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BY GLENDA SOLOGASTOA
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ILOILO City – Now free from ukay-ukay, food and other stalls, public plazas such as that of Jaro district have impressed the Archdiocese of Jaro.
For this “noticeable work”, Jaro Archbishop Angel Lagdameo cited Mayor Jose Espinosa’s “determination in leading the city.”
“You have never allowed to make it a market place and a feriahan, Lagdameo wrote Espinosa on Dec. 13.
He was specifically referring to the public plaza just across the Archbishop’s Palace in Jaro district.
For years, vendors of all kinds were allowed to do business at Jaro Plaza, most especially in months prior to the annual Feb. 2 district fiesta of Jaro.
Cleaning up Jaro Plaza had been “the clamor of our people for many years,” according to Lagdameo.
In October Espinosa banned ukay-ukay stalls from all public plazas. In Jaro, he ordered the city government’s Task Force on Anti-Squatting and Illegal Structures to tear down the stalls and remove their illegal electrical connections.
According to Espinosa, ukay-ukay violated Republic Act 4653 (An Act to Safeguard the Health of the People and Maintain the Dignity of the Nation by Declaring it a National Policy to Prohibit the Commercial Importation of Textile Articles Commonly known as Used Clothing and Rags) and Republic Act 7832 (Anti-Electricity and Electric Transmission Lines / Materials Pilferage Act of 1994).
Lagdameo hailed the mayor “for the noticeable work you have done to preserve the cleanliness of our public plazas, especially here in Jaro.”
He also lauded the fixing of broken lamps at the plazas. What used to be dark and gloomy plazas were now worth going around even at night, he observed.
“Indeed, it is only right to hear both from people and the media that you deserve credit for a job well done, seeing your determination in leading the city,” Lagdameo wrote Espinosa.
The archbishop said the Church would always be praying for the mayor.
“We hope to work with our city (government) under your administration in promoting peace, the common good and progress of our city,” according to Lagdameo.
Cleaning up the plaza started in October. They were lighted and repainted to promote public safety, said Espinosa.
In Jaro Plaza alone, some 20 Light Emitting Diode (LED) lamps were installed./PN
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