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Thursday, August 31, 2006
Editorial: School scam
SCHOOLS in Cagayan de Oro should coordinate with the authorities concerned about the incidence of cell phone thefts happening within their premises aside of course from stepping up security in their campus.
This amid reports that some enterprising persons are posing as teachers and getting away with fooling students into giving their cell phones to them. The technique happens to be used during the examinations of students.
Being unaware of the identities of these impostors the students can hardly argue and thus turn over their units to their regret and chagrin later on. It won't be difficult verifying of course the identities of the impostors if someone bothered to check.
At least now the police know this is happening and would probably take steps to entrap these cheap shmucks and the schools that had been victimized would require any persons to turn over their identifications to the guards to prevent them from escaping so easily.
But then the authorities should go after those who already stole the cell phone units of previous victims if only to serve as a lesson to other would-be robbers that they should not take advantage of the students.
In a related development those saturation campaigns conducted by the city police have proven effective as the city fiesta remained generally peaceful throughout the week that was capped off with a visit from President Arroyo.
Not bad, though the credit may largely go to Deputy Police Director Supt. Antonio Montalba who had been personally leading the saturation campaigns long before City Police Director Supt. Aurelio Trampe issued the directive to do so.
This may have been one of the reasons why con artists and robbers moved up to classrooms to do their dastardly deeds as most of the police characters rounded up are swarthy, uncouth hooligans who can barely speak a word in edge-wise.
At any rate with the arrival of 11 police vehicles donated by the city government, the Cagayan de Oro City Police Office may well be able to undertake more of these saturation campaigns in order not only to reduce criminality but serve notice to what passes as the seedy criminal underworld that their activities won't go unnoticed.
Uncertain
THE likelihood of the Commission on Elections (Comelec) rejecting the millions of signatures gathered by groups like Sigaw ng Bayan to justify the People's Initiative is uncertain at best owing to perceptions that they are merely the conduit of the Palace's grand design to pursue Charter change.
Still the opposition won't take this sitting down and they have decried the millions of fake signatures gathered by the group, which consisted of names from long dead folks-a fairly common practice during elections.
Vigilance is thus the imperative for the Filipino people nowadays as the national government and the opposition move against each other in this ultimately futile and distracting exercise that only serves to polarize the country even further.
(August 31, 2006 issue)
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