Judging things we don’t completely understand – a common human mistake.
I see Electric Cooperatives (ECs) like soldiers. They are those being deployed in the battlefield in the command of their higher ups. And as one of the many captains of these soldiers, I have seen how many times we fought for the better causes of those who relied upon us – the Member-Consumer-Owners (MCOs). Even though, many times as well did it happen when we were sent in the battlefield without the right and needed ammunitions in combatting deprivation of rural electrification.
The real battle of rural electrification cannot be seen in an Office full of working papers prepared in the way we dictate it and waiting for them to be signed and dispatched for the soldiers to follow an Order. Much more that it could not be grasped nor perceived in highfalutin words we beautifully utter when we stand to appear caring to the ECs in the ever critiquing faces of the media, politicians and those even higher to us, yet sounded deviously hypocrites to those who knows the real meaning of our words and knows how to read between those lines. The real battle could only be realized in the actual and hands on implementation of rural electrification – that is the path walked through by the ECs were they meet the real challenging enemies and witness how MCOs are hand-tied like prisoners with no choice but to await to be freed from the repeating sounds of darkness and hopelessness. It is a gross irony though, that we, the soldiers of light, while risking our lives in saving the prisoners and giving them the taste of freedom, were fired at our backs and worst is when you realize who are ingenuously and straightforwardly firing at you.
If ECs will not stand firm and fight back, the things our forefathers have fought for in giving us the freedom through these basic yet very founding principles of rural electrification emphasized and fought for by the ECs such as – 1) to protect and preserve the gains of Rural Electrification, 2) Sustain the existence of ECs and 3) protect the rights of the MCOs – will all come into nothing. “ECs then will just die a natural death”.
The recollection and the denial we have before about our enemies now is like a fairytale – to good to be true. Yes, it is painful to think that the supposed to be father we thought would do everything and anything just to protect his children, is desolately the one who denies and curses them. A father who in an ideal yet very common sense, is a cultivator, motivator and an inspiration to his children and none of us are no brainers to smile while a father tries to throw his children to the wide open and watering mouths of the crocodiles in the ocean because of a false and baseless judgment and later on feast on their eventual deaths while portraying remorse? A father exists because his children needs his loving care and protection, but surprisingly in reality, is the main perpetrator of obvious crimes yet a judgmental demigod himself – again, how sad understatement is that.
I do not sit witnessing all of these melodramas before my own very eyes. I stand to show my soldiers that ECs and MCOs are worth fighting for. I stand to say that SOCOTECO-I will fight back in whatever cost it will take just to give our MCOs the sweetest freedom they have dreamed of and will ever taste in the entirety of their lives – freedom from darkness and hopelessness. I stand to say that we will give our next generations a great future, the one that will allow them to grow more and help build and develop this nation through rural electrification.
Mabuhay ang Electric Cooperatives! Mabuhay ang MCOs!