“What is happening to our country?”
By Gonzalo Duque
“I am really surprised, in my more than a century in this planet, this is the first time that a concrete bridge is blown down by a typhoon. Weird!!! Something really is wrong and ugly. Wasteful expenditures of public fund. Someone must have become richer, to say the least.”
That statement came from the Presidential Adviser on Legal Affairs, former Senator and Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile, which he posted in his Facebook page from Cagayan, his home province.
He is correct in saying that something is wrong and ugly. There is wasteful use of public funds all over the country, and we see this most glaringly in places where typhoons have lashed out e.g. Cagayan, Isabela and Ilocos Norte, which were reported to be the worst devastated.
I also understand that the next typhoon ‘Pepito’ will also pummel through Northern and Central Luzon areas, with a wide magnitude and power-packed.
All those things put together remind me of what the late Vice President Emmanuel Pelaez said when he was almost killed in an assassination attempt way back before President Ferdinand E. Marcos was forcibly removed from his throne in Malacanang by People Power.
He asked then: “What is happening to our country?”
This is why in order two avert further damage to our environment and economy, the QuadCom — after all the non-sense circus in the House of Representatives — should focus instead its attention to the real problems of our economy, minimizing graft and corruption, and other more relevant and pressing matters affecting the country.
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The recent opinion of the Department of the Interior and Local Government should put the members of the old majority in the Dagupan Sangguniang Panlungsod, who now belong to the minority bloc, to proper mental and legal posturing.
Instead of the remaining four councilors boycotting or walking out of the SP hall during sessions, it will be good for them if they stay and participate in the proceedings, so they can “suggest” more meaningful and pertinent legislation.
Tama na muna yong pataasan ng ihi ninyo, kasi kayo rin ang kawawa.
I wonder who is advising the old majority members of certain actions they have been taking.
The four remaining opposition members — Honorables Celia Lim, Librada Reyna-Macalanda, Alvin Coquia and Marilou Fernandez — have a duty to attend the sessions.
Otherwise, it will not be far-fetched that administrative cases may also be filed against them for abandoning their duties as public officials.
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With all the legal victories of Mayor Belen Fernandez, it is my hope that the new city hall be finally constructed and finished soon.
Ang city hall dapat matapos na yan during your incumbency, Belen.
Its construction is long overdue.
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