OPINION: Poor Gov’t Procedural System

During my stint as your active media practitioner at Bombo Radyo or at the height of the President Noynoy Aquino administration, a disgruntled police officer named Rolando Mendoza hijacked a tourist bus at Rizal Park, Manila with 25 people on board, mostly Chinese nationals.

The motive behind, investigations showed, was Mendoza’s demand for reinstatement to his previous post and the release of his benefits.

He slamed the government’s poor procedural system.

Another thing was the defection to the New People’s Army of retired General Raymundo Jarque, the reason behind of which was also the government’s poor procedural system.

The complaints against the poor procedural system and poor dealing of pending cases by government agencies have been hurled since several decades ago and even up to the present administration.

Few weeks ago, the same lamentation and experience of the family of a married couple in teaching profession named Alvariza Arroy and Christopher Arroy in Hinoba-an.

The couple was killed by school principal Warren Escobar because of Alvariza’s filing of complaint against him before the Office of the President. A complaint of Alvariza was earlier reported to the Hinoba-an Police Station.

The family of Alvariza lamented that the killings could have been prevented if the concerned government agency was sensitive enough to act on the complaint, or it could have outrightly resolved this case.

Back to the Mendoza hostage taking and the Jargue rebellion, those were the typical examples of poor government agency response.

We are now holding the 2022 election and candidates are into different promises but bureaucratic red tape is still around the corner.

The Filipino people are still suffering from double standards of justice, delayed response to numerous complaints of people especially those with less in life.

The retirement benefits intended for government employees are not addressed properly, with the complaints of poor people before police stations are sometimes treated as mere voices in the wilderness.

Government leaders said that rebellion is a protracted war but who authored this to proliferate, this ROTTEN AND VERY POOR PROCEDURAL SYSTEM. No presidential candidates offer any solution to this lingering problem. President Duterte solely focused more on the war against illegal drugs.

I challenge all government leaders and candidates to stop juicy promises.*