Grand Plan at the Kingdom by the River (14)

By Peter G. Jimenea/ Hole of Justice

I am happy that the cabal plotting to oust Ma’am Malou as Kingdom Information Officer (KIO) balked after having been told by King Tura that writing features and news was the job of Hydrocephallus, not Malou’s whose position requires supervisory function.

Ma’am Malou might have been relieved but she should not let down her guard. Her office is still hostage to the whims and caprices of her tormentor who never showed any sign of repentance for attempting to usurp the position of KIO.

Since he was named head of Kawkaw last September, Hydrocephallus wrote only one news item, one about the rice processing complex funded by the Korean government being erected in the town of Uncle Kid. He has written the second, which is his first column at P-News, last week.

That is his only output since joining the service at the Kingdom by the River. He receives 34,000 monthly but all he can do are the pair of articles. He rather busied himself grabbing additional positions even to the point of sideswiping others in the process.

Ma’am Malou should not let down her guard but pursue her complaints against Hydrocephallus and his co-conspirators who tried to unseat her as KIO and failing in that, deleted her name and that of her assistant Bikya off the payroll.

Ma’am Malou should not let down her guard but prosecute her complaints against Hydrocephallus and company for coercing her to submit a new job description which was tantamount to accepting a lower position and failing to do that, struck out her name and that of her assistant Bikya from the payroll and pressure them further by withholding their procurement requests for office supplies.

In that regard, she should drag into the case Tibakla, the self-ingratiating lady who has the reputation of being willing and ready to spread her legs to obtain a promotion in the Kingdom by the River. Tibakla and her assistant Gin Butlog made pabida of themselves before Hydrocephallus by summarily deleting the names of Ma’am Malou and Bikya from the payroll.

Ma’am Malou and Bikya were unable to receive their January salaries which were supposedly to be released in February 2011.

I wish King Tura would also teach Tibakla and Gin Butlog a lesson on being humane by withholding their salaries for March or April, whichever it may deem him fit.

Hydrocephallus picked the fight and started as strong as a bull while ma’am Malou felt she was weak and alone. However, it ended with Malou scoring a strong and victorious finish while Hydrocephallus whimpered like a bully drenched with embarrassment, his tail between his legs.

Public sympathy, particularly, from majority and old guards of the working media in the Kingdom went for Ma’am Malou. Hydrocephallus had only his Jijimons whom he promised positions in the kingdom as part of the “Grand Plan” to take over key posts and pave the entry of Bogart to replace King Tura. Even his Jijimons are distancing themselves from him save for his rabid lapdog Mountain Green who, ignoring the minimum standard of factualness, continues to call Hydrocephallus “KIO” and Ma’am Malou “ex-KIO”.

The incident proved to be Hydrocephallus’s Waterloo. He exposed himself to isolation. As soon as he picked up the fight, the sympathetic community started sending scattered data on his dark past, like how he was fired from a national daily for dishonesty (plagiarism), and his disgraceful exit from the program funded by the Canadian Urban Institute for being a bully, irresponsible and womanizer.

No less than his own wife filed a formal complaint with the CUI hitting him for being a womanizer, which a separate complaint filed by his associates corroborated. He flaunted Ritz Jacerla, his muni-muni around. He still had the guts to convert their office into a motel much like he did at the palace of the Kingdom by the River last February 27 where they made paupas damang from morning till 4 pm.