IF you want beef or pork, better buy it outside the Kingdom by the Lunok. Neighbsors have safe meat and Lunok has none of that.

Ogtong, San Miguel and Leganes, for example, have modern abattoirs. Each processes the average of 40 animals daily, butchered on platforms and hung on steel bars after being cleanst while awaiting transport to the markets. These facilities are sanitary; butchers enjoy free flowing waters and the wastes are directly deposited in ponds.

The Kingdom by the Lunok under the watch of Datu Pandit, in contrast, operates on a decrepit slaughterhouse that has no tap water and waste disposal system. Its flaking asbestos roof exposes workers and neighbors to cancer. Meat contaminated with asbestos is dangerous to health.

Try visiting the kingdom’s slaughterhouse and you will doubt buying beef or pork coming from it the next time around. The facility, aside from absence of tap water, has no platform to put the animal after butchering and cleaning. It has no steel bar to hang the carcasses. Workers butcher the animals on the floor and in their rush, mix up the meat and blood with dung and mud.

Eight years passed but Datu Pandit did nothing to address that. He will be stepping down in 2010 leaving the Kingdom by the Lunok wondering aimlessly but opiated by his verbiages like “Uswag Lunok!”

Eight years into office, Datu Pandit’s most prominent achievement is flooding the kingdom with billboards, streamers, signs bearing his name and smiling face. To him governance involves mere marketing skills, public service is just advertising. If you mastered that, the rest fall into place.

But he forgets that advertisement works only when grounded in reality. In the case of Datu Pandit, his propaganda flies away from facts, redounding to insulting the intelligence of his constituents. Visit the slaughterhouse once and you can’t help but dismiss the “New Trio los Bobos” as clowns for making the Kingdom by the Lunok into one great billboard for graffiti.

Take the case of the horrible state of traffic in the kingdom. The New Trio Los Bobos comprising Datu Pandit, Kitkit and Tukmol failed to solve that. They designed traffic laws that turn the kingdom’s streets as chinatown, as garages for the rich and famous who are chinky eyed, snarling traffick worse.

Instead of making public transport convenient, they’d rather seize that as opportunity to squeeze profits from commuters and PUJ drivers that thereby makes travel costlier and slower.

Go anywhere and you will see all sorts of traffic sign: no parking, loading/unloading, no left turn, no right turn, no u-turn, etc. each bearing the name of Datu Pandit.

When Bagyo Prank submerged the Kingdom by the Lunok, Datu Pandit seized that into another publicity opportunity by hanging posters, streamers, stickers, and what-have-you saying: “Bangon Lunok, Masarangan Ta Ini.” Hundreds died and disappeared from the torrents. Tens of millions of properties were lost and you still have Datu Pandit doing nothing but humoring us as if he came from a party.

The New Trio Los Bobos: Datu Pandit, Kitkit and Tukmol miserably failed in preparing the kingdom for floods and doing decisive measures for post-disaster management.

Kitkit, a trying-hard Steven Segal look alike, has to steal to support his appetite for women, casuals included. His wife returned to Taiwan for good taking with her their kids. Kitkit is so inebriated with power and uses that to take liberty with casuals in the kingdom that he forgets his obligation to his family.

Datu Pandit’s grinning face urging Lunoknons to “bangon (kay) masarangan ta ini” is replicated only by similar graffiti that he littered on roadsides, skywalks, billboards, etc. saying “Uswag Lunok!”, “Trabaho sa Masa Kauswagan sang Banwa” and “Lunok the New Big Thing”.

These are mere verbiages, empty words that, at best, reflects Datu Pandit’s kind of governance, or to be more exact, misgovernance…

Even the humanitarian project of establishing relocation sites for the poor and landless has become a racket under the watch of Datu Pandit, as lucrative as his Perimeter Boundary Ordinance.

He is ending his term by 2010 and will surely leave the Kingdom by the Lunok in disarray. But as we have no guarantee that crooks will also go away, we just hope and pray that when he steps down, he will bring Kitkit and Tukmol with him!

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