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Thursday, March 24, 2005
Mongaya: More unsolved killings
By Anol Mongaya
THE vigilantes are not yet through with their self-appointed task of ridding Cebu City of criminals. They are oblivious to the fact that their activities are giving the local police a bad image.
Their continued operation demonstrates public unhappiness with police ineptness in countering crime. And the unsolved killings prove that the police can’t solve murder cases.
Local police officials should not rest content that the noise against vigilantism seemed to have died down. The Catholic Church, for instance, has refocused its ire to Ligtas Buntis health workers and divide-Cebu advocates. Have you heard priests say they won’t give sacraments to suspected vigilantes or those who may have inspired them?
Anyway, perhaps the Catholic Church leadership has reserved the fire on a variety of issues in sermons and reflections starting today until Easter Sunday.
Still, lesser number of voices protesting the continued killings does not lessen the validity of the criticism.
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It seems the feud wracking Opascor has worsened in the face of obvious moves by a monopoly that has influence on the Cebu Port Authority (CPA) to sideline the so-called workers’ enterprise.
The terminated workers reportedly availed of the services of a lawyer who is close to an avowed Mendoza detractor in their labor case as well as other related cases. In the past, the workers and their leaders would mend their differences and put up a united front against external enemies. But not anymore, it seems.
Opascor detractors are expected to maximize the internal feud to pry open what they believed to be a Pandora’s box of issues that could seriously damage both factions.
What are these issues? Apparently, Democrito Mendoza Sr. believed some manipulation occurred in the 2004 election of the Board of Directors in Cagayan de Oro City where his group lost the majority. However, no manipulation reportedly occurred. Instead, many stockholders believed in the allegations against the Mendozas because of their allegedly profligate lifestyle.
The feud has so worsened that both sides are now trying to oust each other and taking turns in filing cases. The anti-Mendoza faction reportedly sued the corporate secretary and Opascor for the non-distribution of stock certificates and non-transparency of the stock and transfer book. In fact, there are now talks that the stock and transfer book contained illegal entries.
According to the grapevine, the present feud is merely part of moves to clear the way for family members to enter the board.
(superbalita(at)sunstar(dot)com(dot)ph or anol_cebu(at)hotmail(dot)com/ 0917-9761193)
(March 24, 2005 issue)
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