Fights near PNP station /Lucrative money deals for bocaps

BULL'S HIT
Rudy Garcia

BAGUIO CITY -- For the nth time, another untoward incident happened at the 1st Kayang St. here Thursday 1 a.m. wherein two groups of young male bystanders for unknown reason clashed causing a free-for-all fight with some throwing stones and bottles at their opponents.

A concerned resident who witnessed the commotion rushed to the nearest and main police station a few meters away to report the incident. Well, the story was not clear when told to me, so we decided to go check the record the following day.

At police Station 7, it was a surprise that the incident was not recorded in their blotter? Not even a single word, so I wondered how come and why? Imagine, we went to the said police community precinct at about 5 pm of Jan. 20 and noted the last time an incident entered into their logbook was 9 p.m. on Jan. 19!

Holy cow, don’t they tell me that on that long time span of hours nothing untoward happened or was reported for record purposes. They can tell that to the Marines! Now, I wonder no more why the Baguio City Police brags about the decrease of crime rates in this city.

Only recorded incidents perhaps are made as their reference, and how about those unrecorded ones that are blown away and gone with the wind? Simple ratio in mathematics would give a right answer to anyone’s guess. Whew!
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Barangay residents choose their officials and oftentimes they regret their chosen candidates who won but don’t meet their expectations.

I am not saying that this is now happening in lower Magsaysay Barangay, but perhaps an inch close to the forgoing if reports are true that some of these barangay officials are really doing some monkey business in their area of responsibility.

First is the proposed resolution of the three kagawads who urged jeepney associations with the route La Trinidad-Baguio to pay 10 pesos for every unit of jeepney that enters and exists at the parking ground in Tabora Park (formerly Rabbit sinkhole).

Now, according to an official of a jeepney association, a jeep could make seven trips a day and there are almost a total of 180 jeeps all in all for that route. So 10 pesos multiplied by seven trips is 70 pesos the barangay could get for one unit a day.

You multiply it with 180 and that would make a whooping 12,600 pesos a day. The barangay therefore would be earning P378,000 in just one month. Wow, what a very good source of fund raising.

However, it remains a question where the money would go, and if the kagawads insist the resolution is legitimate, why was there no consultation with concerned transport groups earlier?

Did the committee on public utilities in the city council approve this resolution? Secondly, how true is it that the “Bigmac” kiosk standing beside Summit Bank are giving P 6,000 monthly to the two neighboring barangay captains? Accordingly, the 3,000 pesos per month goes to the barangay captain of Sto. Nino Barangay, a certain Tacbas, while the other P3,000 reportedly goes to barangay captain Boy Amagen of Lower Magsaysay.

If these are true, then the duo could have made an agreement to be partners in the big C. Thirdly, is the alleged collection of P50 per day from all vendors with no exception true? Kahit nagtitinda lamang daw ng mani ay kinokolektahan.

So if they have around 10 vendors, it is another P500 a day or P15,000 a month.

Aba mayaman pala ang Lower Magsaysay. Am I right punong barangay Boy Amagen? And how about those reported business establishments at Sunnyside Building, and those nearby who don’t have business permit, but instead your kagawad collecting certain amounts from them?

Do you know, or have you given the blessing to this kagawad, who accordingly is the brother of some of the business owners? If not, then don’t tell me you are now a member of the “bulag, pipi, bingi at inutil” bandwagon. Gising!