Lying
is never a perfect art and somehow, some way the truth will catch up
with the artist and this was proven in the verbal tussle between
Tacloban City Mayor Alfred Romualdez and Noynoy’s alter ego Mar Roxas on
the manner of government response in the aftermath of the devastation
caused by super typhoon “Yolanda.”
A day after issuing a denial on all that Romualdez had said at the Senate inquiry on the government disaster assistance, Mar now admits that he did seek a signed waiver from Romualdez to transfer authority on the city to the national government, which means Roxas as Interior secretary taking over control of the local government.
Romualdez, to his credit, refused to issue the document since he was advised that it may be held against him as a form of “constructive resignation,” the same way an unauthenticated diary was used by the Supreme Court under then Chief Justice Hilario Davide to declare that former President Joseph Estrada had effectively resigned.
Roxas was adamant in denying that he had ever asked Romualdez to sign any document to relinquish power. That is, not until a video was produced of the meeting between him and Romualdez where he clearly sought the “legalization” of the national government taking control of Tacloban City government.
Roxas has now contributed a classic line in the annals of Philippine politics: “You’re a Romualdez and the President is an Aquino” which will go down as an example of vindictive politics in the Philippines.
The message of the statement was pure and simple in that Noynoy will brook no political opponents in all his dealings.
Tacloban City was devastated by a combination of the typhoon and due to its geologic features, a storm surge from both ends had resulted in its total desolation.
Noynoy was in the city two days after the typhoon struck but Romualdez said the day he first landed into Tacloban he merely got a brief handshake and was never consulted on what was transpiring in the city, which clearly points out that the first thing on Noynoy’s mind was that he was in enemy political territory.
During a briefing with Cabinet members already in the city, Noynoy immediately showed hostility toward, not only the local officials whom he had accused of failure to anticipate the effects of the storm, but also nearly everybody who had anything to do with Tacloban City, including a businessman who sought immediate national government assistance to stop a looting spree in the city, saying he was shot at, and on record, was told off by Noynoy: “But you are alive, aren’t you?”
Roxas was apparently moving behind the scenes during these critical period to convince Romualdez to relinquish power and hand it over to him. At one point, local officials complained that Roxas was planning to impose a unilateral martial law in the city with him as de facto mayor.
Roxas said that those things were the product of Romualdez’s stressed mind, the same affliction alleged on Chief Supt. Elmer Soria who had told the world of the 10,000 estimated casualties in Leyte that led to his relief from duty.
Now it has been proven to be a product of Roxas and Noynoy’s perfected skill on lying and denial and indeed the Noynoy-Mar tandem tried to take over control of the city from Romualdez.
The short video of the meeting between Roxas and Romualdez told it all.
Like those dirty lying basterds, the tandem finally got their comeuppance.
http://www.tribune.net.ph/commentary/editorial/dirty-rotten-vindictive-politics
A day after issuing a denial on all that Romualdez had said at the Senate inquiry on the government disaster assistance, Mar now admits that he did seek a signed waiver from Romualdez to transfer authority on the city to the national government, which means Roxas as Interior secretary taking over control of the local government.
Romualdez, to his credit, refused to issue the document since he was advised that it may be held against him as a form of “constructive resignation,” the same way an unauthenticated diary was used by the Supreme Court under then Chief Justice Hilario Davide to declare that former President Joseph Estrada had effectively resigned.
Roxas was adamant in denying that he had ever asked Romualdez to sign any document to relinquish power. That is, not until a video was produced of the meeting between him and Romualdez where he clearly sought the “legalization” of the national government taking control of Tacloban City government.
Roxas has now contributed a classic line in the annals of Philippine politics: “You’re a Romualdez and the President is an Aquino” which will go down as an example of vindictive politics in the Philippines.
The message of the statement was pure and simple in that Noynoy will brook no political opponents in all his dealings.
Tacloban City was devastated by a combination of the typhoon and due to its geologic features, a storm surge from both ends had resulted in its total desolation.
Noynoy was in the city two days after the typhoon struck but Romualdez said the day he first landed into Tacloban he merely got a brief handshake and was never consulted on what was transpiring in the city, which clearly points out that the first thing on Noynoy’s mind was that he was in enemy political territory.
During a briefing with Cabinet members already in the city, Noynoy immediately showed hostility toward, not only the local officials whom he had accused of failure to anticipate the effects of the storm, but also nearly everybody who had anything to do with Tacloban City, including a businessman who sought immediate national government assistance to stop a looting spree in the city, saying he was shot at, and on record, was told off by Noynoy: “But you are alive, aren’t you?”
Roxas was apparently moving behind the scenes during these critical period to convince Romualdez to relinquish power and hand it over to him. At one point, local officials complained that Roxas was planning to impose a unilateral martial law in the city with him as de facto mayor.
Roxas said that those things were the product of Romualdez’s stressed mind, the same affliction alleged on Chief Supt. Elmer Soria who had told the world of the 10,000 estimated casualties in Leyte that led to his relief from duty.
Now it has been proven to be a product of Roxas and Noynoy’s perfected skill on lying and denial and indeed the Noynoy-Mar tandem tried to take over control of the city from Romualdez.
The short video of the meeting between Roxas and Romualdez told it all.
Like those dirty lying basterds, the tandem finally got their comeuppance.
http://www.tribune.net.ph/commentary/editorial/dirty-rotten-vindictive-politics
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