A GOOD NEWS
Just a little more details and thoughts regarding the Bad News.
If there is truth in the articles, it is the fact that indeed, the good mayor has been sentenced to a year in prison for, take note, UNAUTHORIZED TRANSFER OF CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS FROM ONE FOOTBRIDGE PROJECT (Pingkian) TO ANOTHER FOOTBRIDGE PROJECT (Acnip), DEFINITELY NOT graft and corruption as the news article referred to in the previous entry claimed. They of course filed an appeal and so the sentence was lowered to a year of probation. It is absolutely not a case of graft and corruption because no penny was taken.
Mayor Dupiano will nonetheless finish his term (therefore he is not an EX-MAYOR, halerrrrr!). I do not pretend to understand much of the law but I know that probation is a lighter sentence, much much lighter in fact, where one is free but must walk on a line and when one made good during the probationary period, then the sentence is through. Tell me, no judge in his right mind would lessen a sentence to probation if it is proven beyond reasonable doubt that the defendant intentionally chose to defy the law, right? Moreover, the claim that nobody testified as to the completion of the Acnip Hanging bridge is not conclusive of anything. I will talk about this later in a following entry. But for all his bother, I congratulate the perpetrator of all these cases filed against the mayor. At last he has "half-succeeded." He has been trying for 8 years now to put the good man down but oh! well, the race is almost over and he has not even left the starting line because he wasted his time tying the shoelaces of other racers in hope that they would trip.
To whom it may concern: to quote your favorite expression, TRABAHO LANG, WALANG PERSONALAN!
If there is truth in the articles, it is the fact that indeed, the good mayor has been sentenced to a year in prison for, take note, UNAUTHORIZED TRANSFER OF CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS FROM ONE FOOTBRIDGE PROJECT (Pingkian) TO ANOTHER FOOTBRIDGE PROJECT (Acnip), DEFINITELY NOT graft and corruption as the news article referred to in the previous entry claimed. They of course filed an appeal and so the sentence was lowered to a year of probation. It is absolutely not a case of graft and corruption because no penny was taken.
Mayor Dupiano will nonetheless finish his term (therefore he is not an EX-MAYOR, halerrrrr!). I do not pretend to understand much of the law but I know that probation is a lighter sentence, much much lighter in fact, where one is free but must walk on a line and when one made good during the probationary period, then the sentence is through. Tell me, no judge in his right mind would lessen a sentence to probation if it is proven beyond reasonable doubt that the defendant intentionally chose to defy the law, right? Moreover, the claim that nobody testified as to the completion of the Acnip Hanging bridge is not conclusive of anything. I will talk about this later in a following entry. But for all his bother, I congratulate the perpetrator of all these cases filed against the mayor. At last he has "half-succeeded." He has been trying for 8 years now to put the good man down but oh! well, the race is almost over and he has not even left the starting line because he wasted his time tying the shoelaces of other racers in hope that they would trip.
To whom it may concern: to quote your favorite expression, TRABAHO LANG, WALANG PERSONALAN!
Comments
It is good news indeed to know that he will be on probation and need not spend time in jail. By the way, I'm glad you brought this post back. I was a worried that you were threatened or something when you blogged about the matter.
yes,'someone' was threatened & 'someone' got scared but decided it's worth it so they're here again...Thanks for worrying:) :)