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Friday, August 23, 2002
MICAME: Dirty game of politics
By Rel P. Micame
BICKERING. The bickering between Cebu Gov. Pablo Garcia, Lakas provincial chairman and some stalwarts of the party led by former 4th district congressman Celestino “Junie” Martinez Jr. has reached a point that the party hierarchy must intervene to save the administration political group in Cebu from disintegrating. Lakas stalwart Provincial Board Member Jose Ma. Gastardo suspects that Garcia is cooking up something to oust Martinez allies from the party. According to Gastardo, Garcia has laid the premise for their ouster when they were accused of being disloyal to the party.
Garcia can’t accuse Lakas party leaders allied with Junie Mar-tinez of disloyalty. The Mar-tinez group said that Garcia is the traitor for hobnobbing with opposition Sen. John “Sonny” Osmeña and his alleged support to the Alayon candidates for barangay captains is enough justification for the governor’s expulsion from Lakas. The Martinez group said that Garcia’s explanation that his closeness with Sonny is part of the unification campaign is pure baloney. The governor’s interest is actually to ensure that his daughter, Gwen-dolyn, will be the running mate of John-john Osmeña in the 2004 gubernatorial election.
Garcia can no longer talk to Junie to take his daughter as his running mate. Martinez who ran as Garcia’s running mate in the last election had accused the governor of supporting his rival, John-john. The result in the last gubernatorial election showed that Junie wasn’t carried by Garcia in his bailiwicks.
DIRTY GAME. The youths had a taste of dirty game of politics in the recently concluded Sanggu-niang Kabataan Federation elections. Reports reaching this corner disclosed that SK barangay chairmen were abducted, quartered in hotels and beach resorts and pampered with food and money so they will vote for the candidate for president of the mayor’s choice. The city or municipal mayors will see to it that their candidate will win the SKF presidency as the winner will be a member of the legislative council.
POLITICS. Former Tali-say City Council secretary Emigdio Enjambre Jr. is a victim of political power play. Enjambre who, probably, is a man of City Mayor Eduardo Gullas, was fired from his post by Vice Mayor Lani Abar-quez who insisted on her right to appoint a council secretary of her choice. The vice mayor had declared En-jambre’s post vacant and had invited applicants to vie for the job. Abarquez said that the position of municipal secretary, like those of department heads, was deemed abolished after Talisay was converted into a component city.
Enjambre has all the right to consult a lawyer about his position as council secretary. If he sought legal opinion from City Attorney Aurora Econg, there is nothing wrong with it. Of course, the former council secretary cannot get the City Attorney to defend him in his petition for injunction and damages he filed with the Regional Trial Court.
FREQUENCY CHANGE. I don’t know whether there is something wrong with my radio cassette. When I tuned in to the frequency assigned to ABS-CBN’s station dyAB to listen to Leo Lastimosa’s “Arangkada” program, it was intruded by Bantay Radyo. Why did the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) in Cebu allow this to happen?
The intrusion of dyAB’s frequency by Bantay Radyo has been going on for quite sometime now. Bantay Radyo seemed to occupy a wide frequency range in the radio band.
I suggest that ABS-CBN management formally lodge a complaint with the NTC office in Cebu about the interference and demand that the government agency do something about the problem.
SCRIPTURE READING.Suggested reading of the Holy Bible for today is found in the Gospel according to St. Matthew 22:34-40 “The great commandment,” and for Aug. 24—St. John 1:43-51 “Jesus calls Philip and Nathanael.”
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