UNDER FIRE Presidents has since been the modern-day Joan of Arcs after every political mishap
WHEN P-NOY DELIVERED HIS FIRST State of the Nation Address (SONA), much of what little remains in his government went through an inventory of derogatory reports from the previous administration in that just hours after enumerating it in his Address some of the institutions involved in the mess immediately reconstituted in their ranks a systems and management audit, to open somehow the floodgates of change that has been funneled from the populace in almost a decade.
Needless to say, the province of North Cotabato isn't exactly exempted from the clothesline of this recent management scrutiny, since it has parlayed itself from the same stack of system from its former characters in governance mostly responsible of its unfinished businesses. It still has, by and large, the same group of players constantly playing their perennial zone defense from its offensive connotations.
The same connotation that even the business of cows and carabaos couldn't escape the stampeding horde of accountability demanded of this new government. In a 2008 Commission on Audit (COA) report on livestock purchases, particularly in its animal dispersal project, the province has a staggering budget of 32.6 Million from the general fund for this program alone, and specifically generating more than 70 heads of livestock for the indigent farmers of North Cotabato. However, only a measly 10 Million worth of aid was released by its major comptrollers following the approval of its original budget, and even then, it wasn't able to survive the relentless nagging as the Governor, herself, somehow got lost in translation after seeing the extent of unliquidated dealings from its shady beneficiaries.
Legend has it that those who were able to secure a portion of that 10 Million worth of help, such as owning a single animal in a short list of cows, carabaos, pigs and goats, wasn't exactly satisfied by its manual labor, since much of those beasts were either too wild, untamed, easily frightened or sick, enabling some of those farmers to cry foul over its intended purpose. The trust fund, which was supposed to be given as a supplemental budget from its dispersal provisions, and was worth more than P1 Million in its original understanding, simply collapsed along with the rest of the creatures as its designated officer, himself, in-charge of all the program implements, is still reportedly recuperating from its purported sick leave.
Somehow the strains we have been experiencing lately in securing a smooth transition from the damages of that old system into a much more delineated one has consumed the politics of our present dispensation. In as much as we maintain that we should, at all times, condition ourselves to "move on", to let things pass as they are, or even share a positive outlook amid our financial and social quandaries, that an unliquidated transaction is still an unliquidated transaction even over the dam and under the bridge. From that barefooted farmer off the plains of Midsayap all the way through that crafty tiller in the rugged terrains of Makilala, these supposed livestock should have been part of the landscape and not just a last minute auxiliary in its organization as far as its distribution is concerned. The possible damages of which will not only affect the already precarious rationing of goods in the entire province, but will also influence a sustained cut right in through the veins of our gross domestic product, such a profound loss to a continually receding economy.
Our country, no matter how sophisticated our political execution has become, is still very much antiquarian in spirit. In Southeast Asia alone, ours is a system that still places its bet within the limits of our manual mode of harvesting, at least in most of our farmers in the outskirts of our major thoroughfares. Even the National Food Authority (NFA), over the years, which serves as a springboard of major rice distributions in the country is among the many that is in danger also of collapsing along with the tribe as corruption, aside from pests, has invaded not only those farms, but in its warehouses as well, i.e., allegedly dealing and eventually storing illegally-procured sacks of rice at their disposal. And if that same phenomenon has now plagued the province's intended beasts of burdens, it will, in no time, and as fast as its midnight dealings would go, bear a cutting stigma, that those responsible for the implementation and distribution of this livestock isn't exactly kind to those animals, or more appropriately, to one another.
Just as this Tambucho Killings ( dogs to die of asphyxiation in some sort of makeshift gas chamber out of a vehicle's tambucho) continue to haunt some of our domestic animals, especially in our own canines, as it intends to create an unwanted pet cemetery at the expense of getting rid of these stray dogs, that this not-so-new style of cruelty to animals and farmers as well seemed bent of making it on their own, regardless of its lousy consequences, just to accommodate political relatives of executive privilege, nepotism and "what are we in power for" attitude.
Pulse Asia, just days after the ascension of Noynoy Aquino as president, enumerated in its series of surveys a list of unliquidated transactions of the previous administration from various government offices; anomalous funds straight from the local government units, ill-conceived projects of DPWH, NAPOCOR accused of being politically-dictated and some hefty allowances and questionable bonuses of government secretaries. One need not to stretch ones eye to survey the extent of polarization of both development and deterioration in our communities, a situation that is quite unimaginable perhaps in the midst of a dictatorship almost four decades ago, it has intensified even more so as cronies of that grand old lipunan are now enjoying new renditions of recognition from the chairs of the LGUs to the cozy halls of the Senate.
It wouldn't be surprising that in the succeeding days the provincial government will have to find alternative means to reestablish itself, even breaking away totally from its old ties, as it confronts insurmountable gray areas such as in the case of this sneaky slaughtering of livestock since 2008, and start conditioning itself as it attempts to feed the increasing number of hungry mouths in North Cotabato.
"It is important to understand the current state of local governance and the financial position of the province as this would define our ability to deliver our commitments and pursue our advocacy," the Governor said in her inaugural speech. But by the looks of it, Mendoza will definitely find her hands full, even in this herd alone, before she could actually stand and deliver the goods to her constituents. She will have to go through a gauntlet of already defined procedures from the previous administration, and to determine not only the inherent utilities of its dispersal programs during the course of her inventory and investigation, but in segregating also the politics involved in it.
