Hints of Firestorm Coming!

Ignoring China’s built up of its military facilities in the South China Sea, the US in 2019 messaged Duterte to put a tough stand against China.

Duterte said, paraphrasing him. “Your Seventh Fleet is there. You know what’s happening. You’re aware they cannot do that (referring to UNCLOS decisions) Why don’t you. Declare war. Fire the first shot. And we will follow,”. 

President Duterte dodged preserving the Philippines’ national patrimony to Washington, in deference to Beijing. An unpatriotic statements coming from a leader.  

As the world’s current happenings heated, segued by the coronavirus pandemic, the racial tension had engulfed by George Floyd killing, Trump chances of getting elected this November 2020 get nil. Political pundits predicted. 

Despite the US mobilization of its forces across the South China since last year, now, even more aggressive movements and exercises happened. An armada of American navy ships ready of any untoward incident. 

If talks between Donald Trump and Xi Jinping faltered, and if it derail Trump’s prospect for a second term, he can unleash an opening salvo against China. His chance to bolster his image for the Americans.  

Disturbed, China can retaliate. This means conflagrations. 

Which country could burn? The Philippines is a candidate. Helmed by Duterte with tested blunder for dealing with the coronavirus pandemic, this can be the worst disaster ever for the Filipinos.  

Changes are until 2022 election. Yet on June 1, 2020, to sustain his power, the Congress approved the Anti-Terrorism Bill in its final reading. 

Meanwhile, the Senate sits on its second reading. 

If the Senate version of the bill approve before the SONA (State of the Nation’s Address) it can enforce decimation of the opposition party, repeating the mid-term election of 2018. 
Until when the people of the Philippines can endure Duterte’s rule? 

China: A Condemned Culprit

The Chinese Communist Party of China reaped the world’s condemnation.

Now that the evil intent of world domination by the People’s Republic emerged, democratic nations seek retribution.

The tail-ender of the documentary: “Tracking Down the Origin of the Wuhan Corona Virus” premiered by The Epoch Times on April 7, 2020 – in just 24 hours amassed over a million views across the media platforms. 

Joshua Phillips, an award-winning investigative reporter, the narrator, concluded his narrative with dire consequences for China’s duplicity.   

The Eurasians Times bannered this headline: Google, Microsoft To Move Out of China. It implies they may no longer be the production hub of the Tech Giants. 

New data reported by Forbes, a United States Global Media Co. showed that companies are leaving China in disrupting their supply chain and musing on relocating to Southeast Asia to avoid tariffs. 

Likewise, Japan boosted their support package to their manufacturers to 243.5 billion Yen to shift out to other countries. Because the pandemic starved their major trading partners of parts for their production.      

Explored legal avenues neared the doorstep of the United Nations International Court of Justice.

Beijing breached the world’s health care responsibilities – concealing the widespread infection of the coronavirus to the outside world. 

The Henry Jackson Society, a British foreign policy Think tank, assessed China’s culpability to the tune of 351 billion Pounds.

Larry Klayman, a former U. S Justice Department prosecutor and founder of Freedom Watch, on March 19, 2020 filed a  

Complaint at the International Criminal Court in the Hague against China. It is a crime against humanity as it developed outlawed biological warfare. 

It alleges that the defendants; Xi Jinping failed to prevent the Wuhan Institute of Virology personnel from becoming infected with the bio weapon and then carrying the virus out in the open.Yang Sen-hong, a human rights activist, a public health expert and a commentator in Taiwan, says the “Made in China” era has ended. Globalization without China, a new expectation.

“Get out Dut’s! You Miserable Scram!”

Filipinos got amazed at how Digong’s penchant for evil lasted this long. 

Could it be that his style of leadership – a merged of Iron Fist and Kids Gloves coasted him along?

The Iron Fist, he used it for his political adversaries. The Kids Glove for his cronies and minions.

Early in his presidency, Sen. Leila De Lima, his top adversary, sampled her of his Iron Fist strategy to instill fear. He put her in jail. Duterte says – “Don’t mess with me, or I’ll mess with you.” 

Then, through his Solicitor General Jose Calida, on Duterte’s blessing tested the Quo Warranto petition to remove Ma. Lourdes Sereno, as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, without being impeached.  

