After growling and snarling like a fierce and angry tiger, super mayor Arcadio Gorriceta has rapidly transformed into a meek kitten with a gentle meow when he struck a peace deal with TESDA secretary general Augusto Boboy Syjuco just recently.
This was confirmed by Syjuco publicist Herbert Vego in his column, Powwow, in the Daily Guardian newspaper.
The way Vego put it, Gorriceta backtracked from his previous hardline stance against the Syjuco couple and licked their asses just so he could get his hands on the P308 million Paglaum rehabilitation fund intended for damaged infrastructure as a result of Typhoon Frank last year.
It was only five months ago when Gorriceta viciously attacked the Syjuco couple for supposedly taking away from him a P10-million rehabilitation fund to repair the damaged Tigum-Pagsangaan-Cabugao Norte provincial road in Pavia. Gorriceta had wanted to handle the implementation, and he was angry when the DPWH started to implement the project, as the funds came from the agency’s rehabilitation fund. He even coined the term, “dakal-dakal” road, to ridicule the Syjucos’s proposed rehabilitation of the road only with sand and gravel.
Gorriceta, in a manner of speaking, was all thunder and lightning in denouncing the Syjucos. He painted the couple as the devil incarnate on this earth.
But the situation has changed, according to Vego. As he put it, Gorriceta has learned to mind his own business. No longer is Gorriceta calling the Syjucos unprintable words and ugly names. He has zippered his mouth shut. He has swallowed his pride and supplicated before the Syjucos. Why so? Because Gorriceta will do anything to get a piece of the Paglaum rehabilitation funds. He wants to make peace with the Syjucos so he doesn’t end up empty handed.
In the eyes of most people, this would be like swallowing his own bile. This would show Gorriceta to be a truly unprincipled man who will do anything and everything for his personal gain.
No wonder a lot of people in Iloilo who know the real character of Cadio Gorriceta only display contempt and disgust for him.
