Nani Braganza’s side-kick Panabang

If Alaminos City Mayor Nani Braganza doesn’t want his political stock to plummet to the abyss against the likes of Congressman Arthur Celeste and Board Member Danny Dizon come the May 14, 2010 local poll, he should upbraid his City Administrator Wilmer Panabang (a retired PNP officer) on the way he handles the media.

Couples of days ago I heard Panabang over Bombo Radyo arrogantly lecturing Bombo reporter Jasmine Joy Gabriel on the propriety of the latter in asking about copies of government documents.

In a tension-filled confrontation, he told the poor reporter – who fortunately tape-recorded the dishing – that she could not just barge in one’s kitchen and scrutinize things there.

What I heard was Gabriel was supposedly asking from a department head about the copy of the accounting list of the city’s concluded fiesta.