TE’EM NA! 2
During our Katon years, we were akin to cherubs in many ways. Our very young lives were fairytale-like then, I would say, not because of our Maestra’s magic wand but because of our innate childhood innocence.
When I was a Grade-2 pupil at the Buhi Elementary School, the Riprap behind the school campus became my arena and short-time-day spa or resort of sort.
To escape from the manual chore of grass cutting in our assigned patch in the school ‘bull-ground’ my newfound-truant friends and I would surreptitiously ‘escape’. ‘Mageskip kita sa Riprap’ (Let’s play truant at the Riprap.).
Through a secret hole in the thick-bamboo-twig (kagingking) fence we’d cross the forlorn dirt-road shored up by a high-concrete-riprap embankment spanning perhaps 40-meter long. Down the Riprap wall’s low portion we would go down to the then pristine part of the Rinaga’ river for a cool-river dip amidst the fast-setting sun.
The Riprap was to boys mainly a trying place of their budding manliness. A classroom dare from another boy – ‘Sa Riprap kita! Eskwir sana.’ (See you at the Riprap mano-a-mano!). Thus for many of a boy like me, our ‘manly’ initiation at the Riprap in settling disputes with brute force and violence came to be.
Lately, a new Riprap has wormed into our community sensibilities. This time no one seems to be able to make sense of it!
While there obviously is a riffraff of corrupt government officials, functionaries or private contractors who obviously botched up the Rinaga River riprap project our extant concerned local government officials and functionaries are obviously unwilling to do something about this.
This is in spite of massive evidence some links of which were posted in Buhi Online Facebook and You Tube by concerned citizens such as:
HOW COULD A 45 MILLION WORTH OF FLOOD CONTROL STRUCTURE AT RINAGA RIVER (POPULARLY KNOWN AS RINAGBA RIVER) RAVAGED AND DESTROYED BY A FLOOD COURTESY OF TYPHOON REMING?
TESS DE LIMA’S PERIODICO SA RADYO COMMENTED ON MAYOR LACOSTE’S FATE AND THE 45 M RINAGA RIVER PROJECT ANOMALIES…
When I posted the link several months ago for the Philippine Commission on Audit’s (COA) Fraud Report site and asked at least for information on the project name and other details so BOL can itself file the COA report, the twits stopped all of a sudden.
Surprisingly or perhaps not so surprisingly, the blog I wrote with the same title last year in October got merely a lukewarm reaction with one comment to date coming from Tagasi’rip who obviously uses only a pen-name.
But again last week when the BOL Facebook posts became alive with election issues, the Rinaga’ River riprap scam once again became an active issue in the discussions. New accusations surfaced on BOL Facebook though from an anonymous person using the pen-name Anthony Francisco.
Though Anthony Francisco’s earlier posts were taken out or deleted already by BOL, his persistence coupled with the lack of BOL Facebook FAN ‘reporting’ his posts as inappropriate, BOL decided to let his succeeding posts remain. BOL feels that it cannot justly block his posts permanently until it gets sufficient feedback or ‘reports’ that would warrant it to do so.
The nagging question though is: will we ever get a response or positive action from our local public officials to look into this obvious issue of public-project mismanagement and even the corruption of public officials or what mudslinging candidates of earlier elections refer to as KICKBACK!
The least that I personally could ask from the only openly-identified currently-serving public official of Buhi LGU active in BOL Facebook the Honorable Councilman Edwin Salvamante is his indulgence to bring the clamor of many in BOL Facebook particularly to get the official stand of the incumbent elected officials of Buhi in this issue including the Municipal Council of which he is a member of.
My previous blog with the same title TE’EM NA way back in October last year raised many questions on the Rinaga’ River project and floated suggeted action particularly for the Municipal Council.
Will we ever get answers to these?
Kin indi’ mageskip n asana ako sa Riprap, maray pa… Ay inda baga?
MABALOS,
Al Claveria
March 5th, 2010 at 2:23 PM
ana unga didi kung si mayor tatao mag internet? ta base sa blog mo si kagawad salvamante sana ana nakakabasa sa buhi online. di ta maidiyar na kadaklan sa nga taga buhi lalo na u mga kagurangan di tatao mag internet. mas maray siguro na iluwas mo adi sa paagi nin papel tanganing mabuhay utro ana usipang adi bago mauda sa kamalayan lalo na sa mga jovenes na paryo ko. magayon ana saymong nga blog na concern sa buhi. dapat ngani magdalagan ikang kagawad para mas maipaabot ag maipaglaban mo adi. o kaya mag lobby ika sa municipio para mapressure ana mga kagawad. Diyos Mabalos ag more power saymo!
