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Thursday, May 08, 2003
Cebu news fotogs group condemns Tomas ‘rudeness’
By Charmaine Y. Rodriguez
THE organization of media photographers and cameramen in Cebu condemned the way Mayor Tomas Osmeña berated and drove away Sun.Star photographer Amper Campaña from Cebu City Hall last Monday.
The manifesto of condemnation has yet to be written but in a meeting Tuesday night, members of Lens already agreed on their stand.
“Gawas na lang nga Sun.Star siya, iyang pagkatawo ba. Luoy sad ba nga iyang gi-ingon ato (Putting aside that he is from Sun.Star, he should not have been treated that way as a human being),” Cebu Daily News chief photographer Tonee Despojo told ABS-CBN TV Patrol when asked for comment after the meeting.
Despojo is the vice president of Lens.
Speech
Opposition Councilor Vicente Kintanar Jr. also “condemned” Mayor Osmeña’s action.
In a privilege speech yesterday before the City Council, which is dominated by Osmeña’s allies, Kintanar said the mayor “appears to have no respect for the dignity of a human being.”
The mayor, interviewed earlier in the day, Osmeña refused to comment on the admonition of the Office of the Ombudsman-Visayas to refrain from “arrogance.”
“No comment. Smile na lang,” Osmeña said in his press conference yesterday.
The mayor has accused Sun.Star of being biased against him, as the newspaper is owned by the family of his political rival, former mayor Alvin Garcia.
Kintanar said in his speech that even if Osmeña was admonished by the Office of the Ombudsman for a similar case, the mayor had the gall to do it again. (He was referring to the mayor’s shooing away of a barangay captain allied with the opposition.
“This, in effect, shows that our mayor has no respect at all toward the law and the enforcers of the law,” he said.
“I am not filing any resolution after this. I would just rely on the sense of justice and duty of Director Virginia Santiago (of the Office of the Ombudsman-Visayas). As for this humble representation, it is sufficient to state that I condemn in the strongest terms the shameless act of arrogance of Mayor Osmeña which, sad to note, has become a habit of the mayor,” Kintanar said.
(May 8, 2003 issue)
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