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Debt Threats
By Fred C. Amora
Published on September 3, 2006 - Bohol Standard

Am really sorry for the mess-up last Sunday resulting to the deletion of the jump (continuation) of my column about the Fourth Angel.

Well anyway, it could be a blessing in disguise for in that missing part I had “exposed” the identity of the guy. He was literally saved by the bell.

But ironically, the blessing turned out, not for him but for me. He text after reading my incomplete column saying he was sure I was referring to him when in the first portion I stated “Pendejo ning atong amigo”.

Meaning he knows who he is. Smart jod!

His text said “suerte ka kay wa matiwas imong colum kay kon migawas pa ako ngalan natiwas na sad unta ka.”

That was a threat! The guy was indeed very angry and he meant what he said, “matiwas” as in “I’m finished!”

I really had sleepless night the past week. I angered a friend and he is threatening me.

When I told another friend about my threat, before I could finish my story he seriously admonished me “do peligro jod tinuod kay naay daghan Vigilantes ug mga hired killer karon.”

So I had to keep my mouth shut. I did not care to explain further.

What this other friend failed to understand was the threat is actually not about death or being assassinated. My biggest fear actually is: this Pendejo friend owns a lending firm. He sent me a Demand Letter the other day saying “Dili na ta amigo. Maningil nako sa imong utang nga dugay na kaayo.”

Wow “debt threat” diay!

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Talking about threats, I was told I should indeed be careful these days.

Somebody told me Police Provincial Director Arturo Evangelista was “galit na galit sa akin” because of my banner stories in the newspaper about his impending relief.

I did receive a very threatening text from him!

If it was meant to scare me, he was wrong. He also blundered in using a cell number that was identified in my phonebook.

Maybe PD Evangelista forgot he gave me that “confidential number” of his.

What worries me, however, is the unfolding event that he might indeed be transferred outside Bohol.

If there is a hearing on his merits and performance, I would volunteer to be his counsel, pro bono. I will take the cudgels of defending this gentleman.

PD Evangelista is just about ten months in office and he isn’t Superman to be able to round off the bad guys in just a flip of his cape.

Nobody seems to have noticed that in his first six months (going to the 1st Quarter 2006) Evangelista made a remarkable performance of having the highest crime solution rate in the whole Central Visayas for that period.

Out of 898 cases, his command solved 833 of them as recorded in data from Regional Intelligence and Investigation Division (RIID-7).

It is unprecedented for someone very new since this is the first assignment for Evangelista as provincial commander being from the PNP Aviation Security Group before.

“Nasuko lang tingali ang mga mayor kay gi-kuwestiyon ang pag gamit nila sa intelligence fund.”

I think Evangelista has raised a question never asked before.

If he was probably given the support, he could have performed far well than what he had accomplished in that sterling 1st Quarter 2006 high crime solution rate.

Why don’t the mayors tell instead and make known to the public how they utilized these huge intelligence funds that are not even subjected to government auditing?

The people deserve to know for intel-funds are from people’s taxes, therefore public funds.

If mayors treat these intel-funds as “pocket monies”, then transferring Evangelista won’t make any difference!

Lesson for Today: Recite the Our Father everyday. “… Thy Will be done here on Earth as it is in Heaven.”

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