Tata Max, My Son Nico Become Instant Millionaire

 

 By Mortz C. Ortigoza

Amused by this 2002 column of the late Max V. Soliven - the quentessential opinion writer during my younger years -- how he became an instant millionaire. Upon reading it I hailed my son Nico to come in my library and asked him how he got hold the 13 million Laotian Kip when he went to Laos last January.

Here's Soliven -- the Maestro in Journalism subject of the late Senator Ninoy Aquino and Speaker Joe de Venecia in Ateneo --:

"It’s easy. All you have to do is fly 1,627 kilometers from Manila to Ho Chi Minh City (which everybody here still calls "Saigon", except for government officials and official documents). It’s a two-hour flight by private jet to Tan Son Nhat Airport. Anyway, Philippine Airlines flies down here three times a week. When you get into town and check into your hotel, exchange US$100 at the cashier’s desk (or at the money changer down the street). Immediately, you get handed Dong 1.53 million. Voila! You’re a millionaire – in Vietnamese Dong. That’s the local currency".

Nico told me that when he went to Laos -- formerly part of Indochina with Vietnam and Cambodia under the yoke of the greedy French colonizer --, he exchanged at the money exchange there his U.S $600 with KIP 13 million.

"Ano uli ang pangalan ng currency ng Laos, Teng?" I asked him.

"Kip," he said.

"Parang bastos naman ang tunog, "Kipyas! hihi," this malicious geezer -writer retorted.

Here's Soliven again:

" In time, you’ll be able to figure out how far your tourist dollar goes. A buck gets you 15,300 Dong. Dong 200,000 equals roughly $18. A million Dong is equivalent to about $70.

Can you expect to pay more for what you buy? Of course. You’re a tourist. You must bargain fiercely. But they deal with you here with pleasant smiles. There are many wonderful souvenirs and works of art to purchase within a two-block radius of your hotel. The Vietnamese, so formidable in war, are also the world’s most consummate artists: They paint, lacquer, do terrific silverwork (though much of their craft comes from Cambodia), ceramics — you name it. They can fake almost everything to perfection, too – including fake Zippo lighters with the emblems of American regiments and units, as if they had been captured by Viet Cong (their Dads) or North Vietnamese Army soldiers on the battlefield".

Photos of Nico (a graphic designer of a U.S company in the Mainland) below when he visited Laos. I mull to go to Vietnam instead of Laos and Thailand and visit those historic places - like Dien Bien Phu, Khe Sanh Combat Base, Hue (for the Battle of Hue during the Tet Offensive), the tunnels, and others when the humiliated French and U.S military juggernauts tangled with the pajama clad, old tire made sandal wearing, and Russian and Chinese AK-47 Kalashnikov assault rifle wielding chink eyed tiny Vietnamese soldiers called NVA (North Vietnam Army as what Saluyot man Tata Max of Ilokoslovakia said) or Vietcong.

 

In 5 P’sinenses Lead Party Lists, Only 2 Wins - Poll

 By Mortz C. Ortigoza, MPA

DAGUPAN CITY – Among the five Pangasinenses lead partylist, only the province’s homegrown party Abono and Kabayan entered the winning circle in the last survey of the Social Weather Station (SWS).

Based on the February 16 – 19, 2025 poll commissioned by Stratbase, Abono Party  and Kabayan entered the winning Top 56 partylist seats for the 63 congressmen from the partylist needed to fulfill the constitutional mandates that twenty percent (20%) of the 313 members of the the House of Representatives should be allocated to partylists. Fifty-six (56) partylists should have won incase election was held on that period and not 63 because 4Ps, Duterte Youth, FPJ Panday Bayanihan, Act-CIS, and Asenso Pinoy got additional seven seats based on the number of 2.6% to 9.61% respondents that voted for them as seen on the table of the pollster.

A party that got 6% or more of the total votes cast for the present 156 party lists that joined for the May 12, 2025 election gets three seats while those that got 4% and 2% of the total votes get two seats and one seat, respectively.

