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Wednesday, May 24, 2006
Wenceslao: Attempt to transfer acting CCPO chief
By Bong O. Wenceslao
I am one of those critical of acting Cebu City Police Office (CCPO) chief Melvin Gayotin for his failure to solve the vigilante-style killings in his area of responsibility. But the way people in Camp Crame tried to implement his transfer to the police regional office in Western Visayas smacked of cowardice. Why do it virtually surreptitiously?
Consider these. The transfer was supposed to take effect last May 18 but Gayotin received the order only on May 22. Police Regional Office 7 Chief Silverio Alarcio was clueless about it. Gayotin was not given a specific post (and why Western Visayas?). No name was mentioned to replace Gayotin at the CCPO.
I say the move was cowardly because the haphazard manner it was done means those behind it was afraid of tangling directly with Mayor Tomas Osmeña. Everybody knows Gayotin, for reasons we don’t know, is the mayor’s favorite even if the police official is not qualified to head CCPO. Mess with Gayotin and you mess with the mayor.
I’d rather that the police hierarchy deals directly with Osmeña through the usual process. Give the mayor a list of names to head CCPO. If he does not choose anybody from the list, give him another list and so on ad nauseam, or until he finally makes a choice. I won’t buy the crap that only Gayotin is qualified to be Osmeña’s favorite.
Which reminds me of a similar situation at the Mactan Cebu International Airport Authority whose board of directors know of only two names they think is qualified to be airport general manager: Adelberto Yap and Adelberto Yap. So which is shallow, our pool of talents or the minds of the appointing powers?
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Just like the fire in Sitio Kawayan. I blurted that out when I heard reports that the fire in Barangay Basak Pardo must have been caused by drug addicts. Drug addict was how neighbors described the couple that rented the house where the fire started. The duo allegedly used the house as a drug den and the husband threatened to burn it down.
The same thing happened in 2002 in Sitio Kawayan, Barangay Sambag 2. Brothers who rented a house in our place threatened to burn it down. They were drug addicts. A fire did start in the said house. The blaze razed tens of houses, including our family home. That’s how destructive the drug menace is.
BLOGGING. After struggling with this Internet craze for weeks, I have settled on “Rebelmind” as my blog (the address is cebuano.wordpress.com). Visit the site and read my writings, like I am re-publishing now a special report I wrote in 1993 on the Battle of Mactan.
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