Grand Plan at the Kingdom by the River (24)

By Peter G. Jimenea/ Hole of Justice

I tried to zero, in my past columns, only on Hydrocephallus who did everything fair and foul to expand his clout at the Kingdom by the River. But I think I have to widen my shooting range this time to include high officials in the Kingdom by the River complicit with him. 

Official abuse is glaring and King Tura is acting like a blind donkey, asleep in blissful ignorance of what's going on around him.

Hydrocephallus is the most tangible sign of “success” of Reporma kag Pagb ag-o that King Tura promised during his campaign to woo voters of the Kingdom by the  River.

Hydrocephallus expanded his clout. Using his hypnotic spell on King Tura who shows signs of being overtaken by senility, he had the latter sign an illegal executive order creating a new office, the Kawpid. In effect, King Tura usurped the power of parliament.

Parliament neither dissolved nor created an office. It was just taken for a ride when it approved the budget proposal without knowing that one item in it combined the budgets for three sections, namely, the Caw-Caw of Hydrocephallus, the KIO of Ma’am Malou and the Radyo Mo.

The next that Hydrocephallus did was hypnotized King Tura again using the clout of Dok Kagaw, the kingdom butler, to sign another executive order naming him “boss-tsip” of the combined offices. That’s illegal. A new plantilla was created and Hydroceophallus sought a promotion, and all that was needed was a mere executive order?

Appointment or promotion to permanent positions has to undergo the procedure called KSB or  “kingdom selection board” which requires that all vacancies be published before they are open for applications.

The KSB interviews and screens applicants and recommends to the king. But, in this case, our hero Hydrocephallus made a shortcut. And he still proudly waves his "qualification", an "MPA" awarded him by the University of Sultant Kudarat. Where is that and when did Hydrocephallus left the kingdom to enroll in USK?

The Kingdom is in disarray now as outcome of Reporma kag Pagbag-o. Procurements are stalled because Team Reporma Pagbag-o created bureaucratic gridlocks. Purchase requests (for medicines and hospital supplies, and agricultural inputs) bid last year yet are not yet delivered. Public service, as result, is hampered, thanks to Reporma kag Pagbag-o.

Hydrocephallus tried to oust Ma’am Malou last January until February but failed. He used Dok Kagaw to scare her by dangling the threat of sanction for “insubordination”. He used Dok Kagaw, Ellen of Troy, Tibakla and Gin Butlog to drop Ma’am Malou and her subordinate from the payroll to compel her to accept her de facto demotion and the impakto promotion of Hydrocephallus. Ma’am Malou and Bikya were denied two months salaries but they held on.

Ma’am Malou slapped Hydrocephallus et al with complaints before the Civil Service Commission. Her case is pending.

Lately, Hydrocephallus and Dok Kagaw declared that the office of Ma’am Malou would be demolished and a new one, a “media lounge” will replace it. Members of the Kingdom Press Corps made that possible by lamely signing the “petition” prepared by Hydrocephallus and Jijimon Mutya and submitted to King Tura for the establishment of a media lounge. It is a one-million project and it will be implemented by negotiated contract.

It’s already a done deal. The one-million construction (and its “commission”) is done deal to evict Ma’am Malou and install Hydrocephallus as the new KIO.

I have spared King Tura in this series. But this time around, I have to ask: what’s going on?

Team Reporma kag Pagbag-o led by Dok Kagaw and Hydrocephallus is bullying your people and you do nothing? Your Pototan and Mina Boys are aghast at such arrogant display of muscle by people who merely hopped in the train after your victory.  

These P & M Boys have burned themselves campaigning for you in the past elections and you turn a deaf ear on them and instead listen to the whispers of Hydrocephallus, Boy Bakling and Dok Kagaw?

I hate to say this, but senility must have overtaken King Tura whom I and fellow denizens of the Kingdom by the River expected to implement an authentic Reporma kag Pagbag-o.

What we see now is open thievery in Hydrocephallus, who was kicked out in 1999 of a national broadsheet for dishonesty (plagiarism).

What we see now is open thievery in Hydrocephallus who was subsequently fired from the Canadian Urban Institute program for dishonesty (immorality, after his own wife Rutchelia complained of his adulterous relationship with his muni-muni named Ratchell Jacerla).

What we see now is open thievery in Hydrocephallus turning his after-office-hours and weekends at the kingdom palace into a motel, principal venue of his trysts with his muni-muni, which his magic wand transformed into “overtime”.

Reporma kag Pagbag-o under King Tura is Hydrocephallus turning the palace into a motel and still profits from that immoral act. He got seven thousand in “ovetime” pay in April and nine-thousand in March.

May kalipay na, may ganansya pa. That’s Reporma kag Pagbag-o of King Tura. And we often hear him warning kunu employees to stop their corrupt practices because he won’t hesitate to fire them even if they are close to him.