Duterte in most of his speaking engagement bragged of his previous killings to intimidate and sow fear. This inspired his police to do the same in their drug related operations. 

Walden Bello, one of the Board of Directors of the International Forum on Globalization, enunciated this threat through his speech in LawFare. 

For Duterte’s minions and cronies, he goes easy with them.  Government appointees of his are inefficient, corrupt, embezzler. And yet, he slapped them with Kids Gloves. And still get rewarded.

In May 2018, Mocha Uson, the PCCO Assistant Secretary then, posted a video on her blog. Her post detailed the rescue of distressed  OFW in Kuwait by the Philippines’ Diplomats. 

This soured the diplomatic relationships between Kuwait and the 

Philippines. The embassies act violated Kuwait’s sovereignty. It’s a publicity stunt. A fiasco.  

Yet, Dut’s rewarded Mocha Uson a plum position as OWWA’s 

Deputy Administrator. A classic example of Kids Glove treatment. 

The Commission on Audit, on its 2017 report, questioned Wanda Teo, Department of Tourism head of the P60-million for DOT’s ad placement aired on PTV-4, without the transaction report. Ben Tulfo, owner of the media outfit that facilitated the ad is Wanda Teo’s brother. Conflict of interest reeked out. 

Wanda Teo resigned after the news broke out.  The media outfit that received the P60-million promised to return the money. No report of it came out yet.

Resignation.  An easy way out for handling people’s tax money. Cronies and minions jumped with joy. 

That’s how Kids Glove works for Duterte. 

Nothing lasts forever. 

People are becoming restive of Dut’s rule.  

The Brain Behind Illegal Towing

Traffic violators in Metro Manila are allergic to legalities and paper works. That’s why they are hard as granite to give out their Driver’s License when apprehended. They argued to their last breath. And they never run out of sly excuses before accepting tickets for their violations.

To escape from the hassle and legalities, these traffic violators make themselves vulnerable for extortion by crafty tricksters who detected loopholes from the MMDA’s established guidelines procedure.

Tricksters conceived the racket of illegal towing services. They roamed around Metro Manila spotting parked vehicle and towed it. Their venture proved working, so they get bolder. They snatch the vehicle’s keys if they are still in the car or in the truck and impound the vehicle to a place, where owners can retrieve them for a fee higher than the MMDA charged.

The Illegal towing business thrives, until an anonymous individual squeal the illegal racket to the now famous I-ACT Gadget Addict Annotator, which relayed the information to the MMDA Management’s top leaders and other agencies such as PNP-HPG, and LTFRB.

With the joint forces of the three government agencies, the MMDA’s Special Operations Task Group, the PNP-HPG, and the LTFRB, they raided the place near where they impounded the towed vehicles.

From there, they tracked where the illegal towing racket holds office. To their surprise, Danilo Lim, MMDA’s Chairman, and Jojo Garcia, MMDA’s General Manager, Aileen Lizada of LTRFB, and PNP-HPG led to a shanty office.

They cornered the accomplices. The suspect ratted each other. It appeared not only one do the illegal towing. The fingered housewife, unable to give the raiding team with concrete information of their mastermind,  demanded of their cooperation.  Else, prosecute them with untoward consequences.

Meanwhile, an illegal tow truck spotted cruising along Osmena Highway alerted an on-going investigation of the MMDA, PNP-HPG and LTFRB.

The chase yielded two persons of interest who could have been the doer of the illegal towing racket.

Although they received a tongue lashing from the MMDA’s Chairman, Danilo Lim, they denied their illegal towing activities.  They refused to give specific information who’s behind the scam. They accosted them to Camp Crame, only because their tow truck doesn’t have the LTFRB’s accreditation markings and driving without a license.  The illegal towing scam needed deeper investigation.

At the hindsight, MMDA must have the insight of how themselves could beat their own procedure. Prevent ahead. Instead of reacting or suppressing after the fact. Otherwise, the trickster equipped with the good imagination will screw them on their own game. Only now they realized they needed a master list of the accredited towing services shared by the agencies concerned.

 

 

How Chief Justice Sereno Outwits the Monkeys

 

The Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno appeared as the tortoise of the old time favorite fable – The Tortoise and the Monkey.

This famous fable paralleled to the current political climate with a twist:  The monkey characters multiplied.

