Well, who says that women are always second fiddles to men?
That simply is a wrong notion. Look at what happened in Davao City just recently. Two women hatched a “snatch me” scheme apparently in an attempt to cover up their own act of robbing a forwarding company of about half a million pesos.
Imagine one of the two courageously reported to the Talomo police station of a supposedly snatching incident where the money of the company was allegedly swiped by motorcycle-riding persons right in front of a popular money sending agency! Unfortunately for the supposed victims, one of whom is an employee of the forwarding company, subsequent investigation disclosed that she was only feigning the claimed snatching.
Now the woman is under detention together with another woman, who is her alleged accomplice. Whatever is the real reason of the criminal drama by the two, with a third suspect who is still at-large, we really have no idea. But we are certain it was compelling for them since they know what they did was a serious criminal offense.
Now they have to suffer the consequences of their illegal deed.
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As of the writing of this column we have no idea whether or not former President Rodrigo R. Duterte really made good his commitment to attend yesterday’s episode of the over-extended Congressional Quadruple Committees investigating the alleged Extra-Judicial Killings (EJKs) during the incumbency of the Davaoeno former President. We have a deadline to meet for the submission of our column to this newspaper’s editorial desk.
We are however, certain that FPRRD was likely able to make laughing stocks of some of the more grandstanding members of the committees jointly conducting the probe. Of course the scene could be more worthy of attention from those who attended the hearing in person and those who just witness the same on television.
That is, if the members of the quad-com really earnestly studied their homework and come to the hearing very well prepared. After all they already have idea on how the shrewd former chief executive comported himself during the Senate hearing on the same issue.
On our part we definitely reserve our whole afternoon yesterday to witness through the boob tube the conduct of the hearing and we hope to write about if more extensively in our column tomorrow.
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In politics, more specifically the Philippines, the protagonists are seemingly having a continuing source of ideas on how to lob political projectiles at each other. And the opposing groups’ tacticians are making the most of the social media platforms as the battlegrounds of the almost unexpurgated armaments of destruction.
So innovative are the brains of the protagonists that even the magnitude of disasters and the number of casualties are now used to describe how unfortunate the country during the time of this and that President.
The latest of this kind of unwanted gimmickry was the comparison of the wind velocities of three major typhoons to hit the country during the time of the late former President Benign=o Simeon Aquino III (PNoy), the one during the time of FPRRD, and the latest was the typhoon Kristine that hit the Eastern and Northern Luzon provinces only about two weeks ago.
In that Facebook post the source or author presented the Yolanda incident with wind strength reaching the super typhoon category and showing the figure of over 6,000 deaths. Then the author of the post presented that typhoon during Duterte’s stint in Malacanang with wind velocity at the maximum of about 200 kilometers per hour with so less number of deaths. Then the post creator proceeded to present typhoon Kristine with relatively weaker wind power compared to Yolanda and the one during FPRRD’s time. In the same post it was clear the author presented with political intention that so many died and injured, seemingly attributing the huge number of casualties to the poor preparation, response and allegedly failed anti flood projects of the present government in the areas most affected specifically the Bicol region.
But then, the term of the incumbent President started barely a little over two years ago. So, whose term or terms could have such anti-flood control projects started or conceptualized? If these were completed during the first two years of the term of PBBM, then it is certain the design and the construction could have been done earlier than the incumbent’s term.
So, who should be blamed? Your guess is as good as ours.
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