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By Cha Monforte
Radio listeners of DXDN (Radyo Ukay) in Tagum City including me expected that the City Council would finally uncork its tit-for-tat rage against the North Davao College-Tagum officials who were already present in yesterday’s session. Still a moderated blowing of one’s top is understandable especially when you’re in your own territory and after being snubbed and spurned by a cabal who made them look like toothless tigers.
Had Councilor Joey Millan and his colleagues not withheld yesterday their verdict of declaring as PNGs (persona non grata) the respondent NDC-Tagum officials, we could have seen how the august body make legislative offensives while they are rightly, and not wrongly, on reasoned grounds. Three times of snobbery, regardless of the delayed reply letter of the NDC-Tagum officials after Wednesday’s deadline and their yesterday’s presence, is a ground too much for a kid who knows an uno-dos-tres warning from a playing elder. We expected not a kid’s glove treatment from the august city council to the respondent NDC-Tagum officials.
Kons. Millan last week threatened he would no longer attend the public hearing on the NDC-Tagum’s controversy on requiring nursing graduates to shell out P10,000 for the nursing review and P7,000 for the mock board exams to be conducted by the school before their school credentials would be issued to them, saying that the NDC officials by snubbing the city council’s invitation thrice and submitting their reply letter beyond Wednesday’s deadline have already waived their right to air their side.
But yesterday the good councilor made a surprising turnaround, successfully convincing his colleagues to hold yet the 7 resolutions contra the NDC-Tagum for 7 days for the school officials to refute why the 7 contra resolutions should not be approved in the next session. Hellow? City Mayor Rey Uy, in wanting to end carnapping and reported kotong activities a day after bishops called for change in governance to stump out corruption in government, beat them in the draw over the weekend by declaring persona non grata the Highway Patrol Group officials and personnel assigned in the territorial highways in Tagum City.
In a brief tangle with Kons. Rey Salve, Kons. Millan stressed he has all been concerned on due process, too, like Salve. He also belabored the point that the 7 NDC contra resolutions were not yet approved, and then the matters were laid on the table for decision by next week. They could have declared the NDC-Tagum officials with persona non grata status on such solidly right and well documented facts. But thanks or no thanks, the city council is peopled, too, by four lawyers including Millan. Ukay’s listening pundits though are left to hear the spectacle as more bark sans bite, though it’s a threatening stick that matters for the NDC nursing graduates and their parents.
But okay, let’s give them the chance- to hear NDC-Tagum’s side within the 7-day breathing period, perhaps within which backroom channeling could be made for a win-win solution, with the possible of restitution on the part of NDC-Tagum, that of allowing their nursing graduates leave their alma mater without strings attached but with the school credentials in wishing them good luck in their review classes and mock board exams at review center or school of their choice, and so due refunds must be done, as quid pro quos in exchange of doing away with the persona non grata tag and the non-revocations of the school’s permits and accreditations from the city and CHED authorities. I don’t preempt, the school officials have also their own story to tell. But pundits remind- the august city council, too, has its own ego- bruised. (For online edition, visit my blog at: http://cha4t.wordpress.com, for comments, reactions e-mail: chamonforte@yahoo.com, or ruralurbanews@yahoo.com)
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