In the survey, Abono got 0.84% (ranked 33-34) while Kabayan 0.84 (ranked 33-34).   Aksyon Dapat, Tulungan Tayo, and API (Abante Pangasinan Ilokano) poorly chalked up 0.41% (ranked 69-71), 0.39% (ranked 74-75), 0.27% (ranked 89-90), respectively.

There are 156 partylists that vie for the May 12, 2025 national and local elections.

Abono Partylist represents the agriculture and marginalized sector especially the population of Pangasinan province. Its first nominee is Congressman Robert Raymund Estrella – a resident of Rosales, Pangasinan -- while its chair and treasurer is Eng. Rosendo O. So.

In the elections of 2007, 2010, 2013, 2016, 2019, and 2022, Abono got 1 seat, 2 seats, 2 seats, 2 seats, 1 seat, and 1 seat, respectively.

Kabayan Partylist represents marginalized sectors of the Filipino community, including the disabled, senior citizens, overseas Filipino workers (OFWs), fishermen, farmers, and the poor.

Kabayan was founded by Ron Salo – a resident of Binmaley, Pangasinan -- in 2009. Salo is the present congressman of Kabayan in the 19^th Congress and he is the first nominee in the May 12, 2025 election.

The first nominee for this year’s election of Aksyon Dapat Partylist is former Alaminos City, Pangasinan Mayor Hernani Braganza. He said – as culled from online data -- that his group initial plan was to create a peace advocacy organization, but his group’s diverse and inclusive platform paved the way for them to run under the party-list system.
Braganza – a former Press Secretary and Congressman -- stated that part of their advocacy was to increase the capacities of public hospitals in the country and also look into reducing the out-of-pocket expenses through the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation.

Tulungan Tayo Party List’s first nominee is Cisco Jay Flores, a media practitioner from Dagupan City. He vowed to introduce bills designed to empower peasants, women, and youth. Its second nominee is JB Acosta of Calasiao, Pangasinan. Acosta’s wife is Pangasinan chain of malls heiress Dagupan City Councilor Irene Lim.

The first nominee of Abante Pangasinan Ilocano (API) is the former Governor of the Province of Pangasinan Amado T. Espino, Jr. while its second nominee is Laoac Vice-Mayor Atty. Nelson Valdez Gayo. In the May 9, 2022 election, API made raves and waves as it got 449, 346 (1.24%) votes while its rival Abono settled for 287, 460 (0.80%). API then was basking on the popularity of the former Governor and his son and namesake who was the governor of the gargantuan province. But after the latter lost to Pangasinan Governor Ramon V. Guico III, API lost its glitter under its congressman Mike Morden and even plunged to the cellar among the 156 partylists that shoved and jostled to be a member of the 20^th Congress. 

The survey asked 1,800 registered voters nationwide and had a margin of error of plus-or-minus 2.31 percent.

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Urdaneta Mayor Kinukutya si DILG Sec. Remulla

 Ni Mortz C. Ortigoza

DAPAT maakysyonan ni Department of Interior & Local Government (DILG) Secretary Jonvic Remulla ang pangungutya sa kanya ng mukhang di natitinag na si Urdaneta City Mayor Rammy Parayno matapos ipadala ni Remulla ang “kabalyera” na pinamumunaan ni Region 1 Police Brigadier General Lou Frias Evangelista at Pangasinan Police Office Director Col. Rollyfer Capoquia at kasama na ang isandaang miyembro ng kapulisan noong madaling araw ng Marso 14 para barikadahan ang city hall at mga satellite offices nito para pigilan na makapasok ang mga isang taong suspendidong si Parayno at ang kanyang pinsan na si Vice Mayor Jimmy Parayno.

STAND OFF. Department of Interior & Local Government Secretary Jonvic Remulla (left) and suspended Urdaneta City Mayor Rammy Parayno.