The Tortoise and the Monkey executed a battle of wits. Whoever uses the clever and deceptive tricks won.

One of the monkey characters is the crackpot lawyer, Atty. Larry Gabon.  He spouted off hearsay presenting his impeachment complaints to a bunch of Monkeys in the Congress. The Congress’ Monkeys declared the complaints enough in form and substance.  So, they invited another bunch of monkeys – the five judges of the Supreme Court, who harbors ill-feeling against the Tortoise.

The Tortoise snubbed the Monkeys of Congress. It’s not the proper forum to shed off her defense. She looked forward facing the Senate as the right venue provided for by the constitution.

Entered another Monkey: The Solicitor General Jose Calida, who filed a Quo Warranto petition questioning the validity of the Tortoise’s appointment.  Incomplete declaration of the Tortoise’s SALN – his justification – can fast track the Tortoise removal.

To answer the OSG’s petition, the justices of the Supreme Court scheduled an oral argument.

The Tortoise used her wit. She asked the Magistrate of the Supreme Court to inhibit the five Monkey Justices from participation, which the monkey judges rejected. Is the Tortoise lucky…? Time to pin her.

Then the Tortoise provoked the biggest monkey of them: The President. She clamored he has his hands for this machination. The biggest Monkey, belligerent in his retaliation, acted as if the Executive Branch has the sole power of a dictator.

The Tortoise, once a meek, refined lady, now became a fierce tiger. This generates sympathy. It emboldens to develop molten lava of dissent and could course through the midterm election in 2019: a referendum for the current administration.

During the Oral Argument, the Tortoise displayed her wit debunking the stupidity of the Quo Warranty petition.

The Magistrate of the Supreme Court will see the danger of the Quo Warranty setting up a precedent.  In which case, the future generation of judges and the country will reap its ill consequences.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

“Tara,” The Monster in Customs

“Juan Ponce Enrile a Memoir,” Enrile’s book – under the subtitle Compromise with Corruption, he described how he blended raising the revenue of the Bureau of Customs (BOC) not disturbing “Tara” tradition going on at the bureau in 1996. This arrangement reinforced the “Tara” tradition.

Enrile met key officials of the BOC at the Manila Hotel and asked them, “How much, out of every peso, goes to the government’s coffer?”

After a while of silence, a middle-aged woman, head of one division said, “Mr. Commissioner, to be honest, only fifty percent.”

“What happened to the rest?” Enrile asked.

“The rest, shared by the importer and personnel of the bureau,” she said.

The crowd chuckled.

“Thank you for your honesty. When I leave this place, what you said shall have been forgotten.” Enrile intoned.

The woman said, “Thank you.”

“Can I ask, though,” Enrile said, “Please increase the share of the government to eighty percent and I promise not to ask what you do with the twenty percent.”

The silence broke. Thunderous applause exploded. Everybody whistled and chatting with one another.

With consent, for decades, the “Tara” tradition transformed to a diabolic monster. Attested to that when it breezed through the BOC the 605 kilograms of shabu shipment in a metal container. It insulted the core of Duterte’s war on drugs.

During Fidel Ramos Presidency; enlightened, and thoughtful customs technocrats spearheaded a landmark change in the customs services. They adopted the wizardry of information technology.  It minimizes human intervention and discretion.

This curtailed somewhat the “Tara” tradition. The customs procedures converted into cashless, queue-less, and paperless processing. When the volume of trade increased, it required more sophisticated customs service.

In 1986 the Department of Finance and World Bank awarded to Société Générale de Surveillance (SGS) of Switzerland the novel systems of Comprehensive Import Supervision System (CISS) in competitive bidding.

In 12 years, from 1987 to 1998 the “Tara” tradition mellowed. A momentous change occurred. Employees resorted to riding public transportation instead of driving around with high end, flashy rides. The CISS, also, pumped in P67.82 billion added revenues, and the BOC’s collection grew at an average rate of 30.1 percent.

The “Everybody Happy” culture among the custom’s staff faded out of currency. People of influence wanted that culture of enrichment revived.

An opportunity showed up when the SGS submitted claims for the services rendered. The Philippine disputed the claims and instructed the BOC’s Board to review the disputes. They ruled that majority of the claims must be paid. The SGS forgave the remains of the majority claims, but the Philippines only paid “a token good payment.”

