HIT THE ground running.
That was Gov. Lilia “Nanay Baby” Pineda soon after taking her oath as new overseer at the Pampanga Capitol.
Right on her first full working day, July 1, the perfunctory getting-to-know-you and pep talk with the chiefs of offices turned into a call to arms, the governor stressing the high expectations of the Kapampangan of a working bureaucracy serving his needs.
Among her first marching orders: the recall of the heroes of the increased quarry collections – Filologo Rodriguez, Chris Ocampo, Edu de Leon, et al – from the ignominy of their arbitrary dismissal by the previous administration and the court case it slapped upon them. Not anymore under the banner of Biyaya a Luluguran at Sisikapan (Balas) but with the moniker Kapampangan a Lulugud at Matapat (Kalam).
A whopping P1.3 million on the first day of Kalam manning the quarry checkpoints totally eclipsed the Panlilio administration’s first day take of P1 million. Read more in the editorial today. A promise of greater things to come there, truly.
And from hefty coffers shall come – not hefty though idle bank deposits – but more programs and projects for the people of Pampanga. The course for this the governor has set and constantly put in synergy with a supportive sangguniang panlalawigan that she also consulted – one-on-one and collectively – right on her first working day. A promise of greater things to come, indeed.
The business of the day at the Capitol left in the able hands of the administrator and the staff, the governor took to the road, in keeping with the priorities she set in her agenda of governance, as articulated in her inaugural address:
Sa aking paniwala ang isang kaunlaran ay nagsisimula sa isang malusog na mamamayan. Pipilitin nating matugunan ang pangangailangan ng ating mga kalalawigang maysakit kayat asahan po ang pagtutok ko sa mga pampublikong pagamutan natin.
Thus her first destinations: the district hospitals in Macabebe town and at the Bulaun Resettlement in the City of San Fernando. More than ocular inspections, the governor engaged in personal interactions with the patients, generating some more inputs on the health needs of the people and the required facilities, medicines, and specialists to meet them.
In Macabebe, the state of dilapidation of the buildings constrained the governor to order the provincial engineer’s office to plan for the construction of a new building.
The building of the PEO itself, the governor found on her visit there, needed to be demolished to give way to a new one. (Did I just hear someone – or is it my imagination – whispering CIAC (Clark International Airport Corp.) be given the PEO building as they are the experts in demolition and in making millions out of the scrap materials?)
And so morning and evening came on the first day of Gov. Nanay Baby in office.
Maliban sa kalusugan gusto ko ring pagtuunan ng pansin ang edukasyon lalo na ang mga kabataan na gustong makapag-aral subalit walang kakayahan na tustusan ang pangangailangan.
Bibigyan natin ng pansin ang ating mga pampublikong paaralan kayat asahan po ninyo na personal akong bibisita sa mga susunod na araw sa ating mga paaralan upang makita ang tunay nilang kalagayan, hindi lamang sa mga silid aralan nila kundi pati ang kanilang silid aklatan at mga palikuran na malaki ang epekto sa kanilang pag-aaral at kalusugan.
…Ang makapagbigay ng karagdagang hanapbuhay upang unti-unting maibsan ang kahirapan, kayat ngayon ay hinihingi ko ang kooperasyon ng ating mga namumuno simula sa ating mga barangay captain na sana ay magkaroon tayo ng impormasyon ng bawat nasasakupan ninyo at malaman natin kung sa paanong paraan natin sila matutulungan at mapagsisilbihan.
Hihikayatin natin ang mga negosyante sa ating lalawigan, subalit ang pamumuhunan ay lalago lamang kung meron tayong tahimik at payapang lalawigan kayat sa tulong ng ating PNP o kapulisan ay bibigyan natin ng pansin ang peace and order dito sa ating lalawigan…
So shall it be in the next days.
That was Gov. Lilia “Nanay Baby” Pineda soon after taking her oath as new overseer at the Pampanga Capitol.
Right on her first full working day, July 1, the perfunctory getting-to-know-you and pep talk with the chiefs of offices turned into a call to arms, the governor stressing the high expectations of the Kapampangan of a working bureaucracy serving his needs.
Among her first marching orders: the recall of the heroes of the increased quarry collections – Filologo Rodriguez, Chris Ocampo, Edu de Leon, et al – from the ignominy of their arbitrary dismissal by the previous administration and the court case it slapped upon them. Not anymore under the banner of Biyaya a Luluguran at Sisikapan (Balas) but with the moniker Kapampangan a Lulugud at Matapat (Kalam).
A whopping P1.3 million on the first day of Kalam manning the quarry checkpoints totally eclipsed the Panlilio administration’s first day take of P1 million. Read more in the editorial today. A promise of greater things to come there, truly.
And from hefty coffers shall come – not hefty though idle bank deposits – but more programs and projects for the people of Pampanga. The course for this the governor has set and constantly put in synergy with a supportive sangguniang panlalawigan that she also consulted – one-on-one and collectively – right on her first working day. A promise of greater things to come, indeed.
The business of the day at the Capitol left in the able hands of the administrator and the staff, the governor took to the road, in keeping with the priorities she set in her agenda of governance, as articulated in her inaugural address:
Sa aking paniwala ang isang kaunlaran ay nagsisimula sa isang malusog na mamamayan. Pipilitin nating matugunan ang pangangailangan ng ating mga kalalawigang maysakit kayat asahan po ang pagtutok ko sa mga pampublikong pagamutan natin.
Thus her first destinations: the district hospitals in Macabebe town and at the Bulaun Resettlement in the City of San Fernando. More than ocular inspections, the governor engaged in personal interactions with the patients, generating some more inputs on the health needs of the people and the required facilities, medicines, and specialists to meet them.
In Macabebe, the state of dilapidation of the buildings constrained the governor to order the provincial engineer’s office to plan for the construction of a new building.
The building of the PEO itself, the governor found on her visit there, needed to be demolished to give way to a new one. (Did I just hear someone – or is it my imagination – whispering CIAC (Clark International Airport Corp.) be given the PEO building as they are the experts in demolition and in making millions out of the scrap materials?)
And so morning and evening came on the first day of Gov. Nanay Baby in office.
Maliban sa kalusugan gusto ko ring pagtuunan ng pansin ang edukasyon lalo na ang mga kabataan na gustong makapag-aral subalit walang kakayahan na tustusan ang pangangailangan.
Bibigyan natin ng pansin ang ating mga pampublikong paaralan kayat asahan po ninyo na personal akong bibisita sa mga susunod na araw sa ating mga paaralan upang makita ang tunay nilang kalagayan, hindi lamang sa mga silid aralan nila kundi pati ang kanilang silid aklatan at mga palikuran na malaki ang epekto sa kanilang pag-aaral at kalusugan.
…Ang makapagbigay ng karagdagang hanapbuhay upang unti-unting maibsan ang kahirapan, kayat ngayon ay hinihingi ko ang kooperasyon ng ating mga namumuno simula sa ating mga barangay captain na sana ay magkaroon tayo ng impormasyon ng bawat nasasakupan ninyo at malaman natin kung sa paanong paraan natin sila matutulungan at mapagsisilbihan.
Hihikayatin natin ang mga negosyante sa ating lalawigan, subalit ang pamumuhunan ay lalago lamang kung meron tayong tahimik at payapang lalawigan kayat sa tulong ng ating PNP o kapulisan ay bibigyan natin ng pansin ang peace and order dito sa ating lalawigan…
So shall it be in the next days.