Pero noong gabi ng Marso 16, nakita si Mayor Parayno sa isang pulong sa Barangay Oltama na tila nagmamayabang na walang epekto ang pag cordon ng mga kapulisan sa munisipyo tungkol sa kasong grave abuse of authority at grave misconduct na pinirmahan ni Executive Secretary Lucas Bersamin noong January 3, 2025. “Ibagak ko edi kayo Barangay Oltama, isuda ti nga man-usar iti munisipyo nga mabalinak nga magpirma eti balay ko. Natalusan yo Apo? Sino nga nakatugaw na mayor nga (inaudible) pipirma iti dokumento iti siyudad na Urdaneta?! Mayor Rammy Parayno!!!,” pagmamayabang niya sa Ilokano.

Sa pagkaintindi ko as non-speaker ng Ilokano, sinasabi ng “recalcitrant” na alkalde na “Kung ayaw siyang payagan na gamitin ang munisipyo puede naman siyang pumirma ng mga opisyal na dokumento sa bahay niya. “Sino ang nakaupong mayor ng siyudad na nakakapirma ng dokumento kundi si Mayor Rammy Parayno!!”. Tama ba ang pagkaintinde ko mga kaibigan?

Sa patuloy na pagiging kapit tuko sa puwesto ng dalawang Parayno at sa patuloy na pagpirma nila sa mga opisyal na dokumento sila ay pwedeng makasuhan ng Usurpation of Authority or Official Functions (Article 177 Revised Penal Code (RPC)) at Falsification of Public Documente (Article 171 (RPC)).

Ayon sa Code ang dalawang batas na ito ay:

·        Usurpation of official functions —Any person who, under pretense of official position, shall perform any act pertaining to any person in authority or public officer, without being lawfully entitled to do so, shall suffer the penalty of prision correccional in its minimum and medium periods. The minimum period of "prision correccional" is one year, eight months and one day to four years. The medium period of "prision correccional" is four years, two months and one day to eight years. 

·         Falsification by public officer, employee or notary or ecclesiastic minister —The penalty of prision mayor (or six (6) years and one (1) day to twelve (12) years) and a fine not to exceed 5,000 pesos shall be imposed upon any public officer, employee, or notary who, taking advantage of his official position, shall falsify a document by committing any of the following acts:

Ang kasong administratibo ng dalawa ay hango sa “OP-DC Case No. K-090 entitled Michael Brian M. Perez vs. Mayor Julio F. Parayno III and Vice Mayor Jimmy D. Parayno” kung saan ni indefinite suspended ni Mayor Parayno si Liga ng mga Barangay (LNB) President at San Vicente Punong Barangay Perez dahil sa June 14, 2022 na Manifesto ng 33 sa 34 na Punong Barangay ng lungsod na ito para alisin siya na LNB President. Matapos sulatan ni Perez ang Office of the National President of the LNB, Office of the Provincial Board sa Lingayen, Pangasinan, at ang DILG, sinabi ni LNB National President Eden C. Pineda sa liham niya noong June 20, 2022 na ang pagtanggal kay Perez “is substantially and procedurally erroneous which renders the same null and void”. Noong Setyembre 2, 2022, sinulatan ni DILG Provincial Director Paulino G. Lalata, Jr. si Parayno na ang pagsuspinde kay Perez sa LNB ay walang basehan.

Ganoon din ang mangyayari sa pag preventive suspension sa mga successors ng dalawang Parayno na mga konsehales sa Sangguniang Panlungsod na, ayon sa source ko, ayaw daw nilang mag acting mayor at vice mayor kahit sinuspende na nang Malacanang ng isang taon ang dalawa. Lahat ng 12 miyembro ng city council ay kaalyado ng mga Parayno.

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Ayon sa source ko na ayaw magpabanggit ng pangalan, kung ang higanteng Pangasinan Provincial Capitol kasama na ang 14 na ospital niya ay merong mahigit kumulang na 7,000 empleyado sa buong lalawigan, ang lungsod ng Urdaneta ay nag eempleyo ng mahigit kumulang na 4,000.

What? Ano?

