“Vision without execution is just hallucination.” – HENRY FORD.
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An idiomatic phrase that means “discussing a matter without coming to the point.”
Exactly the description about how our government has been operating ever since we learned the science of democratic governance from our American colonial masters.
DILG Sec. Benhur Abalos should be commended for boldly pursuing what many Pinoys have long been subjected to when something explosive, such as the drug scandal involving P6.7 B and the missing 40 kilos of the shabu buy bust haul, occurs.
The above cited affair broke out into the open only last February – if my memory serves me right – but the drug operation was conducted in October 2022 yet.
A span of five months and the PNP hierarchy moved as if nothing earth-shaking ever happened.
So Sec. Abalos “erupted” with executive fury and sensing a cover-up, loudly demanded that those involved be identified, suspended and tried.
Abalos somewhat went into a legit “rage” because he smelled something fishy as the main actor, a Sgt. Rodolfo Mayo, who was the head of the drug enforcement unit responsible for the drug capture, was not in jail but was allowed by his superiors to go scot-free.
To cut the story short, instead of beating around the bush as some previous government authorities have done so in many times past, the SILG came down hard and had two generals and several other PNP officers involved get suspended and on floating status.
Anyway, calling a spade a spade is what demonstrates the righteous attitude necessary to achieve effective governance and efficient public service.
From all indications, after ex-PRRD exited Malacanang, drug lords, traffickers and operators have activated their network with such trepidity.
Happy days are here again!
Are you not surprised (or scared) that frequent drug buy busts and capture of huge amounts of shabu are (for the nth time) reported in the media.
These are the same syndicates that were silenced by Digong’s six years of intensified war against illegal drugs but who are – again – reinvigorated because the PNP, the PDEA and other collaborating government agencies are waiting for direct orders from “above.” whether to sustain the previous illegal drugs war or take a low profile.
Shootings and murders caught in videos, ambushes and other criminal acts are occuring in such frequency that citizens don’t feel safe walking in the streets anymore.
There is a great need for police visibility.
Foot and bike patrols which, citizens agree, help deter bad elements from committing brazen acts of criminality.
It is bad that in our Pinoy culture, we tend to protect our ilk because we have the same blood flowing in our veins, even if this protective act is condemnably violative of the law.
A cover-up is an example of beating around the bush until that cover is blown.
LOL.
You can count them by the fingers because indeed there are only a few selected men who will preserve the law and enforce it against anyone who is found violating it regardless of their blood relations.
Indeed, what a boys club we have.
Perhaps we can make a sweeping statement that this this “boys club” mindset exists in many government agencies today.
Everybody seems to say: “Konek-konek lang yan.”
Don’t we have a pitiful bureaucracy if this “konek-konek mentality is the prevailing attitude in public service?
So, the thing to do is emulate SILG Abalos who stopped beating around the bush.
Immediately after warming his DILG seat, he ordered that all PNP senior officers from colonels to generals submit their respective courtesy resignations in an honest effort to purge the ranks of police scalawags, ninja cops and those who smelled with odorous connections with the underworld.
In one fell swoop, Abalos was able to achieve what others before him failed to achieve in the many years they were in the same office.
Because Abalos stopped beating around the bush, that’s why. (Email feedback to fredlumba@yahoo.com.) GOD BLESS THE PHILIPPINES!
