Amigo: P-Noy’s leadership brand

Wednesday, January 25, 2012

ONCE again, President Noy’s no-mercy, no-second-chance brand of leadership came into play with the recent sacking of a top honcho at the National Bureau of Investigation.

Like the Bureau of Immigration, the NBI is a line agency of the Department of Justice wherein former Human Rights commissioner Leila de Lima reigns supreme.

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NBI director Magtanggol Gatdula’s sudden fall from grace emanated from NBI’s co-line agency, the BI, within which he allegedly failed to follow an order from a higher office (most possibly, the DOJ) to turn over an undocumented Japanese national to the BI. He may have the most appropriate first name hereabouts but this time, senior Gatdula never had the opportunity other than to explain on national television his abrupt/summary dismissal tarnished his family’s good name.

But for all intents and purposes, Malacanang’s have all the discretion to decide on anyone it pleases to appoint and “disappoint.”

In his own words, President Noy let the word out to the working media that “the trust is no longer there.”

That five-letter word is all that matters for the administration, no need elaborating that.

But methinks there is something that meets the eye.

“Passable” you may say for that simple crime of failing to turn over an undocumented foreigner as the NBI can easily, for as long as it pleases, re-produce and re-present the warm body of a certain person question.

That is, if this person is still within its immediate reach and if the said person is not one of those high-level wanted list. But if I were senior Gatdula, I would raise the question on that Korean national who allegedly vanished in thin air on BI’s custody.

An alleged drug trafficker, the said Korean national got away with it at the cost of P150 million national tabloids screamed on their front page banners.

Now, it’s no longer a hot copy for newspapers and BI chief Ric David seemingly got away with it unscathed.

Perhaps, that Japanese national possesses bigger significance to Malacañang gleaned on Gatdula’s sudden dismissal and David’s stay order. But P150 million is a lot of money and if there is any reality of this, which benefited from whom?

President Noy furthered stressed “that to me is insubordination. Now, at the end of the day, the head of the principal agencies will be a person who has our trust and confidence.”

“The trust is no longer there.”

Well, we may also say that there may also be no iota of truth to that P150 million pay off.

We rest our case at the moment.

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