THE COMELEC AS THE HR DEPARTMENT OF THE GOVERNMENT

A corporation in order to be profitable should be ran by competent managers. Managers are hired through the HR department which sometimes avail of the services of experts just to make sure that the employees and the managers who are hired are the best available and affordabe in the market.

The COMELEC more or less has the same task as the HR. It has to facilitate that the best managers of government are elected so that the government can truly serve its purpose, that is, to serve the people because ours is a government of the people, by the people and for the people. But this is not being done by the COMELEC and as a result, so many officials who are not supposed to be there running the government are there or have been there and are actually there and will continue to be there. Once, the Chairman of the COMELEC has unashamedly and publicly admitted that they can not do anything about vote buying. Para silang pulis na umaming di nila kaya manghuli ng magnanakaw! Eh bakit sila nandyan? He and his colleagues have no business remaining in their positionSometimes, it is tempting, and with reason, to consider that the COMELEC is the one responsible why there are so many incumbent elective officials who are incompetent who have been causing this country to experience so many hardships unnecessarily.

Just lately, a COMELEC official was murdered. They say that it has something to do with his work as the chief legal officer of the COMELEC. That is for the police to determine why he was killed and who killed him. I would like to see the case instead from the angle where it was documented that the said government officer has been known to be a frequent player in the casino and he was found out to have three hundred thousand pesos with him on his way from the casino when he was murdered. A member of the finance department like the treasurer is not allowed by law to gamble much less in public because people's money may be used in hiss gambling activities. And here comes a government officer who has a say on the future of the nation, province, city, municipality or barangay depending on the outcome of his investigation on the electoral cases filed at his office. Due to his gambling habit, he is not only putting in danger people's money but the future of all the people in the locality where the winner or non-winner will serve if he succumbs to the temptation in favoring the litigant who is not the real choice of the people or who has actually violated election laws. His performance, non-performance or mal-performance therefore has a more far reaching consequence than that of a judge whose decision usually affects only a small number of persons.

Given the present state of the COMELEC if it continues, it will not be surprising if a great number of people will favor if it is abolished altogether. By so doing, at least there will be a need to replace it with a more workable because to say it bluntly, the present COMELEC is simply inutile. If the present COMELEC is allowed operate, how can we expect this country to prosper if like a corporation which incurs heavy losses, this country is being ran and continue to be run by so many incompetent and corrupt elective officials?

NOTHING UNUSUAL IN GIVING MONEY TO FELLOW OFFICIALS

Hi ! I am Rey Quijada, a last termer barangay captain. I am the husband of my only wife and a father of 13 children brought to this world by my only wife Helen who was my classmate in grade 1 and the only daughter of my grade 1 teacher. Since I graduated from U.P. in 1981with a degree in Industrial Engineering, it has always been my dream to help our country move forward. While many of my former classmates stayed in Manila to work, I intentionally came home to Mindanao in order to realize that dream. I do not know if I have done enough but one thing is sure, I will never stop in pursuing that dream habang may buhay. Sounds corny but I would rather be corny than be a fencesitter. I have sufferred so much and my family too in standing for what is right and shared the little that we have to our people firmly believing that God is never outdone in generosity. Yes I may sound corny to some people but I will try to continue doing my humble share in helping our only country thru this blog by sharing with you some of my insights and I also hope to generate some reactions from your end..

It is true that the giving out of money to Governors and Congressmen in Malacanang last October 11 is worth investigating and condemning. It was bribery pure and simple. From my end however as a barangay leader for the past 13 years, the practice is not UNUSUAL! Mayors buy the brgy captains and the municipal council for them to approve the budget esp the intelligence fund. The Govs buy likewise the Mayors and the Bokal for the budget and the intel fund to be approved. It follows that the Govs and the Cong are bought too. Last election, di ba the voters were bought too by the brgy and sk candidates? THE PROBLEM THEREFORE IS DEEP-SEATED ON US AS A PEOPLE! WE SHOULD BE MORALLY COURAGEOUS ENOUGH TO INVESTIGATE OURSELVES WHAT IS WRONG WITH US as the sovereign people AND TAKE THE NEEDED CORRECTIVE MEASURES. NOW AND NOT LATER. All is not lost. There is still hope. Besides the future does not belong to us the older ones AND SO WE DO NOT HAVE THE RIGHT TO LOSE HOPE.. It belongs to the youth including our children. We owe it to them. MERRY CHRISTMAS!