When Vicente Emano was Mayor of Cagayan De Oro from 1998 to 2007, he quite purposefully and knowingly (and against the pleading of scientists and scholars) built a bridge across the Cagayan River that went right through (and hence destroyed) the un-excavated archaeological remains of Huluga, an ancient settlement, and the oldest known evidence of human activity in The Philippines. Mayor Emano actually said at the time, "For me, the bridge is more important than heritage." (Ironically, the bridge that was then-Mayor Emano's pet project is almost completely unused today.)While Vicente Emano may go down in history as being remembered for the cultural atrocity of Huluga, apparently he isn't done annoying people yet: It seems that at his new job as the Vice Mayor, he is garnering himself a whole new host of critics: He has missed 95 of the 96 sessions of city council. One local blog calls him "the laziest vice mayor ever." The fact that his 95th absence comes only 2 days after Mayor Jarula fined or suspended 42 workers... 39 of them for tardiness and/or absences, makes this story particularly rich.
Since Jarula is retiring next year makes you wonder where the city is head ing . :-)
ReplyDeleteHappy to discuss this off - line in further detail . :-)
i remember editing that story... the one posted on the blog and credited to "northern mindanao.com"... that's gold star's story. :-)
ReplyDelete@Jungle Jill - Thanks for the link to my Blog - Himantayon-cagayan.info.
ReplyDelete@Zerobull - I am sorry if I credited the story to northern mindanao.com, I have found it there and they also didn't put a credit to gold star so i supposed it was theirs. Anyway, just give me the link where this article has been published in Gold Star site and will change the credit.