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BY BOY RYAN ZABAL
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Monday, February 13, 2017
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KALIBO, Aklan – Why are minors still allowed to stay outside their houses after 10 p.m.?
The Sangguniang Bayan believes the two-decade old ordinance imposing curfew on minors was not being enforced.
Municipal Councilor Mark Quimpo urged law enforcers to strictly carry out local curfew laws to protect minors from harm.
On Feb. 5 in Barangay Andagao, two 17-year-old boys slashed the throat of a man playing a game in a computer shop.
They also stabbed a college student outside the computer shop moments later. The victim died in a hospital the following day.
Police said the attacks, which happened past 10 p.m., appeared indiscriminate. The suspects themselves admitted not personally knowing their victims.
Municipal councilors also urged the police and barangay tanods to inspect streets, computer shops and other public places where minors commonly loiter at night.
An ordinance enacted on September 1994 prohibits anyone below 18 years old from loitering in public places from 10 p.m. to 4 a.m.
In December 2011, the Sangguniang Bayan also passed the Code of General Ordinances of Kalibo, Aklan, which includes provisions on loitering in public places.
Minors were not allowed to loiter or wander on streets and public places between 10 p.m. and 4 a.m., except those returning to or going out of their houses for a “legitimate purpose” and those accompanied by parents or guardians.
Chief Inspector Terence Paul Sta. Ana, municipal police chief, stressed the Municipal Social Welfare and Development Office and other concerned agencies should get more involved.
“Police were tasked to enforce the ordinance, but we need the help of social workers,” Sta. Ana said. (Aklan Forum Journal/PN)
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