So here’s the picture, everybody’s reacting to some of my tweets quoting some of our councilors during their Sangguniang Bayan’s regular session. As of what I am hearing from our common friends, they say that what I am doing is “paninira sa kapwa”, which includes tweets on which I quoted a councilor mentioning “styrophone” on his privilege speech.
It has been somehow a habit to watch the Sangguniang Bayan sessions every Wednesday primarily to check on how our councilors had been doing their job and sometimes, to lobby some issues that they had been so deaf that they we’re not able to hear it from the different sectors of the society. To maximize technology and my friend’s BBM, I log on to twitter every time we watch the SB session. I post updates as to how things are going around the session so that even the ordinary people who have lost interest in participating in the government and has decided to tweet and use facebook all day long, would have had been informed of how the people they elected has been functioning.
Who among you knows that a resolution has already been passed authorizing our Municipal Mayor to enter in to a loan agreement with land bank for the purpose of constructing a new public market?
Who among you knows that the tents we see in front of the public market are temporary and was loaned for Php7.5 Million?
Who among you knows that it has already been broadcast in print adds and radios that our municipality is already implementing an anti-plastic campaign, though according to the committee on environment, it is still under further study?
I too would have not known that if I did not spent time, energy and resources to be able to watch a session.
According to the LGC, sessions are supposed to be publicized and approved resolutions and ordinances must be available to the eyes of the public. In fact, there are areas in the Philippines where Sangguniang Bayan sessions are aired live on TV. Now I’m starting to get bothered why on earth does these councilors are making a so-big-deal when they are quoted during their ‘public sessions’.
My dear councilors, my point here is that, regardless of how you deliver, whether it be on the right grammar or not, the people has to know the things you’ve been talking about. The thing is that, because the people has to know, they are as well hoping that you devote extra time to review and analyze things first before standing before them in the podium. We are as much as eager to hear from you the things that you had been doing since in all possible ways, it affect us.
I myself do not have a perfect grammar, but please, when you’re not so sure of what you’re going to say, speak in the language you are comfortable with. The aim here is to let the people understand the things you’d been talking about and not to impress us with the English language.
Again, my sincerest apologies if my tweets, quoting what you’ve said had somehow caused some negative impact to your so-protected and beloved names. I just realized that really, most of the time, the truth hurts.
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