Bayani won't go to congress

House to force Fernando to attend hearings

By DELON PORCALLA and RHODINA VILLANUEVA
The Philippine Star

http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/storypage.aspx?StoryId=129761

Two senior House members have filed a resolution that would compel Metro Manila Development Authority Chairman Bayani Fernando to attend hearings after he snubbed a recent Commission on Human Rights (CHR) hearing over MMDA’s cases of alleged unlawful evictions of sidewalk vendors.

Its about time

House Resolution 723, authored by Reps. Roilo Golez of Parañaque and Matias Defensor of Quezon City, directs the committee on human rights to hold hearings on human rights violations of the MMDA and force its chairman to rebut the charges.

Fernando, however, shrugged off reports that the two congressmen filed a resolution to question him on alleged human rights violations committed by the agency against sidewalk vendors.

"The proper venue for that is the court. I will only submit myself to investigation or interrogation only if it will be done through court proceedings," Fernando said in an interview.

Investigation nga ito. wala ka bang alam sa batas? may powers ang congress para tawagin mga opisyal ng executive branch. kasama doon si bayani. baka naman akala ni bf monarchy tayo at siya ang hari.

He said "it is already outside the power of Congress to intervene in such matters which... are being treated as a political issue."

ano tawag mo sa mga billboards ni bayani? hindi ba may political motives siya. praning lang si BF.

"Not one of them is even my congressman. They should not interfere on things like this. What they should attend to are the needs of their respective constituents," Fernando added.

The statements of Bayani Fernando only shows he's not fit to be president of the philippines. walang alam sa batas. sus kahit anong committee sa congress pwede kang tawagin. bakit ba ayaw pumunta ni bayani fernando sa congress? ano ba kinatatakot nya? akala ko ba matapang siya. baka naman ang kaya nya lang eh ang mga sidewalk vendors. teka hindi pala nya kaya mga sidewalk vendors. sige nga bayani, punta ka sa quiapo at paalisin mo lahat ng mga vendors doon na nag iisa. hindi mo kasama ang mga goons mo ha. ewan ko lang kung makakauwi ka ng marikina ng buhay.

In a joint statement, Golez and Defensor branded Fernando as "callous" after he continuously refused to answer complaints against the MMDA filed before the CHR by sidewalk vendors and informal settlers in Metro Manila, who have all been victims of the agency’s harsh and "inhuman eviction."

"Fernando… has not attended the hearings before the CHR, showing his disregard not only for the rule of law but also for his responsibility to account and be responsible for his actions and the enforcement and implementation by his men," they said.

di ba ang mga taong may ugaling urbanidad eh masunirin sa batas? eh ano itong ugali ni bayani? bakit ayaw nya pumunta sa mga hearings na ito. may tinatago ba siya? hmmm....

Golez, a known critic of Fernando, said there is a need for a House probe, as he cited a news report in which CHR chairwoman Leila de Lima said the MMDA is being "very highhanded. Their approach is authoritarian, and that is not good. The illegal settlers should be helped, not treated that way. It has become really alarming."

Golez, who belongs to the opposition bloc, said the MMDA "should not employ excessive or unnecessary violence on street vendors and resort to the destruction of their means of livelihood, nor resort to illegal or unlawful means in carrying out their functions."

Defensor, chairman of the House committee on justice, said even the Presidential Commission for the Urban Poor, in its report, observed flaws in the conduct by the MMDA of its demolition and eviction operations in urban poor communities.

"The patently harsh and whimsical method by which the MMDA is carrying out its operations constitutes human rights violations," he said.

Fernando’s AM station on hold

Meanwhile, several congressmen have decided to hold in abeyance a legislative franchise sought by the MMDA to put up a nationwide AM radio station , even if the agency’s scope is just within the metropolis.

Ano!?! Meron na ngang radio station ang MMDA at Marikina City, gusto pa nya ng isa. sobra na ito. by the way may nakikinig bang tao sa mga radio stations ng MMDA at Marikina? what a waste of public funds.

DZBF (Radyo ng Marikina 1674 kHz Metro Manila)

The franchise is covered by a bill filed by Fernando’s townmate, Marikina Rep. Del de Guzman.

I bet utos ito ni BF na magfile ng bill ang kanyang townmate

Defensor, Judy Syjuco of Iloilo and Nanette Castelo-Daza of Quezon City and Ruffy Biazon of Muntinlupa City expressed apprehension that Fernando might use it as a campaign vehicle for his presidential bid in 2010 "with or without the support" of his party, the ruling Lakas-Christian Muslim Democrats.

Iloilo Rep. Ferjenel Biron, who heads the House committee on legislative franchises, is "doubtful" of the radio station’s objective, as MMDA already has a newspaper known as Pahayagan ng Bayan in which pictures of Fernando are the "main features" of its issues.

kapal talaga. ano akala nya sa taong bayan, tanga?

"We will give him (Fernando) the benefit of the doubt that the proposed radio station is not in pursuit of his political plans," Biron said, who hinted that if ever a franchise is granted to MMDA, the congressional permit will only be confined to Metro Manila.

The lawmakers said that the station could duplicate the functions of existing government broadcast facilities.

The deliberations were also suspended because Fernando did not attend the hearing, no documents were presented to prove the MMDA Council – composed of Metro Manila’s 17 mayors – approved the application for franchise, and the lack of endorsement from the Office of the Press Secretary.

hahaha... BUKING!!!