Ex-NBI Director reiterates Kuya’s warning “Bawal ang Pikon!”

(L-F) Ex-NBI Directors Velasco and Mison)

December 23, 2010

by Agent Searchlight

Editor: Longbackers

With a report from Benedict Galazan (UNTV Reporter) 

Manila, Philippines-"Dito lamang sa programang, bawal ang pikon!” is Kuya Daniel's tagline that marks the ending of each episode on His TV program Get it Straight with Daniel Razon.

The phrase "bawal ang pikon! (Sore loser, not allowed)” might have been so catchy or rather the interview itself is so remarkable that former National Bureau of Investigation Director Epimaco Velasco cannot get over it even days after his guesting in GIS.

Velasco, who guested in Kuya's program last week was quoted saying "bawal ang Pikon” in a heated exchange of statements against another former NBI Director, Mariano Mison.

Sabi ko, pare ‘bawal ang pikon’ and I think he listen… Velasco said, speaking of Mison.

Mison, who was obviously annoyed on Velasco’s words countered “ako?...hindi ako nagagalit, sabi raw nagagalit ako, that’s wrong! …I am a more humorous person than he is”.

The two debated when they were summoned yesterday by the Inter-agency Task Force led by the Justice Department that conducts reinvestigation on the 19-year old Vizconde Massacre Case. Both of them handled the Vizconde Case, during their terms as NBI Directors.

Former Director Velasco, who headed the NBI from July 1992 until March 1995, believed that the recently acquitted suspects in the Vizconde Massacre Case topped by Hubert Webb were really innocent of the crime. While Mison, who succeeded Velasco from 1995 to 1996 believed in the testimony of Jessica Alfaro (The disputed star witness of the case), and is still condemning Webb and others, even after the Supreme Court’s final decision on the case.

After the said hearing of the Inter-agency Task Force, the former directors criticize each other in a separate media interview, in which Velasco insinuates that Mison is ‘pikon’ or a sore loser.

In a Tagalog speaking community, the phrase ‘bawal ang pikon’ is not commonly used. Rather, the more common statement among warring individuals would be huwag kang pikon! or don’t be such a sore loser!.

Admittedly Kuya Daniel’s TV program is one of its kinds, as the host itself is exceptional when he asks questions straight to the point without reservations at the same time cautions (indirectly) his guests that while they are guesting on the program, they are not allowed to be sore losers.

Maybe that is why, after surviving excessive grilling in GIS about the topic: Vizconde Massacre Case, Velasco can hardly forget the program’s tagline “bawal ang pikon!”.

Get it Straight with Daniel Razon, airs in UNTV Channel from Monday to Friday at 7am until 7:45am. The program is replayed through its producer’s cut evening edition at 6:30pm until 7:00pm.#