No wonder the CEBU CITY MAYOR RAMA was able to gain adherents from, say, the mountain barangays where his infrastructure projects are visible and in Cebu City. No wonder, too, that the mayor, who looked lonely after he bolted from the BOPK early in his term, has looked formidable as a candidate because of the perception that he was able to deliver the services that his predecessor, Osmeña, failed to attend to because of his obsession with the South Road Properties. Rama repaved numerous roads, got Osmena Blvd walkways all widened and recemented, and built numerous parks which the city desparately needs.

Tuesday, March 26, 2013

BOPK City Council members rebuke their master OSMENA!


The Cebu City Sangguniang Panlungsod passed a resolution allowing the admission to the College of Nursing in the Cebu City Medical Center of students who are not residents of Cebu City. 
Well, when the BOPK-dominated city council propped up the recommendation of Hon. Cabarrubias, it signaled an appreciably new stance. The sanggunian members knew the position of the congressman, their political kingpin, on this issue. They must have understood the vigorous opposition of their political master to the Cabarrubias formula. By opting to approve the recommendation of their co-councilor, the SP members began to show to Cebuanos that they could also say no to their benefactor.

In other words, the dominant BOPK members of the city council, by not heeding the words of their master, said, in a manner or speaking, that the honorable congressman Osmeña was wrong in his policy direction. What a stinging rebuke! Their message, which, to me, is unprecedented, makes mine mixed emotions. There never was a time in the past that they belittled the position of the representative. Are they telling us that gone were the days when they would take hook, line and sinker, the pronouncements of their godfather? If so, what has emboldened them as to demonstrate the crack in the political hold of their king?

Actually, the former mayor OSMENA, in contradicting the recommendation of the councilor, somersaulted in a policy. Was it not he who “gave” away a pork barrel fund allocated for the south district to the Cebu province? If the lawmaker were only consistent, he should not have deprived the south district of the kind of money he somehow “authorized” to be transferred to the benefit of the people living in the first district of the province. When he did that, I thought he was both taunting the sitting mayor and trying to ingratiate himself to the political base of the congressman of the first district of Cebu. Using an obnoxious play of words, he tried to cover the fact his “giving away” his pork worked to the tremendous detriment of the city. Read the complete Philippine Star article by clicking this link
http://www.philstar.com/freeman-opinion/2013/03/24/923480/bopk-city-council-members-rebuke-their-master
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