Oct 13-19, 2011
BLOGISTA
By Cha Monforte
I first thought that a bacchanalian lunch was readied for the kibitzers the last time the local media tried to do a paparazzi during the National Electrification Administration (NEA) hearing on the allegations leveled against the former Daneco OIC GM Allan Laniba. We saw the Daneco boardroom full of pina barongs wore by who else but the directors. When we tried to sneak into the boardroom inside Daneco Tagum office we were told that the media was not allowed to cover the NEA hearing. That was the time that the NEA panel was about to arrive in Tagum, fresh from Manila. We did not protest. It was simply the prerogative of the investigating NEA panel to bar the local media from listening the proceedings of the hearing. When we were still waiting, board president Dean Briz and current OIC GM Engr. Felix Hibionada were simply cool and receptive to the media’s presence. When the side of the spectrum was still not tilted to their side over two years ago, I mean the Briz & Co., they pledged transparency. Without the media’s coverage, the power consuming public would not know what’s happening to their billionaire power cooperative. We hope there would be no silence as to the Anova/Inova/Anonovo/Anonobo? (ano ba yan?)case. We heard about that feasibility study on power generation out from our garbage and waste already funded by Daneco. Hope this wouldn’t loosen their tight command and control over Daneco. But good that the Briz-led board of directors had bared information and gave replies to media’s queries about that “leaking” Asuncion sub-station. Maybe they could also shed light on this anonobo ano ba yan? deal. The talk was the consultant was paid with a hefty amount from Daneco coffers, something like P750,000 for the feasibility study. Now is the time of the fine gentlemen- OIC GM Hibionada and Daneco board president Briz to talk about what is that anonobo ano ba yan? Daneco case. Or the former Daneco OIC GM and IS Department head Allan Laniba might do the talking while he’s being suspended anew.
Where is Cong. AGR now? He’s been a sought-after figure in Davao del Norte. The people missed him when he went to US for chemo and stem cell transplant. They were happy that their representative was healed of his hodgkin lymphoma cancer. But who knows there would be another relapse? We’re just humans and mortals. Heavens forbid. After the Davao del Norte founding anniversary last July we particularly did not see him anymore in the Kapihans or Bulwagan. Maybe he’s catching up works in Congress given that he was not there one full year. I remember that former Cong. Lorenzo “Enchong” Sarmiento, the patriarch, used to visit his district in Comval (D1) almost every weekend when he still had good health and stamina. I heard that former Davao del Norte District 1 Cong. Arrel Olano used to jetset every Friday night or Saturday morning just to be in his home in Tagum every weekend. May bahay naman ni kuya si Cong. Anthony del Rosario in Visayan Village, along the national highway.
We’ve heard of two boardmembers in Davao del Norte being asked this early to go back running for Tagum City Council by 2013 via the ruling LP party boat. The city council has last-termer Konsehales Tete So and Joedel Caasi and Konsehala Mylene Baura. So that So, Baura and last-termer Vice Mayor Allan Rellon would have vacant LP slots for boardmember by 2013, Boardmembers Joey Millan and Vicente “Enting” Eliot were accordingly prodded to go back to the City Council. The problem for now, a wag said, is that BM Millan was unmoved of the raw proposition, thus sending a message to a top political honcho that the issue should not be talked about this early. In short, BM Millan is opposing the raw political proposition. Our source did not talk about the reaction of BM Eliot. In my early interview, Caasi said he’d be better off working in the City Hall under a future Mayor Oyo Uy. Can BM Millan afford to rebel in the last hours against the top political honcho who made him who he is now, politically? The influential honcho is no other than Mayor Rey Uy. Maybe BM Millan can rebel- knowing his high-rated legal education radio program over K95 FM. But maybe there’s just high and fast air at the moment, and fantacizing. As to Konsehala Baura, she’s being considered to be Oyo’s tandem given her vast women’s votes, but as of presstime Mayor Uy isn’t yet revealing his choice. Maybe the good mayor can do a Duterte (read: run for vice mayor). But in my earlier interview with him, he said he would be better off planting trees and be plain citizen so ordinary people would ask him to join with them in their breakfast when he’d be visiting the communities he had served. Konsehal Baura has one vacant BM slot in the LP for District 1 as BM Dr. Fred de Veyra belongs to Lakas-Kampi-CMD when he alone survived in the harsh political onslaughts delivered by Gov. RDR- Mayor Cee O-Vice Gov. Baby Suaybaguio-Cong AGR-aligned LP formidable machine against the loner, former Cong. Arrel Olano-aligned Lakas butitingoy candidates in the last polls.
Tadeco has embarked into cavendish banana plantation in Pantukan. One Pantukan wag has speculated that the Tadeco might back up candidates in the coming polls knowing its political tradition since the last Marcos era with the political kingpinship of Don Antonio Floirendo Sr. But that is in so far as Davao del Norte is concerned. The wag says that Tadeco is already growing export bananas in Pantukan in more 300 hectares. Well, that depends on Antonio Jr, Tonyboy, former congressman of Davao del Norte, second district, if makisawasaw siya sa politika sa Pantukan or Comval for that matter. But what is sure is that 2013 Pantukan candidates would really knock on the Tadeco doors for political funding for quid pro quo reason. But remember that Comval is once part of the old, undivided Davao del Norte and the Floirendo patriiarch kingpin, the known “White Hair” or “Apo” did have his heyday before – in the making and unmaking of politicians in the old Davao del Norte, now Comval included. (for reactions, e-mail: chamonforte@yahoo.com, txt 09392218348)
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