Kung totoo ito, dapat pa imbestigahan n Maan Guico -- pag nanalo siya sa pagka alkalde -- si Mayor Rammy at mga opisyales ng lungsod kung totoong merong mga ghost workers dito at pag totoo kasuhan sila ng Anti Graft & Corrupt Practices Act.

Wala pa akong ebidensiya kung totoong may mahika diyan sa dami ng mga kawani ng munisipyo pero meron akong column sa Northern Watch Newspaper kung saan sinabi ng isang beteranong alkalde na isang source ng korupsyon ng mga kasama niyang mga mayor ay ang pagdagdag ng mga “multong empleyado”. Ito ang sinulat ko:

“Aside from the corruption taken from the 20% development fund yearly, the mayor can still get his dirty monies from the following below:

-               P54. 6 million kickbacks - P1.4 million in one month or P18.2 million in year that includes the workers’ 13^th Month Pay, or P54.6 million in his three years’ term if out of the 400 public personnel half of them are “ghost” employees who received a P7,000 average monthly salary.

-          “Have you heard about a third class town with 400 workers? According to critics that 400 personnel are bigger than those workers of a city. A first class town in Pangasinan has more than 200 personnel only, how come a third class town has this scandalous number?” another mayor, who asked on conditioned of anonymity, posed to me. XXXX” (How aCorrupt Politico Enriches Himself).

PhilHealth Urges Other Provinces, Replicate GUICONSULTA

LINGAYEN, Pangasinan -  An executive of the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) commended the Capitol’s GUICONSULTA (Government Unified Incentives for Medical Consultations) and urged other provinces to emulate it.

PhilHealth Vice President for Region 1 Dennis B. Adre said in an interview recently that GUICONSULTA is a commendable program that other provinces should replicate and make it as a model project.

“We have been coordinating with our head office to study and evaluate the Pangasinan Business Model and probably adopt and turn it into a policy,” Adre said.

Adre said that Philhealth has been trying to influence policy with actual good practice.

“What we see in Pangasinan, we hope, will be replicated by all the other provinces,” he said adding that Pangasinan is the first to provide counterpart services.

The GUICONSULTA, an exemplary brainchild of Gov. Ramon V. Guico III, was launched in 2024 and aimed to initially enroll at least two milion Pangasinenses.

“The intention is to seek out the 3.2 million population of Pangasinan, get them enrolled into Konsulta and get them to avail of the free services of PhilHealth-accredited facilities, “ Adre stated.

He added that the province’s GUICONSULTA is indeed a welcome development for PhilHealth as it complements the latter’s program by helping them promote the availment of actual services by the members.

Konsulta is an outpatient program of the PhilHealth which started in 2020.

 

“In Pangasinan, we have started negotiating with the province to engage as a whole provincial health network. But we started out by accrediting individual rural health units of the 48 municipalities. Now, they’re organized as one provincial health network,” he said.

Moreover, Adre said that the capitation worth P1,700 is being paid to the partner accredited facilities to include the 14 hospitals operated by the provincial government for actual services or outpatient services rendered.

The Philhealth VP said the P1,700 capitation goes to the member’s laboratory fees. It is also used for maintenance medicines of the member to include antibiotics, anti-diabetes, and hypertension medicines which is in contrary to what detractors claimed about reimbursements
“In the case of Pangasinan, they have come up with an 80-20 sharing scheme which is provided for in a memorandum of agreement signed by and among the 48 municipalities and cities,” he said.

He added that 80 percent is being held in trust by the province in a special health fund as contained in a resolution. On the other hand, the 20 percent goes directly to the LGUs.

In lauding the scheme, Adre said: “What’s striking about the plans of what we call the Pangasinan Business Model is the intention to invest in infrastructure among others.

They intend to invest it into an Apex Hospital. And they intend to upgrade the existing facilities the province to meet the needs of all our members.”

 

As to the P300 being given by the provincial government to enrollees, Adre said it did not come from PhilHealth but from the coffers of the province.

“As of now PhilHealth has not been able to pay for that purpose. Our engagement with them as one whole provincial health network, we have not been able to give even a peso,” he stated.

