By Mortz C. Ortigoza
Rose Buenaflor, niece of Health Secretary Paulyn
Jean Buenaflor Rosell-Ubial (like Agriculture Secretary Manny Pinol, both of
them are my town mate in M’lang, Cotabato) told me Ubial and her Iloilo based
farmer husband Edwin lived in a modest condominium in Pasay.
I staggered upon seeing the photos of Rose and the Ubials
inside the condominium, the DOH Secretary lives a modest life while directors
of government hospitals in the Philippines splurged with their unexplained
wealth like palatial mansions and fleet of expensive cars thanks but no
thanks to the up to 30 percent S.O.P or cut they fleeced from contractors and
suppliers.
S.O.P or standard operating procedure, a euphemism,
concocted by the malefactors in the government and their conspirators in the
private sectors are usually done when a contractor or supplier, say of
medicine, transact with a government office.
“Those at the
DOH are more corrupt, “I told Harold Barcelona on our daily radio program.
“They are not only Tulisan (Brigand), they are “Three-lisan”
(from a play of words Two-lisan to Three-lisan),” Harold declared.
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Aside from the Bureau of Customs, Land Transportation
Office, and the Bureau of Internal Revenue that President Rodrigo Duterte called
earlier as most corrupt agencies, he should pounce too at the Register of
Deeds and those in the municipal and provincial assessors office.
If these officials choose to shoot it out with the police, the cops know already what to do like the way they did to narc pushers.
If these officials choose to shoot it out with the police, the cops know already what to do like the way they did to narc pushers.
A corrupt assessor official could make a sleight of hand
tricks for a huge fee to declassify the land the vendor sells to the vendee
from commercial to either residential or agricultural.
