Ang Galing ng Aklanon?
POLLUTED AIR
Panay News
September 21, 2007
IF you happen to pass by the towns of Balete and Ibajay, Aklan, along the highway there are two areas where the air is heavy with foul, offensive and loathsome odor coming from piggery farms.
If your car is open, there is a chance that houseflies could enter.
Passengers riding on public utility vehicles are forced to cover their mouths for fear that they inhale filthy and poisonous air.
The PENRO under Val Gerardo is likewise an inutile office because it has not done anything to investigate and solve the problem.
Another lousy official.
Even Vice Gov. Inday Billie who is passing the Balete highway everyday as she goes back and forth her office is pestered by the malodorous odor.
Knowing that most of the people in government are derelict, it is the job of the media practitioners in Aklan to denounce the people in PENRO and those in the DENR for their negligence and dereliction of duty.
anonymous
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More on the "tax" (call it whatever you like) collection -
As I understand, right now, to get to Boracay, you have to distribute your wealth to Malay (environmental fee kuno), then move inside the jetty terminal to share some to the province (port or terminal fee), and finally another one for transport fare. Something seems to be missing - where are the Baranggay of Catiklan and the (Regional) Tourism gets in? Also, I suggest the following to have to sit up a stall, side by side with Malay's, - outside the jetty terminal: Kalibo, Numancia, Makato, Tangalan, Ibajay and Nabas. Since these tourists can't be "tax" (otherwise known as passersby tax!) when they pass by these towns, that's the only way they can be taxed. While both the province and Malay are in it, let's all together suck these tourists dry. Most of them won't come back again anymore, anyway. A memory of a lifetime they could cherish ....
Aklanon Man Ra
2 comments:
On this foul smell, that one in Ibajay had once been a lengthy thread over the forum in Aklan.com. Every authority concerned were sent complaint notices, from DENR, to governor all the way down to baranggay captain, to no avail. Such source of foul odor disappeared from the surface of the earth only when the typhoon wiped out completely the said piggery. Said piggery will never exist unless it has the blessing of higher authority/ies. Good, there is still the Most High of them all, which people may have asked for help, and Who didn't ignored their plead.
Still there is one left in that same baranggay - owned by capitana. It's under the coco grove. It's been there for so long that the folks living around got used to it. No more complaints. Nobody listens anyway! This one is close to the barranggay chapel that the priest who celebrated the barrio fiesta mass once mentioned/complained, the strong odor, on his homely having been bothered by it during the occasion. Yet, nothing been done, though it is situated close the Ibajay mayor's house too. No don't beg for a bigger typhoon to blow it up. Lot of folks lives around
... may cause lot of collateral damage.
As a public official, you have to be accessible. One of the ways to be accesible is having an email address where the constituents and others can send their concerns, praises, complaints, etc.
I hope you in Aklan Media can motivate and encourage our local public officials to give you their email addresses, if ever they have. Then please post them in your blog for the information and perusal of everyone.
At leaset please have the email addresses of the Congressman, Governor, Vice Governon, Board Members, and Mayors.
Lacking email addresses, may I recommend that you create one for them in Yahoo, Gmail or Hotmail. Give them the info like username and password to access their mail and then post the email addresses in the blog.
It would help the overseas Aklanon and those who are not Aklan residents but are from Aklan if we know how to get in contact with our local government officials.
Thanks.
Elmar M. Gomez
elmarmgomez2003@yahoo.com
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