Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio reminded everyone of her principle and it’s plain and simple–if you want to do business, be legit.
Mayor Sara reiterated her governance mantra in the wake of threats from disgruntled members of the Kapa Ministry to withdraw support to the Duterte family in the next elections. The threat was meant to hit principally the city’s lady chief executive and presidential daughter who many people are tossing up as the heir to her father in the presidency. But instead of being fazed, Sara did not budge. That’s her character. Cool and collected, unless you awaken her demons.
Sara’s reaction to the threat was non-confrontational. She walked away from picking up a fight and simply offered no comment when solicited of her reaction.
The truth is, people cannot take President Duterte and Sara, for that matter, to be beholden by something that is illegal in exchange of political support. The father and daughter are consistently uncompromising in their stand. Kapa cannot buy their continued operations by peddling political support or absence of it. They would rather walk away from politics then being forced to accept what is unlawful.
Kapa’s miseries were its own creation. However, because of the lack of financial literacy of many of our people, they fall easily into the enticement of easy money. What is happening now is that the main characters of Kapa are making use of people’s emotions to blackmail the government just to continue to perpetrate its fraudulent operations. The narratives are the same, repeated over and over to bombard the emotions, turning the issue from deception to social justice which is hardly the case in point.
Mayor Sara is right. No amount of blackmail can bend the law, nor hide deception in the guise of bridging inequality and providing a perceived relief from poverty.
At this point, it is mind conditioning that is being used as a tool to continue circumventing the law. We can only pray for an awakening.
