Just reading about the new Mayors plans for cleaning up the city. How long can an honest Mayor hope to live I wonder? Isko starts receiving death threats for efforts to clear Manila’s streets. Barely two weeks in office, Mayor Francisco Isko Moreno Domagoso has already been receiving death threats as a result of his efforts to bring back the city’s roads and streets back to the people of Manila. The mayor earlier revealed that he got an offer of P5 million per day just to stop his order against illegal vendors. https://news.mb.com.ph/2019/07/14/i...r-efforts-to-clear-manilas-streets-councilor/ WOW!
If he survives assassination,this guy will do great things in Manila. He is even open to looking into the waste to energy tech, which is the only real solution to that epic problem. I bet local Eco warriors are having a fit! Apparently,he was pretty poor as a youngster and paid him self through college by working as a bin man in Tondo. I believe he even managed to study at Oxford.
The last thing I read about him, he was trying to deport a Chinese man for pissing in the street. https://www.gmanetwork.com/news/new...-for-peeing-in-public-assaulting-tanod/story/
Moreno earlier said that the United Kingdom offered to help him in restoring Manila. "For the City of Manila to be healthy, as a city or green city, we have to plant 1,600 hectares of green space," he said in a speech during the induction of officers of Rotary Club of Bagumbayan-Manila. He said British Ambassador to the Philippines Daniel Pruce will help his administration "in creating and opening more green spaces in the City of Manila aside from the existing Mehan Garden, Arroceros Park, Lawton and Sunken Garden." https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/07/20/19/mayor-isko-to-create-more-green-spaces-for-a-healthy-manila
45 day final suspension warning to all Metro Manila Mayors. Mayors in Metro Manila could face suspension if they fail to clear streets of illegal vendors and improperly parked vehicles within a month and a half, the head of the region's council of local chief executives said Friday. President Rodrigo Duterte, during his annual report to the nation on Monday, ordered authorities to reclaim thoroughfares that are being used for private ends. The 17 mayors of Metro Manila agreed to do so in a meeting on Thursday with the interior department, which is set to release a memorandum circular based on Duterte's directive, said Parañaque Mayor Edwin Olivarez. https://news.abs-cbn.com/video/news...a-mayors-risk-suspension-over-illegal-parking
Probably the only way to deal with the general indiscipline and corruption in that filthy place, but hopefully it won't just be the low-hanging fruit'...ie the poor, being targeted, as per normal.
Hard to believe but he was a very poor as a kid living in Tondo. Worked as a bin man and a pedicab rider.
Yes, I noted that Boots. Good on him. Must be a rare thing in the Phils, eh, where normally nepotism is rife.
