‘Giving way in favor of Vice President Leni Robredo will provide Pacquiao another unforgettable legacy.’
SEN. Manny Paquiao is seriously considering quitting the presidential race. He has reportedly confided this matter with close friends and advisers. His Christian piety could make him walk away and bravely face possible public ridicule and embarrassment, unlike Sen. Ping Lacson whose pride may be larger than a looming electoral defeat.
Pacquiao doesn’t seem bothered by the fact that he threw away hundreds of millions of pesos during the campaign, only to back out. The very generous former eight-time world boxing champ is the only presidential aspirant who has been open with his faith. and sincerely believes that God will bring him the real message.
With about a month to go before the elections, he now doubts if his numbers would still improve. He knows the nation is faced with imminent evil embodied by some leading candidates as parlayed through money politics and through a covert anti-nationalist agenda. Giving way in favor of Vice President Leni Robredo will provide Pacquiao another unforgettable legacy.
Lacson must have realized by now that Robredo’s very active role during the COVID pandemic despite her office’s meager resources, along with her tireless efforts to bring various forms of abundant assistance, relief supplies and real hope to calamity victims has yielded the growing and swirling mobilization of the people’s support. Lacson would release funds for victims of COVID-19 and calamity victims and allow his assistants and staff to represent him during those very difficult and occasionally perilous times but not Robredo, who would make herself constantly visible in just about any of her humanitarian projects and countless trips to calamity areas.
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The alumni of the Tau Gamma Phil Fraternity in Laguna should surrender to the police the hazing suspects involved in the fatal hazing of a neophyte in Kalayaan town, Laguna. Grade 12 student Reymart Rabutazo suffered heinous injuries such brutal wounds in the head, teeth bashed out and large body burns. Senate Majority Floor leader Migz Zubiri, who authored the reinforced Anti-Hazing Law of 2018, has condemned the crime. He said on the Senate floor that “it is infuriating that fraternities still resort to these barbaric and brutal acts. This is not about brotherhood, but about torture.”
The Tau Gamma Phi has been notorious for a long and vicious series of hazing deaths, the last one in Negros Oriental last September where a 21-year-old student died of major internal injuries after undergoing initiation.
