Going overdrive
THE LORD sayeth in Matthew 11:28: “Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.”
“Lording over the capitol’s affairs” – as those leaflets distributed around by the protesting quarrymen of Balas claim – is Atty. Vivian Dabu, putative provincial administrator and – take a long, deep breath now – acting provincial legal officer, chair of Balas, chair of the bids and awards committee, acting chief of the general services office, in-charge of the provincial engineer’s office, acting chief of staff of the Office of the Governor, etcetera, etcetera.
So apparently overly centralized are the powers at the capitol in Dabu that Senior Board member Cris Garbo was moved to declare that Eddie T. Panlilio is the de facto administrator to Dabu’s de facto governorship.
Friday last week though, at the celebration of the first Aldo Ning Amanung Sisuan (Day of the Kapampangan Language), Panlilio acted very gubernatorial when he proclaimed that he was relieving Dabu of the Balas and BAC chairmanships to “unburden” her of the heavy demands that her multifarious positions carried, and at the same time “hopefully create a win-win situation” on the contentious issue of the protesting Balas boys.
No need to repeat here for the umpteenth time that the Balas boys are clamoring for Dabu’s head, vowing that nothing short of her ouster would put an end to their protest action, now into its fifth week.
“The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord.” So it is written in Job 1:21.
So Panlilio has given Dabu the chairmanship of Balas and the bids and awards committee; so Panlilio has taken them away. So he be praised?
Sorry for Panlilio. His momentous proclamation of Dabu’s relief was met not with any rejoicing but with jaded skepticism.
"It has not really changed anything or will it ever change anything." Scoffed the Balas boys, sneering at Panlilio’s hoped-for “win-win situation” as plain wishful thinking “as long as Dabu sticks to her post as provincial administrator."
“A consuelo de bobo ,” a former Balas supervisor said of Panlilio’s relief of Dabu. “Panlilio is taking us for idiots who can’t see the motives (behind) and meanings of his pronouncements.”
Could I be hearing these things from one of the most loyal of Panlilio’s myrmidons? I asked the Balas ex-supervisor I chanced upon at McDonald’s, Dolores Junction, a stone’s throw away from the office of the Central Luzon Daily .
“Your opinions on the Balas issue, always punctuated with a “bobo,” have really made us a source of ridicule and given us a real bad rep (That stands for reputation, dummy). Especially myself, what with study and learning in my very name. But we are far from stupid, contrary to your prejudgment of us.”
It’s not Dabu, bo…
“Yes, it’s Panlilio. But it’s got to start somewhere. And Dabu is the most visible symptom of dysfunction in the Panlilio administration.”
So, where will it go from here?
“Panlilio is still taking us for fools. After purportedly sacking Dabu from Balas, he announced that he is still open for negotiations with us. He even made us look like we were being belligerent when he said that he and Bro. Ric Miranda waited for us at his office until 10:30 last Thursday morning and we did not show up.” So why did you snub that meeting?
“The fact is we informed Bro. Ric earlier of our decision to forego with the meeting. It is useless to meet with Panlilio as we will only be entrapped anew in that vicious cycle of talking and discussing without really coming to terms or agreeing on anything.”
I heard there is a dialogue Panlilio is setting this coming week with his buddies Harvey Keh and (Isabela) Gov. Grace Padaca of Kaya Natin! and the civil society groups with the Balas situation at the very top of the agenda . So are you attending?
“These non-Kapampangans no matter how well-intentioned they are have no right dipping their fingers in our cause since they have little or no knowledge at all of what we are fighting for."
Now, you are mouthing the lines of the Recall Panlilio petitioners, notably Rosve Henson and Madame Lolita Hizon. So are you shifting from your “reform” gear to get to the higher drive of recall?
“All it takes is a step on the clutch of issues, to follow your analogy, and go really overdrive.”
Touche.
“Lording over the capitol’s affairs” – as those leaflets distributed around by the protesting quarrymen of Balas claim – is Atty. Vivian Dabu, putative provincial administrator and – take a long, deep breath now – acting provincial legal officer, chair of Balas, chair of the bids and awards committee, acting chief of the general services office, in-charge of the provincial engineer’s office, acting chief of staff of the Office of the Governor, etcetera, etcetera.
So apparently overly centralized are the powers at the capitol in Dabu that Senior Board member Cris Garbo was moved to declare that Eddie T. Panlilio is the de facto administrator to Dabu’s de facto governorship.
Friday last week though, at the celebration of the first Aldo Ning Amanung Sisuan (Day of the Kapampangan Language), Panlilio acted very gubernatorial when he proclaimed that he was relieving Dabu of the Balas and BAC chairmanships to “unburden” her of the heavy demands that her multifarious positions carried, and at the same time “hopefully create a win-win situation” on the contentious issue of the protesting Balas boys.
No need to repeat here for the umpteenth time that the Balas boys are clamoring for Dabu’s head, vowing that nothing short of her ouster would put an end to their protest action, now into its fifth week.
“The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord.” So it is written in Job 1:21.
So Panlilio has given Dabu the chairmanship of Balas and the bids and awards committee; so Panlilio has taken them away. So he be praised?
Sorry for Panlilio. His momentous proclamation of Dabu’s relief was met not with any rejoicing but with jaded skepticism.
"It has not really changed anything or will it ever change anything." Scoffed the Balas boys, sneering at Panlilio’s hoped-for “win-win situation” as plain wishful thinking “as long as Dabu sticks to her post as provincial administrator."
“A consuelo de bobo ,” a former Balas supervisor said of Panlilio’s relief of Dabu. “Panlilio is taking us for idiots who can’t see the motives (behind) and meanings of his pronouncements.”
Could I be hearing these things from one of the most loyal of Panlilio’s myrmidons? I asked the Balas ex-supervisor I chanced upon at McDonald’s, Dolores Junction, a stone’s throw away from the office of the Central Luzon Daily .
“Your opinions on the Balas issue, always punctuated with a “bobo,” have really made us a source of ridicule and given us a real bad rep (That stands for reputation, dummy). Especially myself, what with study and learning in my very name. But we are far from stupid, contrary to your prejudgment of us.”
It’s not Dabu, bo…
“Yes, it’s Panlilio. But it’s got to start somewhere. And Dabu is the most visible symptom of dysfunction in the Panlilio administration.”
So, where will it go from here?
“Panlilio is still taking us for fools. After purportedly sacking Dabu from Balas, he announced that he is still open for negotiations with us. He even made us look like we were being belligerent when he said that he and Bro. Ric Miranda waited for us at his office until 10:30 last Thursday morning and we did not show up.” So why did you snub that meeting?
“The fact is we informed Bro. Ric earlier of our decision to forego with the meeting. It is useless to meet with Panlilio as we will only be entrapped anew in that vicious cycle of talking and discussing without really coming to terms or agreeing on anything.”
I heard there is a dialogue Panlilio is setting this coming week with his buddies Harvey Keh and (Isabela) Gov. Grace Padaca of Kaya Natin! and the civil society groups with the Balas situation at the very top of the agenda . So are you attending?
“These non-Kapampangans no matter how well-intentioned they are have no right dipping their fingers in our cause since they have little or no knowledge at all of what we are fighting for."
Now, you are mouthing the lines of the Recall Panlilio petitioners, notably Rosve Henson and Madame Lolita Hizon. So are you shifting from your “reform” gear to get to the higher drive of recall?
“All it takes is a step on the clutch of issues, to follow your analogy, and go really overdrive.”
Touche.
posted by A.Caesar Z. Lacson at 12:52 PM
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
<< Home