The current investigations of both the failed but still workable heavy equipment issue slammed against the Remollo administration, and the P3Million aid-for-poor in the form of free electrical installation which lasted until election season must serve as a lesson of past excesses of local governments who pride themselves as awardees of the seal of good governance from DILG.

Where they got this brand of good governance is something we has yet to be explained. But whose and what standard is that kind of good governance that is coupled with graft? We have yet to know.

For 15 years the city used the controversial equipment for public works. When election week came, suddenly the equipment were branded as a product of graft and no longer usable. When the Remollo administration took over, the said equipment suddenly became workable and usable . In fact it sped up the beach volleyball leveling work. Somebody who lied under oath is liable for perjury very soon.

Now here comes this multi million assistance for electrical installation for indigent homes. Why did the vice mayor sign in behalf of the mayor who is the executive officer? No authority for him to do that was given. Everybody is now washing their hands for any accountability. Someone has to answer that before the Ombudsman.

It is commendable that the City Council is initiating investigations on anomalies and malpractices of the past in the hope of rectifying the excesses of local governance not only in the past but in previous administrations.

And if this city administration will also be remiss in some ways, they will also suffer the same fate after their terms shall have expired, if the next administration will be as progress-oriented as they are now.

Right from the start we knew that the heavy equipment issue was a product of political envy and intrigue in that the administrators were sustained in the end even by the higher courts.

Next we have this P3M anomaly in installing hundreds of electrical connections in poor houses but it was found out that the beneficiaries were political supporters of the past city administration in that the opposition were denied same access. Worse it was the vice mayor and not the mayor who was allegedly the star ultra vires player.

Only recently, six imported bullet proof vests for the police were missing . Thanks to Rep. Sagarbarria the former mayor, who found the items and returned them to the city. Thanks Ting.

"For marriage to
survive, spouses must kill ones' pride and let humility reign."