March 8th, 2010 at 9:17 PM
I STRONGLY AGREE WITH AL CLAVERIA..GURANG NA AGIN PA = ULIANON…ANA ISSUE DIDI BOKO KIN SI MAYOR TATAONG MAG-INTERNET O SI EDWIN NAKAKABASA SA BUHI ONLINE, KINDI MALALINAW NA PI-DISKUTER NI AL ANA SILAG NA KAMTANGAN NIYA NA RINAGA RIVER NA KIN TAYNGA TA UDA KONKRETONG AKSYON ANA LACOSTE ADMINISTRATION PARA PAIMBISTIGARAN, KOREHERAN O PERSIGURON KIN SISAY ANA RESPONSABLE SA LINUGAW AG NILUTO NA PROYEKTO DYAN SA RINAGA RIVER…NO NEED NA MAGKANDIDATO SI AL PARA MARUNGOG ANA SAKANYANG SIDE, TA ADING BUHI ONLINE NA USAD IYA SA NAGMUKNA, TAMANG NAGITARABANGAN TANGANING ANA BUHI DI PAG-ABUSOHON NIYA NA MGA PUBLIC OFFICIALS NA INCOMPETENT AG TRAPO…AKO MISMO, PABOR AG NAGIUMAW SA DEMOKRSYA AG ADBOKASYA NIYA BOL ONLINE…MEANING, AGKO BUHAY ANA SATON NA BANWAAN, TA KIN ADING MGA GUSTONG MAGING OPISYAL NIYA BANWAAN DI NA BASANG GUSTONG TUYAWON, O ONION SKIN..PWEDE BA, DI NA MAG-ADA ADA NA MAGKANDIDATO..SA OPSIPON MAN NA PAG-LOBBY, NO NEED PADI, SILAG AG VERY OBVIOUS NA NARAGBA U FLOOD CONTROL INFRA? GUSTONG SABYON KIN UDA PALAN MAG-LOBBY UDA NA BASANG SIRA GUIBOHON? UNONG KLASENG MGA PUBLIC OFFICIAL NA AGKO KITA? MGA TUROG SA PANSITAN? DA IBANG ISI KINDI MAGKUBRA NIN SWELDO AG MAG-TRAVEL SA PALAWAN? AKO MISMO BILANG TABANG KIN MAMUYA SI AL, IPA-XEROX KO ADING SAKANYANG ARTICLE TA IBARIWAS KO SA BUHI, IKA ULIANON UNO MAN ANA MAITATABANG MO?
March 8th, 2010 at 11:10 PM
MABALOS TONIKOY ag sa nga’min a subscribers didi sa BOL ag sa mga FANS nya BOL Facebook!
You have all my support and permission if you want to broadcast any material in both BOL sites to our townmates in hard-copy version, with proper acknowledgement of source and authorsip – which I hope will increase participation in BOL and add more force to BOL’s advocacies.
Al Claveria
March 9th, 2010 at 2:38 AM
Nguwan ko pa sana naleég ading blogspot mo Al (maku-ama), manenged sa isyung pitokar didi kaypwan talaga nin aksyon niya publiko para ireklamo ading anomalya adi, tama ika ag si taga-sirip ag si tonikoy na dapat mag-poon ana aksyon sa mga nanenegdan sa sa’ten na banwaan, taynga ta da aksyon? ay siguro kaiba sira sa nakinabang…ading isyu esad ading dapat tukaren nguwan na eleksyon kin uda nangyayari sa lobby o kin da pa nagpresentar nyadi sa konseho, i-unga ta sa mga kandidato ana sa kandang posisyon didi…dapat cguro mag-kaagko kita nin petition paper para maaksyonan adi, ako suportado ko ana ono man a magiging aksyon sa bagay adi…panahon na magin inbwelto ana publiko para labanan ana mga katiwalian sa gobyerno…
March 15th, 2010 at 2:00 PM
@ anthony francisco, tama ika padi talagang turog sa pansitan ana mga opisyales ta sa konseho. sa ngowan pumayag na si kgg. al claveria na ipaxerox mo ading artikulo niya. sana maipaxerox mo na adi tanganing mabasa nyana mga taga buhi. tanganing magisong na sira ngamin. ana maitatabang ko man eh ipadagos na ipabalingibog ading issue na adi sa paaging pagistorya habang kami nagi shot shot.
keep up the good work KGG. Al Claveria ag ki tonying isko magpuon na ika magxerox amo!
March 16th, 2010 at 12:53 PM
Uno na Tonying Isko? Anthony Francisco? naiprint mo na ba ading artikulo ni KGG. Al Claveria? malinaw na sinabi mo na sa paaging pagpaxerox ididistribwer mo adi as tabang mo sa buhi. da pa baga ako nakikitang mga xerox copy o newsprint. puro palan sana ika ngawngaw! gibohon mo yu sinabi mo tonying. burat na basang ako kakabalingibog.
March 30th, 2010 at 3:08 PM
My name is Piter Jankovich. oOnly want to tell, that your blog is really cool
And want to ask you: is this blog your hobby?
P.S. Sorry for my bad english
March 31st, 2010 at 5:24 PM
Thank you for asking Piter. This is one of my hobby and you have good English.
I wish I could make it more than just a hobby.
I presume you are Russian?