Mah Cribs at Maguindanao
It was like Mindanews guys (thanks btw to Madam Ellen Tordesillas for posting this in her blog), did something like a MTV cribs episode, I cant help but scratch my head seeing these pictures of exquisite wealth amidst the suffering of the second poorest province in the country.
So lemme do a mala-hiphop DJ Amfa2juan, touring you in mah crib in Maguindanao (parang MTV cribs lang ito) heheh. 
Just take a look at these pictures:
Cant you see mah jacuzzi?? Seems like all the water from Maguindanao can flow there and wash my facking poo-poo. But how about my constituents? Do they have their own palikuran, to say, at least a portalet?
Yeah baby, this is the front of my provincial capitol. Looks shiny and clean isnt it? I wonder if my constituents have a decent porch or at least, de-marmol man ang bahay nila? I wonder if they still live in their ramshackles ?
And this is my spic and span office. I made my Yaya punas it all over again with tons of pledge. I want it squeaky clean whenever I sit in it or do my fancy stuff there. See? I can even breakdance in da shiny floor! Of course, if mah bling bling is shiny, so does my office. Ternong hiphop lang yan pare!
Da conference room and the reception room. Yah know, its where I receive mah gun-totting and trigger happy chuchus and peeps! I wonder if mah constituents did have a decent sala of their own too??
And yeah, mah bedroom. Its adjacent to mah office. Looks gorgeous isnt it? Of course, it has to be, yah know! But how about my constituents? It’s either they sleep in the cold semento (if luckily their haus is sementado) or in the papag with matching banig. I sleep in a soft cushion while mah constituents sleep in the matigas na papag and magazpang na banig.
So wanna see more of mah crib in Maguindanao? Go visit me there. Dont forget to wear a kevlar vest though. Some of my crackhead homies are trigger happy. Baka gawin na lang kayong pato dun.
DJ Amfa2juan signing out! Chill homies!
O by the way, here’s another picture from Madam Ellen Tordesillas about a money bag found there?!?!?!
Jeez. WTF!!!!
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Update:
Beside the dining room, separated by a wall, one finds the kitchen and fronting it, a space that has become, for the moment, a storeroom for stackable plastic chairs and tables.
Outside the door from the “storeroom,” one finds an escape route: a stairway to the left which leads to a driveway three floors down, on the side where the provincial gym is. If you don’t want to go down that route, there’s another door to the right outside the “storeroom” that leads to another bedroom that opens to the Office of the Provincial Administrator which is also linked to the third and last office on the third floor: the Office of the Provincial Budget.
Update:
The Provincial Governor’s Office appears well-preserved. The maroon leather sofa, the sofa behind it upholstered in fabric and the Cheers recliner sofa appear new. The conference appears unused and the beds’ upholstery in the adjacent room and in the room adjacent to the Administrator’s are still wrapped in plastic.
Update: (These updates were taken from Mindanews)
Maguindanao Governor Datu Andal Ampatuan, Sr. is rarely seen in this office, preferring the provincial government’s “satellite office” or “sub-office” within the compound where his mansion is. From his mansion to the provincial capitol is only about 400 meters.
The provincial capitol used to be in Sultan Kudarat town in Maguindano, along the Davao-Cotabato highway but citing security reasons and an alleged ambush, Ampatuan Sr., elected governor in 2001 and reelected in 2004 and 2007, opted to have the capitol moved to Shariff Aguak.
The new capitol was opened shortly before the May 2007 elections. Then, the provincial Commission on Elections office was still on the ground floor. Maguindanao provincial administrator Norie Unas was seen more often in the capitol, the governor going there only during special functions or when receiving dignitaries.
But the capitol was inaugurated formally only on March 27 this year when Ampatuan Sr., had resigned as governor and his vice governor son, Sajid, was appointed acting governor (the patriarch resigned, claiming he had no mandate from constituents of Shariff Kabunsuan, the province that the Supreme Court said was created in violation of the Constitution and which should be returned to Maguindanao; another view on the resignation is that doing so would allow the patriarch to run for governor of the reconstituted Maguindanao since he did not complete his third term).
With 22 Maguindanao towns and 11 Shariff Kabunsuan towns, the total number of towns of what earlier this year they referred to as New Maguindanao is 33 plus three other new towns created – for a total of 36.
President Arroyo personally came to inaugurate the P218-M provincial capitol, P25 million of which came from the President’s Social Fund on March 27.
The provincial capitol compound used to be heavily guarded by police and the governor’s armed Civilian Volunteers’ Organizaiton.
In the elections of 2007, some journalists were barred entry into the capitol where the elections office is. (Carolyn O. Arguillas/MindaNews)
When Mindanews went to the provincial capitaol thesy saw this moneybag. Phot taken by Froilan Gallardo of Mindanews:
pucha! MONEY BAG?! PWEDENG MAG-MURA SA BLOG NAMEN?! GRRRR!!!!
I posted the photo, bakit hindi lumabas? Anyway it’s in my blog.
Post ko na lang po madam ellen dun sa post. I got the URL naman from your blog.
[...] ang mga palasyo nang mga [insert bastos word here] to? At ilan ang komisyon at nadekwat nila sa magarbong capitol na to? This is dreamland. Napapaligiran nang mga taong walang trabaho at walang makain. Poverty at [...]
Huy Silver, nanonuod ako niyang MTV Cribs.
Whoa, look at this place, kay ganda! At may Jacuzzi pa!? Teka, lahat ba ng Kapitolyo required lagyan ng Jacuzzi. *wink*
ang sarap buhay pala sa maguindanao. marmol ang kapitolyo, may sleeping quarters at may jacuzzi pa. asan kaya ang spa? hmmm
GRRRRRR. Bitayin silang lahat!
backhoe them. much better.