Lady lawyer councilor Luna Acosta is introducing a proposed ordinance in the Davao City Council authorizing traffic policemen to clamp a wheel of illegally parked vehicles and requiring the owner to pay fines prescribed thereof in order to retrieve his or her unit.
We are certain that the model used by the lady councilor in her proposed measure is the one implemented in Cebu City starting years ago.
“We hope that Mayor Magalong will rekindle his much ballyhooed bravery as a police official by naming even just one corrupt congressman. That will make ours and a lot of other people’s day.”
For us this is a nice ordinance once passed by the Sangguniang Panlungsod ng Dabaw and signed by the mayor. We congratulate the lady local lawmaker. She is indeed her mother’s daughter.
What surprised us, however, is that it took quite a long time before one member of the Council ever thought of aping that Cebu City ordinance. After all, Davao City is not wanting of drivers wantonly violating the city’s illegal parking ordinance. In fact it is one major reason of the spike of road accidents in the city lately. Illegally parked vehicles are constricting the already over-crowded city streets and even Davao’s major highways.
We can only wish Councilor Luna luck in justifying her measure and in getting her fellow dads to give their unqualified support to the proposed ordinance.
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As we were half way writing this column the Senate was about to vote on what move it will take on the aborted trial of the impeachment case of Vice President Sara Duterte.
This after the Supreme Court resolved a Petition by the Vice President to have her trial stopped because of the House of Representatives’ alleged violation of the one year bar in filing more than one impeachment case. The Supreme Court declared that the filing of the VP’s impeachment was in violation of the Constitutional provision. In effect it nullified and voided the House’s transmittal of the case to the Senate and at the same time effectively stopped the Upper Chamber from proceeding with the trial.
The same resolution however, does not ban the House from filing another impeachment case on the same ground after February 6, 2026.
Meanwhile, in an interview by broadcast journalist Christian Esguerra, Sen. Riza Hontiveros disclosed that a resolution is being circulated in the Senate seeking a vote for the continuation of the trial despite the SC ruling and the filing by the House of a Motion for Reconsideration on the Highest Court’s resolution.
The lady opposition senator claimed in that interview that there are at least five members of the Upper Chamber who have already signed the Resolution and they expect some more.
Unfortunately for us, by the time we completed writing our piece, the Senate debate was not yet concluded. But it appears that the five pro-continuation of the trial are unlikely to get their desired number.
Of course, the final outcome was expected to be known when the voting among the senators was over and all the raised hands were counted yesterday afternoon.
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Former Senator Antonio Trillanes is still not through with his once-desired ally, former President Rodrigo Duterte.
In a recent interview Trillanes said that he is certain the International Criminal Court (ICC) will possibly issue more arrest warrants in connection with the former President’s crimes against humanity emanating from his bloody war on drugs.
If the former Senator is correct then who is or are likely to be issued arrest warrant among those who played key roles in FPRRD’s war on illegal drugs?
Of course we know that one of them is very likely Senator Bato dela Rosa who was Duterte’s first PNP chief and his implementer of the war on drugs starting at his native Davao City when he was mayor.
Another could be Dela Rosa’s successor, Gen. Oscar Albayalde who followed Duterte’s mandate to the letter. For now we could not think of any other.
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We strongly agree with our fellow journalist Ver Bermudes on his description of Baguio City Mayor Benjamin Magalong.
Lately Magalong, a former Police Lt. General, had been mouthing about corruption by high government officials including Congressmen. But he did not mention even a single name among the more than two hundred House lawmakers.
Instead he alleged that the congressmen who sponsored nationally funded infrastructure projects get at least 40 percent in kickbacks. He even assigned certain percentage of the budget going to this and that official up to the one in the lowest level whose signature is required for the contractor to collect the final payment.
In his breakdown of percentage with the Congressmen getting the biggest take, it appears that there were projects that were not implemented but fully paid. Hmmm, reminds us of the Ampatuan’s Maguindanao fame (or notoriety?).
Our friend Ver calls Magalong’s act of leveling charges on certain top government officials and Congressmen without naming names similar to that of vloggers whose immediate intention of his/her vlogs is to get more views… and listeners of course.
We hope that Mayor Magalong will rekindle his much ballyhooed bravery as a police official by naming even just one corrupt congressman. That will make ours and a lot of other people’s day.
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