Estancia oil spill blues: bwisit nga Frank Drilon!
No wonder, the clean up of the oil spill in Estancia, Iloilo drags on because the key players turn out to be kiths, kins, look-alike, reincarnation and what-not, of Janet Lim Napoles, mastermind and primadonna of the P14-B pork barrel scam that has sent millions of enraged Pinoys raising their hackles. Estancia, erstwhile Alaska of the Philippines, is now a land of abomination and desolation. First, it has a set of morally bankrupt local officials who sold off their public market and public plaza to a heartless business conglormerate Gaisano which is notorious for overworking its workers and paying them starvation wages. But that’s not the heart of our story here. I will deal with the pack of scoundrels led by Mayor Rene Cordero and vice mayor Butching Aclaro who betrayed their town for 30 pieces of silver later. The problem of Estancia, 120 km. north of Iloilo City, is that, it is now on its knees after supertyphoon Yolanda battered it November 8. It’s still down on its knees ...