Military escorts teachers in NorCot’s critical brgys

To enforce the city’s Ecological Solid Waste Management Ordinance better, the City Environment and Natural Resources Office (CENRO) is set to deputize barangay officials and enforcers and give them the authority to apprehend and penalize violators to the ordinance.

Under the Ordinance 070621, individuals may be fined P500 for not segregating their garbage while erring establishments will have to pay P5,000.

Although the ordinance contains provisions mandating barangay functionaries as part of the enforcement body, barangay officials still cannot fine violators as most barangay enforcers are yet to be deputized by CENRO.

seminar para maka-issue na sila og citation tickets (So far, I am coordinating with the barangays to conduct a deputation seminar so barangay officials can issue citation tickets),” Gumban said during the Go Clean, Go Green program aired over Davao City Disaster Radio on Tuesday.

“In fact, naa nay tentative schedule by June or July 2023 na magpa-conduct sila og deputation seminar para ma-deputize na ang ilang mga enforcers or tanod so that they can now issue citation tickets sa mga violators (In fact, there is a tentative schedule by June or July this year to conduct a deputation seminar to deputize some enforcers or guards so that they can now issue citation tickets to violators),” he added.

F ollowing the recent killing of a teacher and wounding of another in Pikit, North Cotabato, the military has started providing security escorts to public school teachers in critical villages of the municipality.

Lt. Col. Rowel Gavilanes, the Army’s 90th Infantry Battalion commander, said Wednesday that his unit also deployed motorcycle-riding soldiers “in full battle gear” to protect public school teachers as they travel to their respective schools and on the way home.

“The Department of Edu-

CENRO Information Education Campaign Team Leader Mark Anthony Gumban said their office is coordinating with various barangays in the city to schedule deputation seminars for barangay enforcers to address the problem.

“So far, naga-coordinate nako ani sa mga barangays na mag-conduct sila og deputation

Gumban said that after being deputized, barangay enforcers can issue citation tickets to residents who do not segregate waste as well as those who do not follow the designate schedule and location for trash collection. This will make the barangays