Maribojoc Mayor vs Red Cross

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Sun, October 27, 2013 | 6:46:16 p.m. PHL

Editorial: In defense of Sir JunWednesday, October 23, 2013

THE most maligned in the midst of the humanitarian situation in Bohol is Maribojoc Mayor Leoncio B. Evasco, Jr. all because of a claim by the Philippine Red Cross that he wanted to gettheir relief goods and insinuated that he wanted to gain political mileage from it.

Maligned and insulted in social networking sites, Mayor Jun stood his ground, and rightfully so.The uninformed fed by th e more uninformed are claiming this is about “epal”. It’s not. There issomething wrong from the very claim of the Red Cross itself.

We Dabawenyos have seen how local authorities were tapped to attend to the typhoon Pablovictims. We of Region 11 have known how lack of coordination with locals has deprived remotecommunities from getting much-needed help. It took the massive effort of civil society to bringto the national agencies’ attention that starving victims in hinterland villages, almost a monthafter typhoon Pablo. This time, the Red Cross in Bohol wants to do it all by themselves inMaribojoc, one of the hardest hit towns in rural Bohol.

But of course, many will say Red Cross is adept at giving out humanitarian aid, and that is their job. How they can accomplish their job without knowing the terrain and the situation, however,is one big question that those who are quick to malign should first examine. Crisis Managementhas always involved coordination between locals and relief service institutions, the Red Crossincluded. To ensure that everyone gets a piece of the relief goods trickling in past the brokenbridges and roads, there has to be a system in place. That will require knowing the barangays,where the people are, how many they are, and who were already recipients of earlier relief

assistance. Mayor Jun wanted this. But no, he is accused of derailing relief operations for hispersonal aggrandizement.

The people who know Mayor Jun for what he is are thus howling in outrage. Unfair.

To the clueless, the ignorant, and the presumptuous, Mayor Jun have served the people morethan any politician had.

He started adult life in priesthood, saw the sufferings of the masses at the height of Martial Lawand thus took up arms.

He was enticed to join public s ervice as officer in charge of the Davao City Engineer’s Office theyear after Davao City Mayor Rodrigo R. Duterte’s first ever term as city mayor in 1989. He

became the mayor’s chief of staff the following year until 1996. He then was made to head theCity Economic Enterprise from 1996-1998 and served as chief of staff of Duterte in his first andonly term as congressman in 1998- 2001. Evasco returned as chief of staff of the City Mayor’sOffice in 2001-2004, and copped his served to Davao again as OIC City Engineer from 2004-2007.He ensured smooth operations for the city and never hogging the limelight. He was just thewhite-haired taller than average man who was running the show; he was the white-haired mancivil society groups worked with, he was the front-liner who came in to settle things in his soft-spoken style. He dodged acknowledgements and never demanded for one. He wore no politicalcolor, he was just the City Hall’s action man.



After almost two decades of service to Davao City, he decided to bring his expertise in localgovernance to his hometown in Bohol and thus run and won as municipal mayor of Maribojoc in2007. This is his last term as town mayor.

For two terms, he served his town well and the once unknown Maribojoc was battling it out withthe big guys in terms of tourism, environment protection, heritage protection, but most of all,Maribojoc is one of very few rural towns who have a website where you can check out statusesof government projects and their accomplishment reports. Transparency is a keystone to Mayor Jun’s style of governance.

As a result, in his two terms, he garnered for his rural town several awards among which wasthe Seal of Good Housekeeping given by President Benigno C. Aquino III in 2011. Maribojoc wasthe only town from Bohol that received such a seal, which is a recognition by the Interior andLocal Government Department of excellent governance.

His effort to ensure that everyone gets a piece of whatever comes is now called an attempt tohoard relief goods. Others are insisting he should just welcome everyone, never mind if thesepeople prefer to choose whom they give help to. While another one likened the action to a partywhere someone will be bringing gifts intended for specific people. All saying, Evasco is wrongand bad. How fast people can malign without even understanding the extent of the problem. If this is how we interpret decisive leadership, then no wonder we do not have any inkling aboutwhat crisis management and humanitarian leadership means.

