TALISAY City Mayor Gerald Anthony "Samsam" Gullas has already been fuming over the continuing lack of water supply in his city. He must have fumed some more when MCWD officials who were scheduled to meet with him Wednesday (December 2) did not show up and the mayor was told they were away on vacation abroad.
There must have been a miscommunication somewhere because the mayor, along with his department heads and the city's barangay captains, waited and waited for the MCWD officials, only to learn later that the water district top people were traveling to Singapore and Japan.
'False promise'
It was improbable that the MCWD officials forgot about the appointment or, worse, intentionally snubbed the leaders of one of the LGUs the water district serves.
It would have been the first dialogue between MCWD and the newly created Talisay Water Management Council. "Nang-Indyan man!! Kinsay ka-relate???" Gullas wrote on Facebook, the multiple exclamation points and question marks included. Samsam ranted about "false promise" and "professional courtesy."
Mayor Samsam did not specify who of the MCWD officials he was referring to: the acting general manager and the remaining three directors or the acting GM and the interim board? Who are actually running the water district now?
Mabatid on women 'victims'
Cebu City Councilor Niña Mabatid, chairwoman of the City Council committee on women, children and family affairs, appears incongruous when accused of attempting to dissuade three women City Hall employees from suing a division chief who allegedly sexually harassed them.
In news reports, she denied the alleged "fixing" of the case against the official concerned by her alleged prodding of the women to withdraw their complaint. The official was one of her top campaigners in the last election. Besides, she said, there was no case to withdraw. At the time, she said it, there was none yet but the complaint had since been filed.
Well, her Facebook post of December 1 offered another reason: "'Alleged victim' means it's not yet proven by court. Some are telling the truth but forget some are just playing victims. Let truth prevail until the last verdict."
Meaning that for now (or as of December 1, 4:26 p.m.), Mabatid thinks the women complainants could be just "playing victims" and she believes the alleged sexual harasser over the alleged women victims until his guilt is proved in court.
She is not anti-women, she just does not think the three City Hall women employees are real victims.
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