You may change a cow's name, but it remains a cow. Otherwise, you can be kind and call it in its general term.
Needless to say, the province of North Cotabato isn't exactly exempted from the clothesline of this recent management scrutiny, since it has parlayed itself from the same stack of system from its former characters in governance mostly responsible of its unfinished businesses. It still has, by and large, the same group of players constantly playing their perennial zone defense from its offensive connotations.
The same connotation that even the business of cows and carabaos couldn't escape the stampeding horde of accountability demanded of this new government. In a 2008 Commission on Audit (COA) report on livestock purchases, particularly in its animal dispersal project, the province has a staggering budget of 32.6 Million from the general fund for this program alone, and specifically generating more than 70 heads of livestock for the indigent farmers of North Cotabato. However, only a measly 10 Million worth of aid was released by its major comptrollers following the approval of its original budget, and even then, it wasn't able to survive the relentless nagging as the Governor, herself, somehow got lost in translation after seeing the extent of unliquidated dealings from its shady beneficiaries.
Legend has it that those who were able to secure a portion of that 10 Million worth of help, such as owning a single animal in a short list of cows, carabaos, pigs and goats, wasn't exactly satisfied by its manual labor, since much of those beasts were either too wild, untamed, easily frightened or sick, enabling some of those farmers to cry foul over its intended purpose. The trust fund, which was supposed to be given as a supplemental budget from its dispersal provisions, and was worth more than P1 Million in its original understanding, simply collapsed along with the rest of the creatures as its designated officer, himself, in-charge of all the program implements, is still reportedly recuperating from its purported sick leave.
Somehow the strains we have been experiencing lately in securing a smooth transition from the damages of that old system into a much more delineated one has consumed the politics of our present dispensation. In as much as we maintain that we should, at all times, condition ourselves to "move on", to let things pass as they are, or even share a positive outlook amid our financial and social quandaries, that an unliquidated transaction is still an unliquidated transaction even over the dam and under the bridge. From that barefooted farmer off the plains of Midsayap all the way through that crafty tiller in the rugged terrains of Makilala, these supposed livestock should have been part of the landscape and not just a last minute auxiliary in its organization as far as its distribution is concerned. The possible damages of which will not only affect the already precarious rationing of goods in the entire province, but will also influence a sustained cut right in through the veins of our gross domestic product, such a profound loss to a continually receding economy.
Our country, no matter how sophisticated our political execution has become, is still very much antiquarian in spirit. In Southeast Asia alone, ours is a system that still places its bet within the limits of our manual mode of harvesting, at least in most of our farmers in the outskirts of our major thoroughfares. Even the National Food Authority (NFA), over the years, which serves as a springboard of major rice distributions in the country is among the many that is in danger also of collapsing along with the tribe as corruption, aside from pests, has invaded not only those farms, but in its warehouses as well, i.e., allegedly dealing and eventually storing illegally-procured sacks of rice at their disposal. And if that same phenomenon has now plagued the province's intended beasts of burdens, it will, in no time, and as fast as its midnight dealings would go, bear a cutting stigma, that those responsible for the implementation and distribution of this livestock isn't exactly kind to those animals, or more appropriately, to one another.
Just as this Tambucho Killings ( dogs to die of asphyxiation in some sort of makeshift gas chamber out of a vehicle's tambucho) continue to haunt some of our domestic animals, especially in our own canines, as it intends to create an unwanted pet cemetery at the expense of getting rid of these stray dogs, that this not-so-new style of cruelty to animals and farmers as well seemed bent of making it on their own, regardless of its lousy consequences, just to accommodate political relatives of executive privilege, nepotism and "what are we in power for" attitude.
Pulse Asia, just days after the ascension of Noynoy Aquino as president, enumerated in its series of surveys a list of unliquidated transactions of the previous administration from various government offices; anomalous funds straight from the local government units, ill-conceived projects of DPWH, NAPOCOR accused of being politically-dictated and some hefty allowances and questionable bonuses of government secretaries. One need not to stretch ones eye to survey the extent of polarization of both development and deterioration in our communities, a situation that is quite unimaginable perhaps in the midst of a dictatorship almost four decades ago, it has intensified even more so as cronies of that grand old lipunan are now enjoying new renditions of recognition from the chairs of the LGUs to the cozy halls of the Senate.
It wouldn't be surprising that in the succeeding days the provincial government will have to find alternative means to reestablish itself, even breaking away totally from its old ties, as it confronts insurmountable gray areas such as in the case of this sneaky slaughtering of livestock since 2008, and start conditioning itself as it attempts to feed the increasing number of hungry mouths in North Cotabato.
"It is important to understand the current state of local governance and the financial position of the province as this would define our ability to deliver our commitments and pursue our advocacy," the Governor said in her inaugural speech. But by the looks of it, Mendoza will definitely find her hands full, even in this herd alone, before she could actually stand and deliver the goods to her constituents. She will have to go through a gauntlet of already defined procedures from the previous administration, and to determine not only the inherent utilities of its dispersal programs during the course of her inventory and investigation, but in segregating also the politics involved in it.
You may change a cow's name, but it remains a cow. Otherwise, you can be kind and call it in its general term.
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