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Thursday, October 20, 2005
Road was not closed?
By Cheking Seares
News(boy) Sense
People expected the mayor to say he will respect the court order but will appeal the ruling.
That's expected from a loser in a lawsuit who privately gnashes teeth over the result but is gracious enough to accept it publicly.
But people didn't expect the mayor to say, "I never closed the road in the first place."
Cebu City Mayor Tomas Osmeña closed the south coastal road, blocked it with Kaohsiung buses and fielded hard-core cops to watch, thumbed down calls to re-open from Cardinal Vidal, Gov. Gwen Garcia, and town mayors, ignored editorials and columns in print and broadcast, fought a lawsuit and will continue to fight it on appeal---AND THE MAN NOW SAYS HE NEVER CLOSED THE FREAKING ROAD!?!
All for naught
At first, I thought he was kidding (for a mayor he kids a lot) but then he went on to say "thousands and thousands of commuters will testify" that he never closed it. He just regulated it, he said.
Cebu commuters went through a lot of traffic hell for six months and here's the guy responsible for it saying that he never did it.
Unbelievable.
All those pleas from other leaders, the appeals to the Great Road Owner. The arguments in court. All the inconvenience, fits of road rage, economic cost of litigation and transportation. The print space and airtime spent. They were all for naught.
The mayor says he did not close the blasted road.
I'm out of here.
(October 20, 2005 issue)
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