People’s Res ponse: CLAN ASSISTANCE SYSTEM (CAS)

In another blog and report, it was mentioned that the mayors or politicians have three or four advantages that make them more qualified to handle the Relief System in their respective towns,namely: 1) they know the place or terrain very well, 2) they know their own people, e.g., their needs,much better than the outsiders, 3) they have in their possession the more or less complete facilities toperform the relief operation, and 4) they most likely have the experience in previous calamities.

Against Red Cross, Mayor Evasco of Maribojoc town, or any mayor for that matter, has the firstadvantage. Red Cross has a general expertise as to the needs of people, or victims, much more thanany politician has because Red Cross has been there in almost all tragedies and not just in one town,but all over the province or nation!

What advantage the mayor may have in point 2 is that he knows the names of the people more thanRed Cross does, or who is to contact.

In point 3 & 4, Red Cross and other experienced NGOs cannot be equaled.

It cannot be denied though that a teamwork between LGU and NGO is better than anything else. Sadly,this is not the case with Maribojoc.

What has become a lack of tact or a kind of disrespectfulness on the part of the mayor is when he madethe impression that he would erase the Red Cross from the view of the people and therefore by default,make another impression that such help or assistance comes from the mayor!...which is not nice tothink about.

The problem with politicians is they are thief of the limelight, they steal the credit, they ride on as manyoccasions and opportunities, services and achievements where they had not worked hard for.

That is where it is very ugly.



That is why donor individuals, or private groups are avoiding the politicians, despite the advantages of their terrain knowledge or what.

THE PRESENT PRIVATE OR INDIVIDUAL DONORS ARE THINKING OF….

In this age of advanced communication and transportation system, Mayors do not have advantage over

the individuals working alone or as a small groups to meet certain needs.I can attest to that as I am encouraging our people to USE THE BY CLAN APPROACH TO MEETINGTHE NEEDS OF THE PEOPLE, ON A CLAN BASIS.

What is a clan? Answer: It can be the group of families stemming from one grandparents. So, it iscomposed of the grandparents, the parents, the children and grandchildren.

You can expand the definition of a clan by including the great grandparents and their greatgrandchildren.

Or you can expand the clan by including the sisters and brothers of your great grand parents and grandparents and their own great grand children, etc.

It depends on you.

Clan is bound by family name or blood relation. It is led by a father, or grandfather, or great grandfather.

This is where both the politician and the NGO must salute as far as helping the clan is concerned. Hereis why:

1) the Clan knows the terrain or route and location better. Even if some of its members are now living inthe cities, yet they still have the access to better data and information;

2) the Clan knows its own members better, even if some members are no longer living close to eachother; there still exists the better access;

3) the Clan has now the communication facilities, thanks to the cellular phones; transportation is notalso a problem when a clan unites;

4) the Clan, being an aggrupation of families, do not lack the experience of emergencies. So what theyonly need to do is contribute and share such info to all members. Also, a clan can share its experienceand advice to other clans.

If and when the clan awakens and acts, meaning: some leaders stand as leaders, then, we can dependless on politicians and not worry too much nor blame them if they cannot or do not reach out enough or when we hear that only their fellow party members benefitted the donations.

This is all a matter of love, e.g, who you love more.

Love takes care. And so, let those who have the most love do it. If the clan has the greater love for itsown, then, let them first do it, and the mayors and the Red Cross and the rest will only support, not takecharge.

Let there be in each clan, a leader or trustworthy coordinator to take charge and coordinate with eachhead (father) of its families. Let us not destroy the ancient family system God had installed in allsocieties, and let not democracy’s loveless system suppress or replace it. There is less love indemocracy. There is however greater greed.



Decades, even centuries of evidence are before us. Politicians have never enriched a family other thantheirs! They have only used other families as their milking cows, Thus, the masses composed of countless of families have suffered in poverty and helplessness.

LOVE FOR THE CLAN MUST BE REBORN. AND WITH IT, LOVE FOR OTHER CLANS MUST ALSOBE REKINDLED.

Long time ago, this was the case. The clan loved its own members. And each clan loved the other clans. So, there was no conflict between clans, but a happy co existence and exchange of whatever goods they had.

The problem came w hen foreigners eyed the rich soil and minerals of the clans’ lands.

