Grand Plan at the Kingdom of the River (21)

By Peter G. Jimenea/ Hole of Justice

Sin, repentance and redemption popped into my head the past Semana Santa. So does peace and reconciliation, ideals we humans want to attain.

I have wished to lay off my keyboard on Hydrocephallus after churning 20 opinion pieces on his misadventure in the Kingdom by the River. But he is beyond redemption, leaving me no choice but continue heckling him so the public be properly apprised.

Hydrocephallus, for the benefit of new followers, is a new bureaucrat at the Kingdom by the River, as boss chief of Kaw-kaw. Hardly had he warmed his seat from October last year, he schemed and acted accordingly to expand his fiefdom.

He is the key in the “Grand Plan”, an operation to seize control of key offices in the Kingdom in order to pave the way for the transition from the reign of King Tura to Bogart before 2013. The Grand Plan is premised on the scenario that King Tura is very ill and may be unable to finish his term.

Hydrocephallus and his Jijimon media prepared the ground for that by first annexing the Radyo Mo and the Kingdom Information Office head Ma’am Malou who is a co-equal of Hydrocephallus.

Hydrocephallus and gang tried to eject Ma’am Malou but that the latter resisted, holding her ground despite threats. Hydrocephallus and gang tried to bring Ma’am Malou and her assistant Bikya down their knees by withholding their salaries for February.

Ma’am Malou filed a complaint with the Civil Service versus Hydrocephallus et al. She also got a favorable ruling from King Tura who ordered Hydcrocephallus back to his den with the instruction not to disturb her again. King Tura further told Ma’am Malou to push ahead with her administrative complaint.

The Civil Service encourages a government office to resolve disputes among employees at its level by convening a grievance committee. However, failing to form one in two weeks, it investigates on its own.

King Tura has not convened the grievance committee, with that, the ball game goes to the court of the Civil Service.

That should have been a lesson for Hydrocephallus. But he is just beyond redemption. Though he went back to this den, he still resorted to tricks. Not contented in freezing the salaries of Ma’am Malou and Bikya, he further tightened his grip on office supplies, making the KIO the only one in the world that has no bond paper and printer ink.

Why did the executive department, particularly, the budget office, lumped three offices under one budget proposal? Ellen of Troy has to explain that. She is the same person who took the civil service examinations repeatedly and never scored beyond 50.

Hydrocephallus lately reappeared at the KIO and announced he was tearing down some concrete partitions to erect a multi-million media lounge. By what authority does he do that? The KIO does not need any repair at all.

Some weaklings at the press corps tacitly encouraged Hydrocephallus through their inaction. Hydrocephallus has manipulated the press corps to expel David of Mt. Sinai for the lame excuse that he does not attend press corps gatherings. The real reason for that is that David is identified with Boy Mejo, arch-enemy of Hyrdrocephallus.

Hydrocephallus is the epitome of the Reporma kag Pagbag-o platform that King Tura promised in the  campaign period. He was hired to promote the public image of King Tura and the province but he is blowing that due to his highhandedness and laziness, the same cause, among his virtues that forced his employers in the Canadian Urban Institute, to fire him. The other reason, which was as serious, was the complaint by his wife accusing him for adultery.

His officemates corroborated her allegation that he and his muni-muni Ruchella Jacerla, a married woman, converted the office into a motel. Hydrocephallus never learned. He repeats the same stupid act at the Kingdom by the river, bringing his muni-muni on weekends and holidays and wee hours of the night, like what they did last February 27 where they stayed from the morning until 4 pm.

The daily grind of churning press releases is done by Early Bird. Hydrocephallus, usurper of the KIO, produces news releases as rare as a Doodoo. But he still has the gall to claim P9,000 last month in “overtime pay” consisting mainly of his trysts with Ruchelle Jacerla. In other words, he awarded himself a fat overtime pay for his laziness and for turning the Kingdom by the River into the Queen's Court, if you knew what I mean.