GUICONSULTA was launched by the province as a counterpart service to Philhealth’s Konsulta program.

Expensive diagnostic procedures like mammogram, for example, is included in the free services along with other laboratory services.

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Mayor Bona Mariing Itinatanggi Vs. sa Pagpapatayo ng Ospital

 

MANGALDAN, Pangasinan - Mariing pinabulaanan ng lady alkalde dito ang kumakalat na alegasyon na siya umano’y humahadlang sa pagtatayo ng ospital sa first class na bayan.

 Ayon kay Mayor Bona Fe D. Parayno, walang katotohanan ang mga paratang at isa lamang itong paninira sa kanyang pangalan ng kanyang mga kalaban.

Wala rin aniyang anumang aplikasyon para sa naturang proyekto ang naipasa sa kanyang tanggapan, at wala ring sinumang lumapit sa kanya upang ipahayag ang intensyon na magtayo ng ospital sa bayan.

Giit ng alkalde, imbes na magpakalat ng maling impormasyon, mas mainam na pagtuunan ng pansin ang pagbibigay ng tapat na serbisyo sa mga Mangaldanian.

Bilang isang dating medical practitioner at isang tagapagtaguyod ng programang pangkalusugan, hindi umano tutol si Mayor Bona sa pagtatayo ng ospital sa bayan. Sa halip, bukas siya sa ideya at naniniwala siyang ito ay isang proyektong lubhang makakatulong sa mga kabaleyang Mangaldanian.

Aniya, kung may mga pribadong sektor o mabubuting puso na nais makipagtulungan sa lokal na pamahalaan upang maisakatuparan ang proyekto, handa siyang makipag-ugnayan at magbigay ng suporta.

Dagdag pa ni Mayor Bona, kung ang proyekto ay para sa kapakanan ng kanyang mga nasasakupan, hindi siya magdadalawang-isip na suportahan ang anumang hakbang na magpapabuti sa serbisyong pangkalusugan sa bayan.

Nagbabala rin si Mayor Bona sa publiko na maging mapanuri sa mga politikong inuuna ang pagpapakalat ng kasinungalingan at akusasyon kaysa sa tunay na paglilingkod sa bayan.

Ayon sa kanya, ang isang tunay na lingkod-bayan ay hindi nasusukat sa kanyang sinasabi kundi sa kanyang ginagawa para sa mga taong pinagsisilbihan niya.

Aminado ang alkalde na nasasaktan siya bilang tao sa patuloy na pagpapakalat ng maling impormasyon laban sa kanya. Kaya naman umaapela siya sa mga nagpapakalat ng mga tahasang paninira at fake news na itigil na ang pamumulitika at smear campaigning.

Patuloy namang nananawagan si Mayor Bona sa publiko na maging mapanuri sa mga impormasyong kanilang tinatanggap at huwag basta maniwala sa mga kumakalat na espekulasyon na walang matibay na batayan. (𝙈𝙖𝙣𝙜𝙖𝙡𝙙𝙖𝙣 𝙋𝙄𝙊)

 

 

H𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗼𝗴 𝗻𝗴 C𝗼𝗿𝗽𝗼𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲 F𝗮𝗿𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗴, I𝗽𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗴𝗽𝗮𝗽𝗮𝘀𝗮𝗹𝗮𝗺𝗮𝘁 𝗻𝗴 𝗺𝗴𝗮 M𝗮𝗴𝘀𝗮𝘀𝗮𝗸𝗮

 

 

Pinangunahan ni Governor Ramon V. Guico III at Manaoag Mayor  Jeremy Agerico Rosario ang pamamahagi ng mga farm inputs, equipment at fishery paraphernalias sa Baguinay Manaog, Pangasinan.

Para sa mga magsasaka at mangingisda, sadyang malaking biyaya ang pakikibahagi nila sa corporate farming program ng pamahalaang panlalawigan kaya labis ang kanilang pasasalamat kay Gov. Guico.

Dumalo rin sa programa si Board Member Jerry Rosario..

