Conflict of interest issues hound P-Noy’s Customs picks
For the wang-wang to have figured so prominently, and in a negative way at that, in President Noynoy Aquino’s much-anticipated inaugural speech at the Luneta last week, we can only surmise that it must have been associated with some really unfortunate previous experience, so much so that whenever he found himself riding in his car and out of the blue would hear them blaring in the distance to announce the arrival of some VIP’s convoy, it would conjure up some bitter memory of his distant past. That it was placed in paragraph no. 6 of the very first page of his finely-crafted Tag-lish speech bespeaks its significance in the life of the newly-minted chief executive. Taking its cue from P-Noy, the monicker which Mr. Aquino wishes to go by, Malacañang officials dutifully announced they would henceforth be strictly enforcing the provisions of the existing Presidential Decree No. 96 that limits the use of wang-wangs — street lingo for the obnoxious sirens that had come to be de rigeur for the cars of powerful politicians, businessmen, police and military officers, etc. wishing to beat the suffocating traffic jams that have been bedeviling Metro Manila motorists for so many years now — only to official vehicles assigned to the Office of the President, the Vice President, Senate President, Speaker of the House of Representatives and Supreme Court Chief Justice, as well as the Philippine National Police, the Armed Forces of the Philippines, the Land Transportation Office, the National Bureau of Investigation, the Bureau of Fire Protection and hospital ambulances. Source: The Daily Tribune URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20100704com4.html |
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