Ushered in, the Presidency of Joseph Estrada in 2000.  Hell, of corruption broke loose. The Philippines ended the SGS’s contract. “Tara” backed unabated. Everybody Happy again, at the BOC.

The “Tara” epitomized as the monster. Mark Taguba, an Australian educated guy, the central figure in the current imbroglio of the BOC, stoked it to be so. He is the son of a former custom’s employee who knew who’s who in the customs that can facilitate easy passage of his shipment.

The Congress has a drastic solution: Abolished customs. There are companies, the likes of SGS, that does customs duties electronically with minimal human intervention. The current customs employees that couldn’t be sacked, put them in the freezer (Dept. Of Finance as hangers-on) Do an attrition. Or remove those who do not have an item.

The Irony of Mocha Uson Appointment

 

Ms. Margaux Justiniano Uson, known also as “Mocha Uson” appointed as PCOO’s Assistant Secretary is ironic.

On Uson’s pretext that people relied on wrong reports coming from the mainstream media, she said, she would be in charge fighting the fake news. This is ironic: when she herself was the source of bogus news.

Consider this: To highlight Duterte’s care for the ordinary Filipinos, Uson applauded the DSWD system of packing the 50,000 relief goods. It was a news report published on October 1, 2015, during the previous administration. Uson grabbed the good vibes of that old report making it appear it was the handiwork of his idol. The netizens got mad.

Last November 18, 2016, Uson downplayed the protest rally borne out of Duterte’s decision to go ahead with the burial of the former dictator at the Libingan ng mga Bayani. She claimed a distressed mother of one student of St. Scholastic College who took part in the protest rally messaged her that the school forced the student to attend the rally. Uson also accused the school of child abuse. Some of the mothers denied Uson’s claim, but victorious imparting that the protest was not real, but coerced dissent.

In one of Uson’s blog post, she riled why the Human Rights Commission is in mute mode on their condemnation and outraged when she shared the photo of a girl raped and murdered.

Uson insinuated that the Human Rights Commission cherry-picked only those of his boss’s EJK and keep their mouth shut on the others. Later, snooper found out that the crime photos used by Uson came from Brazil. Her post disappeared.

Mocha Uson’s love affairs with fake news is a self-destructive journalism as it descends to personal perspective. Journalism is not anymore, the bearer of universal truth but a matter of self-truth, which can be dangerous.

To handle OFW’s woes is another thrust of Mocha Uson’s appointment. It seemed the OFW’s complaints are not quickly taken care of by either OWWA or the Dept. of Labor through the social media. It implied also that inutile people handle these government agencies. They could not deal the immediate concern of the OFW’s, so they need Mocha Uson to the rescue.

Never mind, if Mocha Uson runs over the Deputy Administrators positions on both OWWA and the Labor Department. Uson clinched the Assistant Secretary position with a Salary of Grade 29. The irony is, her appointment is an expensive duplicate. The other presidential appointees scattered over the government agencies is an example on how to bloat government bureaucracy.

Since these appointees have nothing to do, as they can delegate the job to their subordinates (most of them with CESO certification from the Director down) this will produce an army of “15-30” bosses, if not, spending their time traveling under the pretext of – it’s job-related.

Presidential Appointment as payment of the debt of gratitude would take a heavy toll on people’s money as demonstrated by the appointment of Mocha Uson.

 

 

 

 

The “Shabulized” Duterte’s List

 

Soon the word “shabulized” will likely be added to the Oxford English Dictionary together with the other 40 words of Philippine’s origin that are already part of its lexicon.

“Shabulized” will be remembered as the word used by Duterte to describe his utter desperation of the magnitude of the drug menace gripping a particular province.

“Iloilo,” he said, “is the most “shabulized” province of the Philippines. Meaning, Iloilo apart from any other province is where the use of Crystal Meth or “shabu” is more concentrated, entrenched, and widespread, because some government officials are in it.

Iloilo, per Duterte’s list he read before the wake of the four NPA slain soldiers in Camp Panacam in Davao City has a Judge, a Governor, a number of Mayors and Vice Mayors and scores of policemen involved in the shabu trade.

Before Duterte read the personalities allegedly involved in the illegal drug trade, he made a disclaimer. His list could be true or not, although he ordered its validation. And because he read it, he’s the only one responsible for it.

