This is the second time that a Canadian kidnap victim was beheaded by the Abu Sayyaf group and yet President Aquino (Pnoy) remains invisible and silent. The first time was the same as Pnoy was busy campaigning for his bet Mar Roxas during the election campaign period.
Senator Juan Ponce Enrile once famously described Aquino as a “three-day president,” a thoroughly unflattering nickname referring to the incumbent’s distressing predilection of disappearing for that long whenever a crisis situation develops. In the case of the beheading of Canadian John Ridsdel, Aquino was determined to max out all three days Enrile had allotted to him.
It took Trudeau only hours to condemn the killing of Ridsdel, after the former mining executive was killed in cold blood Monday night because his family and his government were unable to raise the P300 million in ransom demanded by the Abu Sayyaf Group.
The people calling for Aquino to focus on his job in the remaining days of his administration were speaking in the context of the so-called Kidapawan Massacre, of which the administration basically washed its hands after allowing a farmers’ protest to degenerate into a violent and fatal police dispersal operation after just four days. So that took more than three days—maybe Aquino was trying to disprove Enrile’s theory.
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