SOME 2,000 members of Balik-Loob Organization (BLO) on Saturday rallied in front of the residential compound of former Pulupandan Mayor Luis Mondia and his brother, defeated mayoralty candidate Samson Mondia, reminding them of their past offenses and called out a communist rebel leader to punish them under his terms.
Eliseo Vicentino, president of BLO, in a press statement said that they also condemn the former mayor “for his failure to liquidate or pay his unliquidated cash advances incurred during his term.”
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Earlier, the town council passed a resolution allowing the Municipal Government to file administrative and criminal charges against Mondia for “unliquidated cash advances” involving P708,892.94.
“We call on Ka Frank and the NPA (New People’s Army) to consider this misdeed as an offense against the people of Pulupandan that needs to be punished,” BLO said in a press statement.
Vicentino recalled that during the 2007 elections, Samson Mondia ran for mayor against the incumbent Magdaleno M. Peña.
To secure their political support, Samson and his brother Luis falsely promised these landless former supporters relocation sites and houses, Vicentino said.
“However, after elections, especially when Samson miserably lost the mayoralty race, the two brothers together with some family members escaped out of Pulupandan, left their contact numbers out of reach, and dropped their supporters like hot potato,” he said.
These people had no one to turn to except to run for help to then newly-elected mayor, Magdaleno M. Peña, who, finding sincerity in their contrite hearts, accepted them as partners in keeping the town clean, peaceful, and progressive, Vicentino said.
“Keep out of the town and local politics for the sake of keeping peace and progress in Pulupandan,” Vicentino said.