Cabling also target
of ouster move
A group of city councilors who engineered the recent leadership change in the Davao City Council were not only after former floor leader councilor Bonifacio Militar’s head.
Councilor Arnolfo Ricardo Cabling, chair of the committee on housing, rural and urban planning, was the first target of the coup that saw Militar being replaced by councilor Danilo Dayanghirang, according to Cabling himself.
I was told they are ousting me because I could not deliver the deliverables. I do not know what deliverables are. What I know is what I could deliver is only public service, said Cabling yesterday in a speech at the session wherein Militar fired a bombshell at councilor Conrado Baluran as the councilor from the Second District who wanted him to violate house rules to approved favored legislation.
The message that Cabling received was something that smacks of dirty money unrealized from corruption that could have been fleeced by his committee from housing developers.
How can I deliver when I have nothing to deliver? said Cabling, after the four-hour session that was eaten up by discussion stirred by Militar’s expose.
Sources at the city council said the housing body was the “most lucrative” council committee but Cabling apparently would have none of the anomalies that linked the committee in the past.
“Cabling is a straight guy. So there is no money,” earlier said Militar, who resigned before he can be ousted due to alleged anomalies of some councilors.
Sources said the plan to oust Cabling was secretly hatched up by the plotters during a legislative workshop in August last year in Manila. Cabling failed to attend the event being then in Australia for a convention on watershed protection.
The ouster move however did not prosper, forcing the plotters to instead remove Militar, who also chairs the committee on laws and ordinances.
Yesterday, Militar accused Baluran as among those behind the plot to remove him. Dayanghirang was picked by councilors to replace Militar a week after the floor leader turned in a resignation letter.
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