What did these foreigners do?

They brought in: 1) liquor, 2) cigarettes, 3) opium, 4) guns and 5) sowed the germ of intrigues and vices.

With these tools, they were able to removed peace and cause clan wars or tribal conflicts. And so wehave now hatred by one clan against the others. This was so especially when murder or rape wasstarted.

Another tool that the foreigners succeeded to bring to us is religion to make the foreigners look good or look as gods to us and for them to more easily control us. In their religion, they taught humility andobedience… to them… not necessarily to the Great Father and Spirit, although they made it appear that when you obey them and their god, you are obeying the true God.

Not true.

For we are now in the situation when we are beginning to see that living their religion, believing their teachings have led us to destroy the Creation of the True Father, namely: His forests, His springs, Hisrivers, His lands and soils, His seas, His airs… to the effect that we, His children, suffer diseasescaused by a polluted or abused environment!

We had been hoodwinked by these foreigners, or better to call them aliens, who took the riches and fatsof the land, leaving us impoverished and weakened to the bones.

For in reality, have these aliens made us healthy, with long life, and wealthy?

If they had, then, they are the benevolent aliens.

But if not, then, they are the bad guys.

Therefore, as diseases and poverty and calamities and deaths increase in intensity, I am of the opinionthat:

1) Satan is on the reign

2) the leaders in government and business et al are doing his will;

3) they are composed of 13 original families at the top, only 2,000 members;

4) they are organized and called Illuminati;

5) they are the implementers of Satan’s systems and agendas.



6) through their chemical system, they had made the land and soil, as well as air and watersvery poor and even poisonous, thus

7) causing diseases and deaths and bankruptcies in a global scale never heard of before andnever equaled in history.

8) while God’s system is a system of abundance (not to be mistaken as extravagance), e.g., Hisabundant rivers versus metered tap water operated by the municipal governments; His free freshabundant air 80% of which is supplied by the planktons and 40% by the trees, instead of breathingoxygen-less and benzene-rich air in the cities or of being hooked to an oxygen hose in the hospitalwhich has a meter and a cost!

The Third Horseman of the Apocalypse is a pale horse master of metering:

Rev 6:5

[niv] When the Lamb opened the third seal, I heard the third living creaturesay, "Come!" I looked, and there before me was a black horse! Its rider

was holding a pair of scales in his hand.[kjv] And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third beast say,Come and see. And I beheld, and lo a black horse; and he that sat on himhad a pair of balances in his hand.

Rev 6:6

[niv] Then I heard what sounded like a voice among the four livingcreatures, saying, "A quart of wheat for a day's wages, and three quarts of barley for a day's wages, and do not damage the oil and the wine!"[kjv] And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and see thouhurt not the oil and the wine.

This group of global elite calling themselves the Illuminati has been Satan’s fellow inventors of the system of RAW CAPITALISM which is based in greed, lust and greed, as opposed toENLIGHTENED CAPITALISM which is based in divine all-encompassing love.

Raw Capitalism made use of measurements, or meters (e.g., water meters, electricity meter,gasoline meters, daily wage system) to enrich the few who are in control and impoverished the majorityand use it as their milking cows.

In this meter system called raw capitalism, gone is the abundant (not extravagant) waters fromthe springs and rivers. Gone is the rice harvest where both old and new harvests meet. Gone is the daywhen there was true abundance and is replaced by a paradox of meter system extravagance.

Think about that my brethren.

And think of the 4 th Horseman of the Apocalypse which symbolizes the results of the 3 rd horseman:

Rev 6:7 [niv] When the Lamb opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourthliving creature say, "Come!"



[kjv] And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of thefourth beast say, Come and see.

Rev 6:8

[niv] I looked, and there before me was a pale horse! Its rider was namedDeath , and Hades [Graves] was following close behind him. They weregiven power over a fourth of the earth to kill by sword , famine andplague [disease], and by the wild beasts [including microscopic ones suchas germs and viruses] of the earth.[kjv] And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on himwas Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto themover the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, andwith death, and with the beasts of the earth.

Are we not full of death, graves, sword (wars), famine (hunger) and plagues (diseases)?

You judge for yourself.



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