NEWS: Uy warns: “Magkahiyaan gyud ta” if alleged kotong cops will be back in highways

nov 6

Tagum City Mayor Rey Chiong has warned anew to unnamed officials and personnel of Highway Patrol Group whom he had earlier declared as persona non grata never again to make checkpoint even as the latter’s presence has already vanished from the city’s highways since Monday, said an ABS-CBN TV Patrol Mindanao report yesterday afternoon.

“Magkahiyaan gyud ta,” he said if the censured group would be seen again manning the city’s highways.

In the same report, police inspector Raul Marante, HPG head, said that they were really surprised of the mayor’s letter that put the group in persona non grata status for alleged kotong (extortion) activities.

A DXDN Radyo Ukay report also yesterday said that the group strongly denied the mayor’s accusation that they have been engaging in kotong activities, quoting the provincial police director PSSupt. Benilito Bianzon.

A Periodico Norte report also said yesterday that Bianzon had immediately conducted an investigation when he received the mayor’s letter and directed the members of the group to follow the mayor’s demand for them to immediately pull out from the city’s highways.

Bianzon likewise warned police personnel deputized by the Land Transportation Office not to engage in extortion or face dismissal from service.

On Monday, Uy called on cargo truck drivers and operators not to stop in case HPG personnel would try to flag them down.

The mayor sent his letter dated October 29, 2008 addressed to P/S Supt. Ernesto Tesoro Jr, regional chief of the Highway Patrol Group XI based in Davao City, after receiving a number of complaints coming from the drivers and operators of cargo trucks with the information that the Tagum group has been allegedly soliciting toll fees before one can be allowed to pass the national highway of the city.

In the letter, Uy declared persona non grata to the said group and demanded for their immediate pull out from the city’s highways. (Cha Monforte/Rural Urban News) http://ruralurbanews.blogspot.com

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OPINION: Bruised ego

BLOGISTA
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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NEWS: Mayor Uy declares persona non grata to highway patrol group for alleged kotong

Demands their immediate pullout

nov 3

Tagum City Mayor Rey Chiong Uy has declared as persona non grata the unnamed officials and personnel of the Highway Patrol Group assigned in the city’s highways for allegedly engaging in kotong (extortion) activities victimizing drivers and operators of cargo trucks passing the city.

In a strongly worded letter dated October 29, 2008 and addressed to P/S Supt. Ernesto Tesoro Jr, regional chief of the Highway Patrol Group XI based in Davao City, Mayor Uy said that “his office received a number of complaints coming from the drivers and/or operators of cargo trucks passing the National Highways of Tagum City with the information that there are robbers in uniform, referring to the National Highway Patrol Group, soliciting TOLL FEES before one can be allowed to pass the National Highway of Tagum City” .

The mayor lamented stating “that said public officials are the ones to break the law and losing the trust of the general public”.

“(This) surely produces unpleasant sound to everyone’s ear. We have to stop this ‘kotong’ (extortion) victimizing some of our constituents,” he said.

“It is my submission that matters and activities pertaining to carnapping and stability of peace and order in the highways of this City can be well handled and taken cared by the Local Government of Tagum,” the mayor added in his letter.

Invoking his city’s “commitment in maintaining viable, efficient and dependable transportation system for the economic development and progress, he as a city mayor, manifested that said “personnel and officials of Highway Patrol Group assigned in the National Highways of Tagum are declared PERSONA NON GRATA.”

He thus asked the higher command of the Highway Patrol Group to pull out the said group from the territorial highways of the city.

Mayor Uy’s letter stated copies furnished to President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, Davao del Norte Governor Rodolfo del Rosario and Provincial Police Director PSSupt. Benilito Bianzon (Cha Monforte/Rural Urban News) http://ruralurbanews.blogspot.com

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