“PROPER PROTOCOLS are not followed at the provincial government.”
So Gov. Eddie T. Panlilio said. A redundancy there, maybe: So has anyone heard of “improper” protocols? Or a slip in syntax, improved thus: “Protocols are not followed properly at the provincial government.”
Still, all truth and nothing-but is that statement of the governor: Protocols having flown out of the windows of the Capitol since Panlilio took office.
No, I stand corrected: Even before Panlilio took his oath of office. Remember how he reminded – in early June 2007 – then-acting Gov. Yeng Guiao that his (Guiao’s) “is just a caretaker administration” and strongly enjoined him to stop the bidding of some infra projects scheduled long before the May 2007 elections?
That is a clear breach of protocol, to put it diplomatically; a blinding instance of ignorance, to put it bluntly, Guiao by operation of law, exercising gubernatorial functions in the absence of then Gov. Mark Lapid.
Remember how – once seated as governor – he asked the sangguniang panlalawigan for a blanket authority to sign agreements, contracts, donations of any and all nature with any and all party the Office of the Governor fancies?
More than a breach of protocol, that is clear ignorance of the separation of powers, of the doctrine of check-and-balance so enshrined in the democratic system of government.
Remember the gentlemen’s agreement between Guiao and Panlilio – brokered by then Among-backer Rene Romero – for them to first sit down and talk over issues, especially contentious ones, before these were raised to the SP? And how Panlilio reacted when this pact was raised on the (non)confirmation hearings of the Dabu-Velez appointments?
Yeah, of the gentlemen’s agreement, Panlilio simply said: “I forgot.”
That’s no breach of protocol, that’s contrived deception.
In last Monday’s flag-raising rites at the Capitol, protocol was slapped at Panlilio’s face anew.
“Ing metung a ordinaryong empleyado potang atin lang e buri kaya, kabud da nya alis king aliwang departamentu o opisina. Pero ing talwing makabalung miyayalis ne pala ing empleyayo, ing boss ng department head. Protocol pu wari ita (An ordinary employee gets transferred to another department or office for any reason the executive could think of. The last one to know of the transfer is his/her department head. Is this protocol)?” Remigio Capuchino, president of the Capitol Employees Union asked Panlilio.
“A case in point is that of a provincial photographer whose job description covers information dissemination and publication of photo releases. He covered the filing of the certificates of candidacy of Vice Gov. Guiao and other officials at the Comelec. That is well within his job description as provincial photographer, but he was detailed at the PESO office. What would he do there?” So another daily quoted a Capitol employee to substantiate Capuchino’s claim.
Given the case of dismissal impacted upon disaster relief-master Luchi Gutierrez, and the demotional transfer of Doctor Ponio from the provincial hospital – to cite but two examples – along with the outright defiance by Panlilio of every contrary opinion, if not judgment, from the Civil Service Commission or other legal fora, there is no further need for substantiation that indeed protocol obtains not at the Capitol.
So Panlilio laments: Proper protocols are not followed at the provincial government. So who is not following them?
“Gob, masanting lawen taya pa ing sarili tamu, bayu taya lawen deng lupa da ring aliwa (Better to look first at ourselves, before looking at others),” Capuchin told Panlilio, in an obvious, albeit diplomatic, take of Matthew 7:5: “Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother’s eye.”
There is protocol, a divinely inspired one at that!
So Gov. Eddie T. Panlilio said. A redundancy there, maybe: So has anyone heard of “improper” protocols? Or a slip in syntax, improved thus: “Protocols are not followed properly at the provincial government.”
Still, all truth and nothing-but is that statement of the governor: Protocols having flown out of the windows of the Capitol since Panlilio took office.
No, I stand corrected: Even before Panlilio took his oath of office. Remember how he reminded – in early June 2007 – then-acting Gov. Yeng Guiao that his (Guiao’s) “is just a caretaker administration” and strongly enjoined him to stop the bidding of some infra projects scheduled long before the May 2007 elections?
That is a clear breach of protocol, to put it diplomatically; a blinding instance of ignorance, to put it bluntly, Guiao by operation of law, exercising gubernatorial functions in the absence of then Gov. Mark Lapid.
Remember how – once seated as governor – he asked the sangguniang panlalawigan for a blanket authority to sign agreements, contracts, donations of any and all nature with any and all party the Office of the Governor fancies?
More than a breach of protocol, that is clear ignorance of the separation of powers, of the doctrine of check-and-balance so enshrined in the democratic system of government.
Remember the gentlemen’s agreement between Guiao and Panlilio – brokered by then Among-backer Rene Romero – for them to first sit down and talk over issues, especially contentious ones, before these were raised to the SP? And how Panlilio reacted when this pact was raised on the (non)confirmation hearings of the Dabu-Velez appointments?
Yeah, of the gentlemen’s agreement, Panlilio simply said: “I forgot.”
That’s no breach of protocol, that’s contrived deception.
In last Monday’s flag-raising rites at the Capitol, protocol was slapped at Panlilio’s face anew.
“Ing metung a ordinaryong empleyado potang atin lang e buri kaya, kabud da nya alis king aliwang departamentu o opisina. Pero ing talwing makabalung miyayalis ne pala ing empleyayo, ing boss ng department head. Protocol pu wari ita (An ordinary employee gets transferred to another department or office for any reason the executive could think of. The last one to know of the transfer is his/her department head. Is this protocol)?” Remigio Capuchino, president of the Capitol Employees Union asked Panlilio.
“A case in point is that of a provincial photographer whose job description covers information dissemination and publication of photo releases. He covered the filing of the certificates of candidacy of Vice Gov. Guiao and other officials at the Comelec. That is well within his job description as provincial photographer, but he was detailed at the PESO office. What would he do there?” So another daily quoted a Capitol employee to substantiate Capuchino’s claim.
Given the case of dismissal impacted upon disaster relief-master Luchi Gutierrez, and the demotional transfer of Doctor Ponio from the provincial hospital – to cite but two examples – along with the outright defiance by Panlilio of every contrary opinion, if not judgment, from the Civil Service Commission or other legal fora, there is no further need for substantiation that indeed protocol obtains not at the Capitol.
So Panlilio laments: Proper protocols are not followed at the provincial government. So who is not following them?
“Gob, masanting lawen taya pa ing sarili tamu, bayu taya lawen deng lupa da ring aliwa (Better to look first at ourselves, before looking at others),” Capuchin told Panlilio, in an obvious, albeit diplomatic, take of Matthew 7:5: “Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother’s eye.”
There is protocol, a divinely inspired one at that!
