VICTOR DEL PILAR
Mindanao Monitor
Aurora, what a beautiful name! Webster says, the name suggests being the goddess of dawn. It resembles with polar lights, roseate and rosy. People there, besides being hospitable and good-natured, say that Aurora is the home of friendly people and beautiful girls.
Indeed, such a statement was confirmed during our latest visit to the area on the occasion of the town’s 66th Adlaw sa Aurora, where a 15yr old Miss Aren Beryl Bermejo Daga, one of the town’s captivating beauties of the night captured most of our deceiving eyes and took home for herself, no less than six special awards and then romped off to become its Miss Teen Aurora 2008 in a well attended and superfluous beauty pageant.
But behind the town’s fruitful highlights reflects the agony and pain of the townspeople. While it is true happiness can be seen as the beauties performed their body language on stage, but deep within, and just on the other extreme, life is dull characterized with grim looks of disaster because there seem to be an obstacle bracing with them on their way to fulfill their dreams.
Thus, seem to be, at the very moment, the worries of Mayor Jun Cabahug His much bruited about farm to market road networks and potable water systems amounting to PHP104 million pesos in Infres funds, intended for the barangays might end up in vain because his boys in his sangguniang bayan do not seem to cooperate with him. The political bickerings between Mayor Cabahug and his sanggunian is widening at the expense of their own poor people. The mayor is pointing his fingers towards the people under the proverbial balite tree being the culprits of the heinous crime committed in his town. Referring to politicians in the opposition bloc, with whom he earlier requested to enact the needed appropriation ordinance to legitimize the releases of funds so that the project can take off soon. But his request was turned down for no apparent reason, he said.
It is at this point that a crack in the pot has started.
Indeed, such a statement was confirmed during our latest visit to the area on the occasion of the town’s 66th Adlaw sa Aurora, where a 15yr old Miss Aren Beryl Bermejo Daga, one of the town’s captivating beauties of the night captured most of our deceiving eyes and took home for herself, no less than six special awards and then romped off to become its Miss Teen Aurora 2008 in a well attended and superfluous beauty pageant.
But behind the town’s fruitful highlights reflects the agony and pain of the townspeople. While it is true happiness can be seen as the beauties performed their body language on stage, but deep within, and just on the other extreme, life is dull characterized with grim looks of disaster because there seem to be an obstacle bracing with them on their way to fulfill their dreams.
Thus, seem to be, at the very moment, the worries of Mayor Jun Cabahug His much bruited about farm to market road networks and potable water systems amounting to PHP104 million pesos in Infres funds, intended for the barangays might end up in vain because his boys in his sangguniang bayan do not seem to cooperate with him. The political bickerings between Mayor Cabahug and his sanggunian is widening at the expense of their own poor people. The mayor is pointing his fingers towards the people under the proverbial balite tree being the culprits of the heinous crime committed in his town. Referring to politicians in the opposition bloc, with whom he earlier requested to enact the needed appropriation ordinance to legitimize the releases of funds so that the project can take off soon. But his request was turned down for no apparent reason, he said.
It is at this point that a crack in the pot has started.
The political war starts brewing. And surely, if both camps fail to manage this crisis, a possible language shoot out can ensue in the campaign trail by 2010. Gets me, boys? The best that the mayor can do is probably to seek for a ceasefire and pursue a discussion. Vice Mayor Sanoria must speak out his terms why such an ordinance cannot be enacted considering that all documents are already in placed so the project can push through. There must be valid reasons behind all these. Put aside politics muna. Maginusapay muna tayo, isn’t that right? It is our feeling that walang matigas na tinapay sa maninit na kape. Vice Mayor Sanoria must make it snappy before the projects would go down to the dogs. His failure to justify will find him guilty of violating the rights of his barangay folks because, as a public official it is his responsibility to provide them the needed basic services, like road and water. On the part of Mayor Cabahug, if he finds the presence of the enchanted balite tree in his town a threat for the survival of his people, then, using a chainsaw he must bring the tree down, chop it into pieces and feed them to the furnace. And we have sent our message across; we hope everybody won’t get us wrong.