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By Eldie S. Aguirre
Digos City Bureau Chief

DIGOS City — The City Peace and Order Council (CPOC) here has approved a resolution to ban firecrackers and pyrotechnics in Digos City during the Yuletide season.

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The resolution which is set for submission to the members of the city council for adoption and crafting of an ordinance that will take effect immediately.

“We have to refrain from using firecrackers and pyrotechnics in the forthcoming Christmas and New Year celebration to preempt any untoward incidents that usually occurs during the Holiday season,” Mayor Joseph Peñas, the CPOC presiding chair said.

“We understand the predicament of those who are into the business of selling firecrackers and pyrotechnics, but we have to realize that firecrackerelated accidents can ruin the essence of celebrating the holiday seasons. Instead of merry making some family members are inside the hospital due to injuries caused by firecrackers and pyrotechnics,” Peñas explained his side to CPOC members during its 4th quarterly meeting yesterday.

The mayor said he encourage his constituents to use the classic and traditional way of celebrating the holiday seasons such as banging empty containers, handmade trumpets (torotot), and other means of producing noise, especially on the New Year’s Eve.

“I pity those who are admitted in the hospitals during the celebration which I observe many of them are children who did not take enough precaution while they let those tiny explosives. It is not only the celebrations that will be hampered but the future of the victims could be ruined, especially if they loss their fingers or turn blind due to the exploding firecrackers,” Peñas said.

He said the move is also a gesture of support to the quest of President Rodrigo Duterte to make the Holiday celebration a joyful and memorable one.

Digos City has an existing ordinance that banned the use of firecrackers during any celebrations. It does not include pyrotechnics.

In the previous year, more than 20 stalls lined up along Rizal Avenue in front of Rizal Park selling various kinds of pyrotechnics. However, if the said CPOC resolution will be adopted by the Sangguniang Panlungsod those stalls will no longer be there this Christmas.

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