Ay, maan lang tinyo dyan, Bernardo! (9)

Women transient vendors picket Miagao town hall. (web photo)
The public market of Miagao, Iloilo is one of its kind in the whole of  Yrong-Yrong Province.

Miagao is the only one In Yrong-Yrong which operates an abattoir right in the heart of its public market in violation of PD 856 or the Sanitation Code of the Philippines which requires that slaughterhouses must be built at least 25 meters from residences, government offices, places of worship, restaurants and public markets, among others.

The outgoing administration of Mayor Julieta in 2013 allotted P4.4 M to erect a new abattoir outside the poblacion. The succeeding rulers led by MakNapul forgot to implement it for reason known only to them.

Further, Miagao's public market is the only one in Yrong-Yrong running into deficits. While other public markets are net earners for their LGUs, Miagao's collections for 2014 is in the red of almost negative P1 M.

Ay, andut ra, Bernardo, haw?

The town spends P20,000 monthly paying geniuses called consultants in order to perk up market operations but the same is just flushed into the smelly drainage ditches around the public market.


Ay, maan dulang tinyo dyan, Bernardo! Basi may tuklo man rugyan, bai?

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