Buhay partylist Rep. Lito Atienza yesterday described as
“herculean fight against corruption” President Duterte’s directive to dismantle all those who illegally occupy and obstruct a public road or sidewalk.He claimed that those who illegally use of roads and sidewalks are “paying a bribe to somebody”, saying that illegal use of roads and sidewalks involves crooked local motor vehicle traffic bosses, active and retired police and military officers and barangay officials.
“This is the State flexing its muscles and using its police powers to reclaim and give back to the people all the roads and sidewalks that rightfully belong to them,” he said. President Duterte, through Interior and Local Government Secretary Eduardo Año, has directed all governors and mayors down to barangay chairpersons to unblock all roads and sidewalks within their jurisdiction inside 60 days. Failure to implement his order would mean swift administrative suspension.
Meanwhile, he sought the issuance of an executive order that will deal with all the road excavations left unattended by public works contractors and private firms supplying water, gas, electricity and telecommunications services.
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