Going Back to Leni. I believe she will have the most inclusive governance without having to give in to the tantrums of any sector or anyone.
inclusive, aba that got me thinking! duterte did try to include leftists and aktivistas in his gabinete early on, terry ridon and judi tugiwalo among others.
turn out the leftists and aktivistas were not self starters, lol! they were good at yelling and shouting and abusing pedestrians, etc. noise up to 103 decibels and have well and truly honed their heckling skills. out from the streets and into the boardroom, and what a cultural shock that was! became nearly quiet as a mouse and cannot amp up their vocal cords, ong the literati, lol!
one such leftist appointee became travel addict, rack up travel points visiting very expensive cities like rome, paris and praque, all for the pursuit of knowledge. gotta be on par with elitists, see! got selfies taken in those cities too. did he become better govt worker? doubt it, he was often away on overseas study trips, 17 trips on his 1st year as govt worker alone. in the end, duterte fire the leftist whose best contribution to the new job was the copious travel receipts.
And to emphasize, even more, a lot different from that lying corrupt brat and lazy child inhabiting an adult body – I end the comparison before the dash. Surely, unless you were born on Mars, it is clear as day who that person is.
In the military nowadays, someone is a voice of reason – Col Mike Logico. If you have someone like him leading NTF-ELCAC and Robredo is commander in chief, insurgency may finally see its end. But then, we need Leni to win first.
As per JoeAm’s focus in writing the article, Robredo got the flak for meeting with the officers running the agency
Just to make sure the boundaries are not overstretched to the max, the mere creation of an agency, might as we want to, does not guarantee the resolution of the persisting insurgency problem in the country. However, an agency could considerably contribute in minimizing the impact of the problem and lessen casualties on all sides if such agency effectively and constructively works on all sides of the aisle. Meaning, it complies with its mandate by justifying its existence.
Unfortunately, that is not what the NTF-ELCAC is, at least, from the eyes of some presidential aspirants, notably Robredo and Lacson.
And the source of the flak was her own statement expressing her desire to abolish the agency once she becomes president. As an executive creation, the fate of the NTF-ELCAC is solely in the hands of an incoming commander in chief. Will Robredo, if ever, do (abolish) what she intends to do with the agency?
Issues of strategic concern and funding problem hounds the agency
Yours truly believes that the NTF-ELCAC is an essential tool to make far-reaching and productive changes in the government’s counterinsurgency approach. If abolished, the campaign will suffer and whatever gains accomplished will be reversed back. The point is that doing away an existing and running agency is not going forward, it’s counterproductive.
The incoming president does not only have the duty but also the right to make changes and adjustments affecting official policies and strategies coming from agencies attached under the Office of the President. In short, being the brains of the bureaucracy, she/he has power to customize the approach to a given problem according to her/his style of governance. Given this fact, a better option is to review the agency’s mandate for the purpose of overhauling and re-strategizing the whole set of governmental methodology in addressing the problem.