Simula nang mailunsad noong 2022 ang Provincial Corporate Farming, lumaki ang kita ng mga magsasaka dahil dumami ang kanilang ani. (Patricia Sevilla, JP De Vera|PIMRO)

Umiinit ang Bangayang Merrera, Rosario sa Binmaley

 

Ni MORTZ C. ORTIGOZA, MPA

BINMALEY, Pangasinan – Tila walang katapusan na ang bangayan ng alkalde at bise alkalde dito matapos magkademandahan uli ang mga tagasuporta ng una at ng bise sa Ombudsman sa mga kasong nasa ilalim ng Anti-Graft & Corrupt Practices Act, Environmental Law, at Oral Defamation.

Ani Mayor Pedro Merrera sa writer na ito na nakademanda uli si Vice Mayor Simplicio Rosario sa Ombudsman dahil iyong P11, 700,000.00 na medical bus na merong medical equipment at mobile generator na binili niya noong alkalde pa siya ay segunda mano pero pinapalabas niya na brand new. Ito ay binili ng local na pamahalaan dito noong ika-6 ng Disyembre, 2021 sa Man Automotive Concessionaires Corporation sa EDSA corner Seminary Road, Bahay Toro, Quezon City.

CONTROVERSIAL BUS. The controversial customized P11, 700,000.00 medical bus bought by then Binmaley Mayor Sam Rosario in December 2021 that became controversial because the incumbent mayor Pete Merrera accused the former of deceiving the people of the town that the vehicle was brand new when it was already a used vehicle. Rosario, now Binmaley’s vice mayor, vehemently denied the accusation that became an administrative and criminal cases now in the Ombudsman when the mayor’s supporters sued Rosario and other officials of the coastal town. 

“Kung titingnan mo nga ang pagawa ay iyong ngang makita Volkswagen (engine), iyon mga iyon parte-parte doon”.

Mariing pinabulaanan ni Rosario ang mga akusasyon ni Merrera nang sabihin niya bago ang medical bus na nag-iisa lang ang klase nito sa buong lalawigan ng Pangasinan dahil puedeng gagawin sa loob nito ang mga minor operation gaya ng X-ray, Electrocardiography (ECG), ultrasound, pagkuha ng dugo, at iba pa.

“Sila ang gumawa ng Man ang makina niyan German, chassis brand new lahat iyon. Tapos sinabi na second hand. Sila ang nagsasabi na second hand, customized iyan!”.

Ani sa website ng Man Automative Concessionaire Corporation (MACC), ang MAN at Volkswagen ay magkasamang kumpanya.

”Binayaran na iyon prior noong binalik iyan (sa Man) noong iyang date naman noon na pagkadeliver, kumpleto iyan. Ngayon sumulat kami ngayon sa Man na bakit ganoon ang nangyari? So it’s not the fault of the municipality it was the fault of the owner of the bus company. Dapat ang magbabayad (ng liquidated damages na P842, 400, 00 dahil sa pagkaantalang pag deliver ng 72 araw) ang planta hindi kami,” paliwanag ni Rosario.

Noong ika-11 Oktubre 2023 ay hinabla nina Leon Cruz Castro, Jr, Lorenzo Mayogba Cerezo, at Julian Edgar Gregorio Javier, mga tagasuporta ni Merrera, sa Ombudsman sa Quezon City si Rosario, Municipal Treasurer Teggie D. V. de Guzman, Josephine F. Anchiboy, retired Police Major Diomedes V. Bonalos, Supply Officer Camille G. Lopez, at Bids & Award Committee Vice Chairman Jeffrey R. delos Angeles ng mga administrative at criminal cases.

Inirereklamo nila ang mga kinasuhan ng Serious Dishonesty, Grave Misconduct, and Conduct Prejudicial to the Best Interest of Service (Administrative Cases), Violation of Section 3 (e) of R.A 3019 (Anti Graft and Corrupt Practices Act), Complex Crime of Malversation of Public Funds Through Falsification (Article 217 in relation to Article 171 of the Revised Penal Code as amended), and Rules and Regulations of R.A No. 9184 (Government Procurement Reform Act) (Criminal Cases).  

