What I liked about a certain veteran media man in Pangasinan was he could remember my booze powered analysis.
“Your prognosis on the number games among the members of the Sanggunian Panglungsod (City Council) of how they could override the veto of Dagupan City Mayor Benjie S. Lim was correct. It was collaborated by a similar case in Tanauan, Batangas,”
“Thank you sir,” I told him.
That Batangas case, listed as Opinion No. 82, Series 2007 of the Department of Interior & Local Government, was sent to my e-mail too by my yet un-meet “cousin”-- the prolific Dagupan City Administrator Vlad Mata.
I told the media man earlier-- when we were drinking Kuatro Kantos with his pals near the river bank of Brgy. Pantal-- that those line items could be vetoed by Mayor Lim if he felt those were Ultra Vires to the city as they prejudiced his constituents. I said the SP of Dagupan needs to over –turn Lim’s veto with two-third (2/3) votes.
Two-third votes should be nine members out of the 13.
This includes the vice mayor as provided by Section 457 of the Local Government Code (R.A 7160).
“But Vice Mayor Belen could not vote in that 2/3. The law gives her the power to vote by breaking a tie only,” I told the media guy who said he is a fan of non-pareil American documentary writer Bob Woodward.
Because it took however an outward and progressive looking and conscience-stricken City Councilor Jess Canto for his colleagues to frustrate Lim, we were deprived to witness how Fernandez treat the line items’ vetoes if Canto did not go for a business trip.
Without the 2/3 votes, without the official statement from the office of the president or the court on how much budget the mayor taps on those vetoed line items, the Vice Mayor wrote at the regional office of the Department of Budget & Management in La Union, it is a presumption that Lim wins the budgetary battle.
“Even though the SP thumbs down his program, Lim can just veto it. Then the bill is back to the August Body that is now handicapped to provide a 2/3 votes because the vice mayor can not vote, “I told the salt and peppered hair scribe.
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Three children, whose averaged aged is three years old, from the squatter area of Brgy. Tapuac in Dagupan City were searching ng for bangus (milkfish) at a fishpond near the De Venecia Highway when they saw a box of mineral water near a camachile tree.
Two of them took a peek of what was inside the cartoon.
One of them threw an empty bottle from the cartoon for the third boy that was five yards away from them. Then the two boys pulled out a heavy stuff wrapped by a sack and wires.
Boom!
The two boys were knocked out.
They were seriously struck by shards of broken bottles used as sharp nails on their faces and upper torsos. The other boy’s tee was burn.
One of them would become blind as a sharp shard hit seriously his eye.
The third boy survived too as three sharp shards that were buried in the left side of his head were not deep to snatch out his life.
When they were brought at the Cuison Medical Clinic in the same village by frantic people at the blast site (some of them wore briefs only), the owner of the clinic was indifferent. Their hysterical parents saw them confined with bloods at a nearby bench unattended.
“Because we were poor, the owner did not treat us. But it was wrong!,” the sorry father lamented.
They were eventually brought at the Regional Medical Centre in Dagupan City.
My nagging questions:
1) Was the explosion a part of another explosion in Brgy.Bonuan where an old man was hit by three real sharp nails on the head and face?
2) Was the explosion an evil scheme by the political enemy of Mayor Lim to discourage people inside and outside Dagupan to attend the zero-budget City Council-initiated Bangus Festival being celebrated as of this moment?
3) Was the crude bomb in Tapuac deterrence made by the owner of the fishpond to thieves who lived in the nearby squatter area not to steal his milkfish?
Dagupan City Chief of Police Romeo Caramat should initiate an investigation on this observation.
(You can read my previous columns at http://dagupenosnews.blogspot.com/ or contact me at mata_mario@yahoo.com.ph)
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