Those personalities in the list he warned them that within 24 hours, they must go to their respective unit, give up, clear themselves, or face manhunt.

Most of the personalities mentioned in Duterte’s list beat the deadline.

Particularly for the police who presented themselves, PNP Chief Ronald dela Rosa gave them the utmost beating; he cursed, chastised, and castigated them to the bone.

Then told them: Tell all you know.

“Bato” dela Rosa’s statement is fully loaded. It seems one can see the rationale behind the “named-shamed” tactic of the Duterte’s list: that is to extract an intel from the deep strata of the illegal drug operation – meaning, “shabulizing” the Duterte’s List.

Potentially, the logic of Duterte’s list would short cut, enhance, and efficiently suppressed the scourge of illegal drugs.  Just in time for the 6-month target, or earlier, judging from how the drug campaign evolves.

As promised by those personalities in the Duterte’s List, out of fear for their life, a full cooperation would be expected of them. No hanky-panky game. Their deposition would be invaluable; they would be collated, assessed, and put teeth on it, and pin down whoever is responsible – then hopefully, shabu menace would be done over with.

Duterte’s List paid off unexpectedly.

Fralz Sabalones, the Vice Mayor of San Fernando, Cebu, who thought himself to be clean, out of mistaken identity, his name got into Duterte’s List. On the other hand, Franz Sabalones, his brother, who turned out to be the Central Visaya’s No. 2 Drug Lord, was excluded. Since the Vice Mayor’s brother wanted a new life, and for him to correct the mistaken identity, he accompanied him to surrender to the PNP Chief Ronald “Bato” dela Rosa.

And it turned out Franz Sabalones sang out vital information that the Crime Investigation Detection Group (CIDG) said, would give a fatal blow to the drug operation in the country.

An alternative meaning of “shabulized” came to light in this respect. It means an extraction of vital information from players that relates to the operation of illegal drugs.

Nice word invention with double entendre by Duterte.

 

 

 

 

The Quip That Made Them Blink

 

Whenever the president- elect Rody Duterte held midnight news conferences, where, as always, his talks centered on drugs and corruption, he couldn’t help himself but turn livid. It is as if an active volcano growled inside him.

 

One would know it when he raised his forehead and squinted his eyes. His lips stretched thin and skewed, while his right arm chopped the air with force. Then he spewed out his dirty ditty the famous of which, is his crunchy “put…ina”.

 

In most time, his anger led to tactlessness. Like when Duterte claimed that the media workers are killed for being corrupt, and as such, is not a guarantee that they can be protected by the freedom of the press.

 

“Kaya namamatay kasi karamihan diyan nabayaran na. They take sides or sobrahan ang atake, getting personal.

Just because you are a journalist you are exempted from assassination…” Duterte said.

 

Days before the news conference, Alex Balcoba, a “People’s Brigada” tabloid reporter was murdered.  Duterte was asked what his plan to solve the media killing.

 

As Duterte is well aware of the institutionalized corruption in the media industry – known in the trade as “attack-collect, defend-collect” (AC-DC) journalist, and this “Envelopmental Journalism” or “ATM Journalism” – so incensed, Duterte blurted out that journalists get killed because of corruption – as if to justify the murder.

 

Four news organizations and press freedom watchdogs reacted to Duterte’s claim.

 

The National Union of Journalist of the Philippines (NUJP) insinuated that it is an attempt for Duterte to silence the media. The group also emphasized that nothing, not even corruption, can justify the murder.

 

The Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility (CMFR), said some journalists have been killed because they exposed corruption in the government.

 

The Philippine Press institute (PPI) stressed that Duterte’s statement contradicted what it says in the statutory protection of the press to report without fear of reprisal.

 

The International Watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RWB) ask Duterte to apologize for his remarks and urge the Philippine Media to boycott Duterte’s news briefing.

 

The boycott idea even welcomed by the Duterte. He would not apologize. He does not care if gets publicity or not. He even lambasted the media of thinking too highly of themselves and warned them to make that news conference their last trip to Davao City. Meanwhile, Duterte will just use the PTV-4, the government-owned Television Station for his pronouncement and briefing. And he will not give interviews and press con for the rest of his term.

 

This would deny the news organizations of the pot of gold, because, admittedly, Duterte is a good copy. And at the same time, Duterte would be creating his own mouthpiece which, can contaminate the truth.