Ani Commission on Audit (COA) sa kanyang Notice of Disallowance noong May 9, 2024 kontra kay Rosario: “Corollary, on May 21, 2024, the Office of the Mayor of LGU-Binmaley have received a Notice of Disallowance No. 24-001-100-(23) dated May 9, 2024 (Annexes “G ti G-1”) issued by State Audito IV/ Audit Team Leader Atty. Fausto R. Villanueva, Jr. and State Auditor V/ Supervising Auditor Evangeline R. Picar, both from COA-Provincial Satellie Auditing Office (PSAO) xxx The amount of P842, 400.00 was disallowed in audit as liquidated damages due to incurrence of 72 calendar days (CD) delay in the delivery of one unit brand news medical bus with medical equipment and mobile generator set. Inspection Report for Equipement and Facilities dated January 3, 2023 issued by Regional Office No. 1 Technical Audit Group revealed that the project incurred 72 CD of delay, to wit: XXXX”

“Iyong unang allegation nila mababa daw iyong lower part niya. Kaya binaba iyon dahil sa mga senior citizen para sila makapanhik,” ani dating alkalde Rosario na makakalaban ni Merrera sa darating na eleksyon sa Mayo sa pinaka-mataas na posisyong pampubliko dito.

Ani Rosario sana pinalitan na lang ang pintura at binura na lang ni Merrera ang pangalan niya sa bus para magamit ng mga taga Binmaley.

Si Merrera ay may mga nakaabang rin na mga kaso na sinampa sa kanya ni Rosario sa Office of the President at sa Ombudsman.

“Aburido din iyan dahil baka na received na niya iyong kaso rin niya tungkol sa quarrying. Environmental law ang kanyang problem,” ani Rosario kontra kay Merrera sa Ombudsman.

Ang isa pang sinampang kaso ng dating alkalde kay Merrera ay noong murahin siya noong makasalubong ng huli ang tatlong konsehales dito at pagsabihang: “Sabihin niyo sa Vice Mayor niyo na putang In* siya!”

“Siya iyong minura niya ako kasama siya sa mga anim na konsehal at itong quarrying,” saad ni Rosario sa text messages niya sa writer na ito.

Tinanong ng manunulat na ito si Mayor Merrera kung totoo iyong akusayon ni Rosario na minura daw niya ang huli.

Aniya sinungaling daw ang bise alkalde. “Alam mo ang vice mayor na iyan ay sinungaling marunong gumawa ng istorya. Bakit nandiyan iyan bakit andiyan iyong aking mismong Councilor (Banong) delos Angeles iyan lang naman sabihin niya ang totoo”.

Ang mga taga suporta ni Merrera ay naghain noong mga nakaraang taon ng mga kasong administratibo at criminal kay Rosario, Municipal Accountant Teggie V. de Guzman, Municipal Treasurer Josephine F. Anchiboy, at acting Municipal Treasurer Leo V. Fernandez sa Ombudsman dahil sa double payment sa concrete slab ng isang multi-purpose building na ipinatayo ng Department of Public Works & Highway.

Sa Order ni Ombudsman Margie G. Fernandez Calpatura of the Preliminary Investigation, Administrative Adjudication and Prosecution Bureau – C noong February 2, 2024, inuutusan si Rosario at mga kasamang akusado na mag hain ng verified petition position papers sa grave misconduct case na merong Docket No. OMB-L-A SEP 23-0162.

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I am a twenty years seasoned Op-Ed Political Writer in various newspapers and Blogger exposing government corruptions, public officials idiocy and hypocrisies, and analyzing local and international issues. I have a master’s degree in Public Administration and professional government eligibility. I taught for a decade Political Science and Economics in universities in Metro Manila and cities of Urdaneta, Pangasinan and Dagupan. Follow me on Twitter @totoMortz or email me at totomortz@yahoo.com.