It was reported today in TV news that a govt agency in charge of filtering application for rate increases
rejected a proposal by a DUI and two power suppliers to increase rate by as much as P1,000 per household per month. The said govt agency rejected the petition because of 1 wrong numbers 2 inabiity of petitioners to furnish financial statements for past figures
Ilijan natural gas and Sual power plant all ready notified Meralco that it can no longer supply Meraco under the old contract
It was rumored for the said govt agency in the past, being not so focused on their mandate
1. Had a chief pocket good 7 number windfall from a DUI for just approving a P0.05 provisional increase. Thats a good windfall for the DIU
2. That a large conglomerate recovered its huge investment from purchase of shares of power company
after it wrangled just a P0.40/kwh increase
We are glad that finally the said agency is on the side of the populace
Despite comments by various citizen groups that SC still has the power to declare BBM as not qualified to be the President, it most unlikely that it will do so:
1. BBM has now been proclaimed as President by NBOC; the DQ case was overtaken by events;
2. If BBM is not qualified to be candidate it should have been done early on when he ran for:
1. Senator, 2. Vice President. If he is not qualified now then he should be DQ'd then
3. It is very unlikely that a person elected by sovereign will of the people can be overturned by decision
of an appointive body.
Various scenario:
1. SC justices will not act on petition or act on it at 6th year of BBM office;
2. SC justices being appointee of Duterte will act on it, and elevate SD the Presidents daughter to Presidency. (a remote possibility because)
3. If BBM is disqualified, the next highest number of votes will become the President LR.
We do understand though and there is a precedent that an elective official after having been discovered as an American citizen was DQ'd by a PET and the BBM detractors might be able to do this.
Rep. Edcel Lagman prepares for oral arguments in SC vs Martial Law
Declaration (proclamation 216)
As this is being written the oral arguments for and against martial law in Mindanao are being exchanged at SC. Maybe a waste of time and people's money This post asks what are more proofs needed to support the decision for such a declaration: The main argument is that it should be limited to Marawi city
But this is war. and now the crisis has spilled over up to Iligan City; destruction is in billions of pesos; hundreds of lives were lost. The Maute has hundreds of combatants at Marawi with P30 million support coming from ISIS through a former Malaysian professor; The militants had even a P50.00 stash in one of the houses.
1. The perpetrators are rumored to have slipped to neighboring provinces As the bomb maker who was caught in CDO; the elder Maute was caught in Davao
2. The evacuees are in Iligan City where there is an impending humanitarian crisis
3. The allies of the militants are all elsewhere in Mindanano: Sulu, Zamboanga Maguindanao
4. The NPA may be taking advantage of the situation to launch attacks.
5. The foreign nationals joining the fray are entering through the porous borders of southern Mindanao like Sarangani and Sulu
6. It now appears that the Marawi war is a tactical alliance among BIFF, Abu Sayyaf, and Maute. (And maybe NPA. Those in the know say that the ASG were in Clarin Bohol to recruit fighters for this event
Again this petition at SC is a great dishonor our fallen soldiers in Marawi While they gave up their lives for our country, the detractors have the gall and guts to imply that their efforts were in vain. The allies of the other militants like the NPA and other armed groups would be the only one who are capable of launching such detraction
The situation then, in 1972 when JPA was allegedly ambushed in Makati, as an excuse to declare martial law is very different from Marawi situation. It is war. Let the honorable objectors to the Martial Law in Mindanao go to Marawi at the provincial capitol to argue against such declaration
I would suppose nakahiyaan na lang nila. The church, VP Robredo and all others even a known leftist lady senator agree that the declaration is justified
Maute ISIS abducted the Catholic priest and burned the Cathedral
