PRESIDENT Bongbong Marcos shouldn’t be taken for a ride [again] by the Philippine National Police top leaders whose acts have lately been taken as an exact affront to the PNP’s official motto — to serve and protect.
For one, the PNP General Hospital was established exclusively for active and retired police officers and their immediate family members. Allowing Senator Rodante Marcoleta to stay at the PNP General Hospital in itself is a red flag.
Prior to his arrest, Marcoleta was one of the busiest active members of the senate. He walked relentlessly at the Senate — joined senate hearings, addressed media queries and pulled antics during conversation with people visiting his office.
He even joined the INC rally along EDSA and spoke louder than anybody else on the stage.
Following his arrest, the vibrant Marcoleta instantaneously transformed into a weakling — theatrically perhaps. While at the PNP General Hospital, where he has reportedly been diagnosed with pneumonia (a contagious illness), he was allowed to receive visitors like Vice President Sara Duterte and a minion whom I would rather call Robot Patilla.
Skeptical on the health condition of Marcoleta under the care of the PNP General Hospital, the Sandiganbayan ordered the PNP to explain the “lapse on the part” of the PNP Health Service in Camp Crame and to have the senator undergo an otherwise independent medical assessment at the Philippine General Hospital.
Shouldn’t the President finally hit the roof, especially, after the apparently deliberate negligence of the PNP to prevent the huge INC rally which paralyzed traffic on EDSA, and the escape of Senator Bato dela Rosa from right under its nose.
Robot Patilla meanwhile is portraying himself as an experienced media personality who has bestowed upon himself the right to tell media professionals on proper news reporting while covering the impeachment trial.
He claimed expertise in evidence-gathering – something that the reporters, according to him, should learn.
To be perfectly candid, the entertainment media where he came from is way far from the news media that he wanted to coach. His supposed reputation in the entertainment industry doesn’t sit well in a trade that embarks on truth and nothing but the truth.
No fanfare, no drama, no scripts, no stunt doubles, and blah-blah-blah!
