Last night around 6 p.m. while walking along 19 martyrs st., I noticed an LGU truck slowly crawling along throngs of people, full of confiscated goods, baloons, ati- atihan souvenirs, etc. The person in charge is known to me Mike ( a muslim). I learned that this truckload of goods were confiscated from ambulant vendors for failure to pay the mayors permit. What caught my pity was the sight of vendors trying to follow and talk it out with Mike. My sympathy goes with the poor ambulant vendors trying to earn a little living and the effect of the confiscation, depriving them of little income and losing their capital investments. The second observation, is, why Mike? Where did he get his authority to act as collector, enforcer, confiscator of these goods? Is he an employee of the LGU? Can we ask if these confiscation, or collection is properly inventoried and turned over to the LGU Treasurer? Lastly, where is justice, when such little ambulant vending is overstrictly enforced? What about the violations of hundreds of vendors constructing structure along the street (prohibited) contrary to the No-Vendor Zone? Why are they allowed to occupy the concrete raods.? Assuming a conservative count of 500 such legal vendors registered, LGU should be earning P2.5 Million. This I wish to ask from any official of LGU Kalibo.
Posted on: Sat, 18 Jan 2014 07:32:41 +0000
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