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Wednesday, August 31, 2005
Wenceslao: Pretentiousness to the max
By Bong O. Wenceslao
It’s amazing how people suddenly become experts on police operations on hindsight. This is what seems to be happening after vegetable vendor Prudencio Borres killed PO2 Armando Juegos and PO2 Oliver Jamboy before he himself was killed. Instant experts on police operation are now coming out to criticize the laxity of the two cops.
But days, even months before, who would have thought that a domestic trouble alarm would result in the death of responding policemen? No one, not even these instant experts. The same goes for Cebu City Mayor Tomas Osmeña, who favors vigilantes shooting criminals over real police work. Now listen to him talk about police procedure.
I am not saying the police should not learn something from the death of Juegos and Jamboy. By all means the police should heed the lessons well. But if that results in our portraying ourselves as better than Juegos and Jamboy in responding to the kind of situation they were in, then that is wrong. That would be pretentiousness to the max.
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Assuming. That is the word that came to mind when Cebu City Hall made it appear that just because only a few applicants for teaching jobs in the city passed its qualifying exams the quality of the education programs in our schools are poor. Consider the schools mentioned: Cebu Normal University, University of San Carlos, etc.
What does City officials think of themselves, experts? Besides, how scientific was their conclusion? Listen to an official of one of these schools: “Those who applied with the City are only a fraction of our students, so it’s not fair to conclude that training is poor.” Well said. And it’s just another way of saying City officials are, yes, assuming.
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If an Oriental Cebu were carved out of the present Cebu Province, what would be the life of the constituents there? One could get a glimpse of that in the way Oriental Cebu’s leading proponent, Rep. Antonio Yapha, is treating his constituents, even in such a minor issue as the demolition of market stalls in Pinamungajan.
Guy Enriquez, councilor of barangay Poblacion, complained that a market stallholder, his in-law, is now in a quandary on whether he will be given a relocation area and the promised assistance by the Municipal Government.
Enriquez had criticized the Yaphas and in return they are targeting his in-laws. Is this a sign of things to come in “Oriental Cebu”?
TEXTREAX. From Philip Uy of Guadalupe, Cebu City: “Congressmen who are behind the Sugbuak bills are wasting our money. What do they think we are paying them for? We should fire them without pay.”
(khanwens@yahoo.com/0927-2055064)
(August 31, 2005 issue)
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