Peryahan grease money / Trash talk

BULL’S HIT
Rudy Garcia

BAGUIO CITY -- I was wrong in saying that the peryahan “cum” pasugalan at the slaughter house of Sto. Niño Barangay in Baguio city packed their things and transferred to La Trinidad, Benguet, my apologies.

This peryahan of a certain king Arthur is still there operating courtesy of some top city and barangay officials who like the said operator got a good bonus for the extension of its permit to operate that is supposedly to expire December last year.

According to my source, the first option of this peryahan is to transfer its operation at Lower Magsaysay, formerly Rabbit sinkhole, but it was not able to get the nod of some city hall officials. Maybe it is true that the other peryahan made elbow rubbing at city hall to block the permit of this peryahan, and perhaps King Arthur is now having a hard time collecting the refund he gave as advance payment for the supposed agreement to a top barangay official.

It is his business anyway and that to gamble, one either wins or loses, just like his gambling patrons, coming in and out of his place either with money in pockets or none at all. Needless to say, he was the loser this time.

Anyway, he made some of the city and barangay officials happy for giving them part of the pie and some media, non-government organizations, police among others whom he made them bulag, pipi, at bingi, for a few barya. Whew! I don’t think I need to beg pardon to these beggars.
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I wonder no more why this long garbage problem in Baguio has not been resolved, and sad to say that it will stay longer unless the city mayor, councilors and the solid waste management of CEPMO would be one in taking the right track to solve this problem.

Baguio people may not know it but the Vice Mayor of Pulilan Bulacan offered and did something good but he was disgusted by the attitude of some city officials and the mayor himself.

Instead of spending so much for the garbage hauling, the good Bulacan Vice Mayor introduced a system that would benefit Baguio. But then after a mutual agreement with the Baguio mayor, problems arose when some departments didn’t cooperate after some efforts to start this project by the vice mayor.

Worst, the city mayor has seemingly no political will and palabra de honor to stand pat with the agreement. If it is true that the vice mayor of Pulilan is now getting impatient and mad because “puro drawing lang daw ang mayor”, this is something Baguio should be ashamed of.