By MORTZ C. ORTIGOZA
Local Government Secretary Mar Roxas, a presidential
wannabe, has been aggressive in barnstorming the country and putting his
national TV, radio, and newspaper’s daily info-mercial to shore up his pathetic
surveys image.
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| KICK BACK.The overpriced KIA 2700 police patrol cars that Department of Interior &Local Government Secretary Mar Roxas and the police purchased at P1.9 million each or a spike of alleged kick backed of P740,000 each or an overpriced of P155 million for the 210 vehicles. |
Former Speaker Joe de Venecia told me years ago, when his
son Joey ran for the 2010 Senate election, that a 30-seconder advertisement at
ABS-CBN and GMA-7 ran between P200 to P300 thousand.
Moneyed politicians normally have three to five 30-seconders
on each of the national TVs.
Where did Roxas get all the monies when his monthly salary is
a pittance at the Department of Interior & Local Government?
First, according to Abono Party-list Chair Rosendo So, whose
family owns the Toyota Display and Service Centers in the cities of Baguio and
Dagupan, the 210 new modified KIA 2700 vehicles cost P1.9 million each after
Roxas and the Philippine National Police purchased them and showed them to the
media as the result of the “Daang Matuwid (straight path)”.
So said on his Face Book page that it was an overpriced of
P740 each or P155 million to all of the cars.
Anak ng baka anong bukol ito? Hindi pa natin pinag-uusapan dito iyong big
discout sa huge purchase na ito sa patrol car na may makina na ginto from the
management ng KIA.
Second, when Bert Lina was plucked as the commissioner of
the Bureau of Custom, many suspected that he is there to raise six billion
pesos campaign funds for Roxas.
They said the honest and uncompromising former Commissioner
John Sevilla resigned last April because he could no longer stand the
“political nature” and continued corruption hounding the BoC while others said
he was unceremoniously replaced by President Benigno Aquino III because he could
not be manipulated to do the billing for Roxas’s ambition.
Lina got the goat lately of the overseas foreign workers
(OFW) when he ordered that Balikbayan or OFW boxes would be subjected to random
check up for taxable items.
The brouhaha against Lina had been raised to a higher
decibel after Custom Deputy Commissioner Jessie Dellosa and brass of sugar
planters rose raucous that 182 metric tons of smuggled sugar had entered the
country since May this year at the expense of local planters and workers.
Other critics assailed Lina too of unabated smuggling of
agricultural products, petroleum, and others.
Third, another source of funds for Roxas can be taken from
illegal gambling game jueteng. Did I tell you before on my past column that in
Pangasinan alone Meridiane (played like the illegal game jueteng) earns P5
million a day ( you can access my article at https://northwatch.wordpress.com/2014/12/21/ortigoza-p10m-bets-daily-from-gambling-in-pangasinan/).
With 81 provinces and the 17 cities and towns
that composed Metro Manila in the entire country that host jueteng, Meridian,
Last-2, massiao, and other illegal betting games, and each of these provinces and
those in Metro Manila contributes say P500 thousand a day or P49 million for
all of them, that would be a staggering P1.47 billion campaign funds a month to
spike the pathetic poll stocks of Roxas in his march to the May 2016
presidential election.