Like it or not, there is a chain of command!
We are now in the second half of the month of March and it is the time when Straight from the Sky celebrates a milestone as we celebrate our 15th Year in SkyCable Television as the longest talk show outside of Metro Manila. While we will be observing this anniversary next week, however for this week, I decided to do a pre-anniversary celebration showing to our faithful televiewers our 10th anniversary show when my good friend, Capt. Joy Roa of Air Safari fame, flew with his plane to Cebu to be our special guest for our 10th anniversary together with the late Capt. Jessup Bahinting of AviaTours.
I have never replayed our 10th anniversary so I decided that it was time that we replayed this particular show because of its uniqueness… after all we took footages of Cebu literally straight from the sky on board the Cessna 172 of Capt. Joy Roa and Capt. Jessup Bahinting, which by the way Capt. Joy Roa was also making his Cebu episode for his hit show on Air Safari. So please watch this replay of our 10th anniversary on SkyCable’s channel 61 at 8:00PM with replays on Wednesday and Saturday. We also have replays on MyTV channel 30 at 9:00PM with replays on Wednesday and Friday at 7:00AM and 9:00PM
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This is a time when many big breaking news are elbowing for front-page exposure. Of course the biggest news of last week was the release of the Board of Inquiry reports, which validates many of the questions that we have been asking since the Jan. 25th Mamasapano debacle.
As everyone already knows, the BOI report was damaging to Pres. Benigno Aquino III when it stated, “The participation of the suspended CPNP in Oplan Exodus was carried out with the knowledge of the President. Records revealed instances when the suspended CPNP met with the President and Napeñas to discuss Oplan Exodus on January 25, 2015.” So clearly the President used the suspended PNP Director General when he shouldn’t have done so as he was no longer in power. Yet not even an apology?
Worse for Pres. Aquino was the official statement in the BOI which stated, “The Chain of Command in the PNP was violated. The President, the suspended CPNP Purisima and the former Director SAF Napeñas kept the information to themselves and deliberately failed to inform the OIC PNP and the DILG. The Chain of Command should be observed in running mission operations.” Now what I would like to know is what is the opinion of Department of Justice Sec. Leila de Lima who proposed the idea that there was no “chain of command” in the PNP as it is a civilian organization.
Again I’d like to point out that the investigation done by the DOJ, which is not yet finished, might end up being moot and academic for the simple reason that Sec. De Lima still insists that there was no chain of command that was broken, when the truth is there is a chain of command even in private business organizations. This is the problem with the loyal yellow subjects of Pres. Aquino. Sec. De Lima thinks that Filipinos are so stupid they would believe her yarn.
Sec. De Lima went to the Moro Islamic Liberation Front lair in Maguindanao to promise Justice to the 18 MILF fighters who were killed in the Mamasapano clash with the SAF troopers to show that she was doing an impartial investigation, which was not only for the 44 SAF troopers who were killed but also the MILF fighters. But instead the MILF report was not given to her but to Malaysia. Why Malaysia? Does the MILF look up to Malaysia as its patron? It certainly looks like that!
With the BOI report out in the open, if the DOJ findings would contradict the BOI report, then this nation is in deep trouble. Today is the 50th day since the Mamasapano massacre and at least the BOI report has contradicted many stories emanating from the Palace sycophants in Malacañang.
But Sec. De Lima is still in a fighting mood when she insisted last Saturday that the BOI Mamasapano Report “Started on the wrong premise in so far as the role of the President as Commander-in-Chief of the PNP.” She still insists that PNoy was not the commander-in-chief of the PNP but the chief executive. Call it whatever name you wish to call it but, whether she likes it or not, for us it’s semantics!
What is happening in this country is uncannily similar to what happened during the Agrava Commission which was created to find out who killed PNoy’s father, the late Sen. Benigno “Ninoy” Aquino, Jr. The Agrava commission pointed to the Avsecom men as the perpetrators of that crime but failed to identify the mastermind, which many people believe to be loyal followers of Pres. Ferdinand E. Marcos. What an irony of ironies that we have turned the tables on Pres. Aquino who ordered Oplan Exodus to commence but when the 44 SAF troopers were killed, we are now witnesses to the greatest cover-up done in this sick nation.
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