 

The NUJP was quick to point out they were not the one who suggested boycott but the international media watchdog. The media people blinked, so to speak.

 

The people in the media industry are in good company with the Catholic Bishop Conference of the Philippines (CBCP). Both organizations blinked, and have good lashings; because Duterte had the goods on them: Corruption.

 

What compelling argument did Duterte use to make these organizations “blinked” and keep them at bay?

 

Almost always during Duterte’s midnight press conferences this quip has been his favorite. Depending on which one he would lash out for the day because of corruption, he would just alter a word or two.

 

The following quip, he said this to the CBCP, but follow the same thread when he said this to the media industry people.

 

Duterte said: “I can sit the whole six years of the presidency exposing you and attacking you. I can lose my life and honor any time. I will not die if I don’t become President. So don’t f*** with me!”

The Peril of Haste

 

Angry. Desperate. Frustrated. These sentiments are what the people nourished and wish to impart as the reasons why they rooted for Digong Duterte.

Of course, the people’s sentiments are valid.

Who would not piss on the case, for example, of the “Tanim Bala” scam, an extortion racket of the airport personnel? And that random inspection of the Balikbayan Box of the OFWs with the covert intention of pilfering its contents? Furthermore, the aggravation people feel of the inefficiencies of the bureaucrats managing the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA)

Who would not be furious of the monstrous traffic the worker endures four to six hours of each working day? The unreliable MRT, LRT railway system which always conked out, that after its original operation and maintenance contract expired had been replaced with a mediocre company doing sloppy jobs.

Who would not be dismayed of those buy-bust operations or raid that yielded tons of “shabu” as the paper said, but silent about its inventory? Had it been recycled back on the street? Never these “shabu” had been burned for people to see. Why?

Who would not get outraged of the ravaged body of an old woman discovered inside the plastic drum floating on the Pasig River, and found that the perpetrator was the police, who supposed to be the woman’s protector?

People are fed up! Enough is enough.

Then, the election comes. It’s time for the voter to vent their outrage. Enter Digong Duterte.

Auspiciously, Digong Duterte came to the election scene donning an image of one who despise crime and drugs. A toughie who spewed expletives like chewing his chiclet, and who spouted off “I’ll kill you” mantra – to bolster his claim he means business.

The newly minted elite, those OFWs, and their families, the young entrepreneurs, and the Baby Boomer’s offspring that now comprised the ABC class was so enthralled of Digong Duterte’s gutter mouth. Enamored of his thuggish style; his rude, crude, and lewd humor. He is as if the new brand of politicians that don’t mind to appear bad in public. And no matter what, like a horse with blinder on, these newly minted elites believed he was the quick silver bullet solution to crime and corruption.

And these people jumped with ululation when they heard the sweetest words, they longed to hear to a politician. Duterte will stop crime and corruption in six months…! Wow. The peril of haste is looming!

Never mind if Duterte is a sick man with big “C”, a killer, a cuckoo, a flip-flop artist, a misogynist, a womanizer, a coddler and supporter of the NPA, a liar, and a fraud.

These, unravel coming from his own mouth. His latest flip-flop is his refusal to sign a bank waiver for his alleged 211 million bank accounts. He denied, then admitted this account, which he did not include in his 2015 SALN, per Sen. Trillanes.

Earlier in the campaign, Duterte and Cayetano signed a pseudo waiver. Now, Sen. Trillanes challenged him to sign a real one. But he didn’t have the balls to do it. A coward, Trillanes said.

Duterte’s Presidency, if ever, has it with him the whole shebang of ultimate disaster, chaos and turmoil. One of the frightening scenarios would be the likelihood of him declaring a revolutionary government when he didn’t get the kind of cooperation he wants from Congress and if threatened with impeachment.  As the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) is duty bound to adhere to the tenets of the constitution, of course, would not follow an unlawful order. The friction could escalate to civil war: events that the different rebel groups operating in the country are salivating for.

Mar Roxas said, if he gets elected he would have a clean slate for his cabinet. Now that he is too much aware of the anger, how desperate and frustrated the people are; who almost got hoodwinked by the quick solution the likes of Duterte offered, he would use his talents and expertise to address his predecessor’s shortcomings. And people are watching!