Asleep at the switch

Jacinto Ang, Nonilon Tagalicud, Gilsie Mangilit and Amerhassan Paudac are examples that the Department of Justice doesn’t choose its government prosecutors well.

Pasig City Assistant Prosecutor Tagalicud dismissed a homicide case against a policeman who ran amuck and killed a two-year-old girl on grounds of self defense.

The resolution was approved by his boss, Pasig City Prosecutor Ang.

How could the policeman, PO2 Reynante Cueto, assigned at the Police Security and Protection Group in Camp Crame, claim self defense when he didn’t have enemies?

Cueto ran to the scene where his brother, Jason, another cop, was killed in a shooting incident hours earlier.

Cueto went berserk when nobody would tell him who the killer was, and started shooting at nobody in

particular; one bullet hit two-year-old Anna Maris Abayon in the head.

Tagalicud said Cueto was just defending himself and his brother.

But how could Cueto be defending himself when his brother’s killer was already gone and his brother already dead?

In Parañaque City, Assistant Prosecutor Mangilit dismissed cases of robbery-extortion and grave coercion filed against a woman caught red-handed by agents of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) for allegedly receiving extortion money.

The, complainant Elkie Lumagui, a dentist, approached “Isumbong mo kay Tulfo” for help after Mary Jean Kamb threatened to expose her in public for her unpaid electric bills if she didn’t give her money.

Dr. Lumagui said she had settled her bills with Manila Electric Company months earlier.

CIDG agents, led by Senior Insp. Rommel Macatlang, set a trap for Kamb after “Isumbong” referred the dentist’s complaint to them.

Mangilit’s reason for dismissing the complaint— which was seconded by City Prosecutor Paudac—was that there was “no probable cause” for filing the case.

With the marked money as evidence presented to Mangilit, there was no possibility that Kamb blackmailed and coerced Lumagui?

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The leaking roof at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport Terminal I that makes passengers hold umbrellas over their heads is another proof that the Naia general manager, Jose Angel Honrado, is inefficient.

Damn inefficient, to use lingo at the Philippine Air Force where he was once a general.

It’s a good thing Honrado’s Air Force helicopter, which he flew as a junior officer, had no reported incidents of crashing.

Honrado’s inefficiency is tolerated because of his reported blood relations with President Noynoy.

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If Sen. Grace Poe is barred by the Constitution from running for President next year because she lacks the residency requirement of 10 years before the election, she can wait for the next presidential election.

Huwag siyang apurado at atat na atat (She should not be in a hurry and be an eager-beaver.

She’s too young to be President.

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The proposed team-up of Davao City Mayor Rody Duterte and Batangas governor and movie star Vilma Santos is formidable.

Santos can inject feminine charm and neutralize Duterte’s macho-style, heavy-handed type of leadership.