Sunday, March 6, 2011

When the Wolves Guard the Henhouse

A glaring sign of the sheer incompetence of our student council in MalacaƱang:

They appoint a Land Transportation Office (LTO) chief who's being investigated for being in cahoots with carnapping syndicates.

I have something to add to their decrepit vocabulary: VETTING.

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A simple case of vetting with the Justice department or the Ombudsman would allow them to discover that Asst. Secy. Virginia Torres of LTO had pending cases related to the registration of possibly stolen cars. Apparently, student councils are ignorant of vetting. Betting siguro marunong sila.

For all the hits (DPWH Secy. Singson, DOJ Secy. De Lima, DFA Secy. del Rosario), there have been an awful lot of misses (retaining DFA Secy. Romulo, DILG Usec. Rico Puno, ES Paquito Ochoa). Mr. President, while you need people you can trust to serve you, you don't need retards either.

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We want something to come out of the Senate investigations into anomalies in the AFP. Wala nang EO 464 and more importantly, we have a cooperating executive. There's absolutely no excuse for you guys this time.

As for the current impeachment proceedings, there is also no excuse to not prosecute Ombudsman Gutierrez for her errors of omission and commission. I'd like to commend the House Justice committee for trying to do this right, not unlike the way they did it in 2001 for fmr. Pres. Estrada. They should act as prosecutors to gather evidence against the Ombudsman and not do it in the Senate. Good luck!

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