Pre-Semester Frontier Post 28
NEA Appointing a Project Supervisor is just a Face-saving Move
Analyze the situation well. NEA abuses its power to supervise and appoints a BENECO GM. They totally underestimated the enormous public opinion backlash. So now NEA wants to redeem itself by pretending to suspend all conflicting parties, including the GM they appointed, in lieu of whom they will appoint a “Project Supervisor.”
That move in itself is a tacit admission of error. But it makes their error worse. A project supervisor is nowhere contemplated in the law. Even if you grant the best intentions on the part of NEA, you only place a cooperative under receivership–which is really what appointing a project supervisor amounts to–if it has become insolvent. But there is a lengthy process of determining the existence of insolvency, and its limited purpose is to protect any state equity in the cooperative’s capital and assets.
A company doesn’t cease to be private even if it becomes insolvent. It is not that difficult to realize the limit of one’s authority. Not even President Duterte can appoint a BENECO GM–if he could, he would have done so already. It’s not a matter of rank on the part of the appointer. It’s a matter of law.
When you are putting on a polo shirt, and you made a mistake of putting on the wrong button first, no matter how you try to correct it in the middle buttons, you will still run out of button holes at the end. It will still be askew. You have no choice but to undo the first wrong button.
About the Author
The author is a writer and lawyer based in Baguio City, Philippines. Former editor of the Gold Ore and Baguio City Digest, professor of journalism, political science and law at Baguio Colleges Foundation (BCF). He is a photographer and video documentarist. He has a YouTube channel called “Parables and Reason”
About Images: Some of the images used in the articles are from the posts in Atty. Joel Rodriguez Dizon’s Facebook account, and/or Facebook groups and pages he manages or/and part of.