Bello: “I shall return to Davao City” ThisIsOurMindanao
DAVAO CITY — Vice Presidential candidate Walden Bello is “unconcerned and unbothered” that the City Council here declared him ‘persona non grata,’ and vowed to return to this city. The City Council here unanimously passed a resolution on Tuesday condemning Bello’s “malicious tirades” and said the Professor and former Akbayan party-list representative is “not welcome to enter the borders, and the entire territorial jurisdiction of Davao City.
The resolution was sponsored by Councilor Danilo Dayanghirang, chair of the Committee on Finance, Ways and Means and Appropriation, who is running for representative of the 2 congressional district under Hugpong ng Tawong Lungsod , the local party of President Rodrigo Duterte. Bello has been challenging Mayor Sara Duterte to show up during debates with other vice-presidential candidates so the people will know her views on various issues.
Bello was referring to Jefry Tupas, City Information Office chief whom the mayor fired in November after she was “involved in a drug raid” according to the mayor’s statement. Tupas filed on March 7 a complaint for cyberlibel against Bello, for allegedly besmirching her reputation. Tupas demanded “not less than 10 million pesos” in moral damages.
The Vice Presidential debate tackled four issues, one of them corruption. On this particular issue, Bello said he would “focus on cleaning up Davao” and cited the coastal road project which he claimed costs one million pesos per meter, the public utility bus system which he alleged “defrauded so many people” and “Davao as the drug center of the south under the control of a member of the Duterte family.
“Maybe Sara Duterte’s party is confusing me for Polong Duterte?” Bello asked. Mayor Duterte’s elder brother Paolo, and her husband Manases Carpio, were called to a Senate hearing in 2017 for alleged involvement in the 6.4 billion peso shabu shipment from China. Paolo was then Vice Mayor. Both denied the allegations.
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