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?