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09/02/2010 Justice Secretary Leila de Lima, speaking with reporters said that if necessary, she would summon President Aquino, as well as Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) chief, Jesse Robredo, her co-chairman in the probe body, for them to shed light on the botched hostage rescue operations. Obviously, that’s all for show. She certainly wouldn’t dare summon Noynoy Aquino to even “shed light” on what he was doing all that time, because if she did, Noynoy and his boys who claim to have been in Emerald Restaurant on Roxas Boulevard, in front of the US Embassy, would be found to have been lying through their teeth, since it has been confirmed by the restaurant staff, as well Robredo, that Noynoy arrived at Emerald after 8:30 p.m., or after the hostages were already killed. His secretaries, such as Robredo, were there some 30 minutes early as they were summoned by Noynoy to a meeting. And even as Noynoy was already near the area of the hostage taking, it still took him over four hours to make an appearance, made worse by wearing a smile on his face. So it has been established that neither he nor his officials were in Emerald monitoring the situation the whole time. So where were they? In the Palace playing billiards while the hostage drama was ongoing? Or was it case of Noynoy not being able to decide what to do or say because he failed to get his sisters’ consensus? All the explanations he has made appear to be based on lies and his communications chiefs, in a bid to cover up for his appalling deficiencies as a leader when crisis befalls the government, were also engaging in lies, to save Noynoy’s political hide. Another detail that has been found out: DILG chief Robredo is only half a DILG chief, as the mandate given to him by Noynoy was for him to merely take charge of the local governments, but not the Philippine National Police (PNP). This task has been given by Noynoy to the DILG undersecretary, Rico Puno, who is apparently, another half secretary, as the PNP is his domain. The situation then is one of the appointed secretary (Robredo) bowing to his undersecretary (Puno) in police matters, as this has been ordered off limits by Nonoy to Robredo. One already clearly sees the lack of management and administrative skills, not to mention the absence of leadership of Noynoy with this kind of set-up in his Cabinet. As Robredo says, in reaction to calls for him to take responsibility and for him to resign: He was out of the loop during the crisis situation. Why should this be so? Easy, that’s because his officials are made up of two factions, each faction wanting more power within the government. But there may also be an additional reason for Noynoy giving Robredo, who belongs to the Roxas power bloc, half the job of the DILG and giving Puno, of the so-called Samar Group with the Sisters Inc. and the Noynoy yellows, the PNP side of the equation. Noynoy and his Samar Group may well be insecure in handing control of the PNP to Robredo, who os allied with the Roxas group, or the Balay Puti group. After all, it has always been the PNP that saved the day for Gloria, when she was in Malacañang. Similarly, as admitted by one of three communications officials of Noynoy, there has not been assigned a point man among them, to speak before the media, but that now they will thresh this out among themselves. This is an appalling situation that only reinforces the impression that Noynoy Aquino is only president in name but not in deed, and that he truly cannot be expected to lead the nation because he has been proven to be an incompetent manager and administrator, who is moreover surrounded by equally incompetent officials. Noynoy appoints his Cabinet and other officials without as much as clarifying what role each is tasked with? And when he does — as in the case of Robredo and Puno, it is certainly a stupid way to have a department run. God help this country under Noynoy Aquino.
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