Grand Plan at the Kingdom by the River (5)

By Peter G. Jimenea, HOLE OF JUSTICE

I have kept my word not to hit King Tura as I had already exhausted my energy riling at the previous administration, that of King Bungs because of what the Trio Los Bobos , namely, Kuyabog the ring leader, Sirum-Sirum and his ka-love team Tibakla, had been doing there.

Of the trio, only Tibakla remains. Sirum-Sirum is already in the freezer and Tibakla has packed up her belongings from the office of Sirum-Sirum. Kuyabog now works for somebody else not connected to the kingdom.

I am wondering, Tibakla’s own office is spacious, more than enough to keep her wardrobe but for quite a time, she had made the office of Sirum-Sirum her virtual aparador where she stored even her pieces of underwear. During seminars outside the kingdom, she and Sirum-Sirum did the kingdom a favour by saving on accommodations. Instead of staying in separate rooms in hotels, they share one. How conscientious of them. Tibakla, now key player in Oplan Pagbag-o, is looking for a new ka-love team.

Oplan Pagbag-o is still at work at the Kingdom by the River. The most visible pagbag-o that came about was Hydrocephallus, a newcomer becoming the head of the Kawkaw division. His instant ascent is followed by the questionable merger of three offices into Kawpid, a super office, with him heading it, despite his disqualification both in terms of academic attainment and experience. He further usurped the powers and functions of Ma’am Malou as information officer which is illegal because that position is  not vacant and two, Hydrocephallus skirted the process of passing through the employee selection board, a requisite to promotion.

But Malou is no pushover. She has sought refuge to the Civil Service Commission questioning the brazen abuse of power, her illegal demotion, her constructive termination, and the usurpation by Hydrocephallus of her functions.

She had held her ground against Kuyabog in the previous administration, there is no reason she would cave in this time. May I suggest she also file a complaint before the CHR because what is happening to her is clear abuse of power and violation of her rights.

Because of her principled stand, Hydrocephallus and Tibakla deleted the names of Ma’am Malou and her assistant Bikya from the payroll. Their only fault, if fault it may be, is that they resist the arbitrariness of Oplan Pagbag-o which wants them to file to the personnel office their new job positions and descriptions which are different from the ones approved and kept in the files of the Civil Service Commission. For instance, instead of submitting her position and job description as “kingdom information officer”, Ma’am Malou is made to submit her new one, which is Administrative Assistant V, which she rightly opposes. Insakto bala ‘na?

With poor Ma’am Malou and Bikya being not in the payroll, they will also not receive salaries. Not even under the reign of King Bungs and King Rading has such brazen abuse happened!

Oplan Pagbag-o is component of the “Grand Plan” hatched by Hydrocephallus’s master Bigboy who thinks the seat of King Tura would be his in a short while. That thinking is premised on the scenario that King Tura’s health is deteriorating fast and he will likely not finish his term.

With that, Oplan Pagbag-o is laying the ground to seize power and dislodge those who are disloyal or potentially disloyal to Bigboy. Hydrocephallus’s team is expanding. He now has in the league his hydrocephalic twin Boy Bakling, Ellen of Troy,  Tibakla, Mamasang, Jijimon Mutya, and Dok Kagaw.

The Grand Plan includes seizure of key money making programs. Oplan Pagbag-o is now working to take the disaster management which has P60 million funding, the school board P100 million, the IT section of the planning office headed by Tom and Joel, the function of the general services office of publication of public biddings.

Previously, Hydrocephallus’s Kawkaw division had only P1.9 million budget but with the combined Kawkaw, information and radio room sections (Kawpid), he now has P9.7 million at his disposal.

Hydrocephallus attempted to re-channel P10 million in intelligence fund from the budget of King Tura to Kawkaw. He gave up the plan after sensing that opposition Board Jeri would grill him until he fries himself.

Oplan Pagbag-o is indeed pagbag-o, but this time for the worse, with an incompetent and oppressive Hydrocephallus ascending to the corridors of power in the Kingdom by the river. Since becoming Kawkaw chief, he has not crafted a single program of action, nor attained an achievement he could call his own. As pretender to the throne of the information office, he has not churned a single press release or feature article to promote the image of the kingdom.

His dark past will continue to haunt him. His over-eagerness to copy verbatim others’ press releases, too lazy even to rewrite them para padismular, cost him his job from a national broadsheet. The word “plagiarist” will always precede his name.

Previous to his employment in the kingdom, he bullied his officemates that further cost him his as communications consultant of the Canadian Urban Institute (CUI). His colleagues at the office in Guam(aras) unanimously filed a petition sacking him which CUI acted on unfavourably for Hydrocephallus.

He is indeed sick!