EMANO (Gold Star Daily file photo by Nitz Arancon)
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Emano to city hall’s demolition team: Keep off the capitol

By SHIELA MAE BUTLIG
Correspondent

MISAMIS Oriental Gov. YevgenyVincenteEmano cautioned a city hall-led demolition team against ridding the capitol roads of illegal structures and other obstructions even as he threatened to take legal action if its members dared to operate in the provincial government-owned compound.

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BAMBI’S POINT. Misamis Oriental Gov. Yevgeny Vincente Emano drives home a point in this undated photo. (Gold Star Daily file / Nitz Arancon)

Emano’s warning came after the spokesman of the city hall-led composite team, Antonio Resma, called on the governor to clear the roads around the capitol himself. Resma said inaction on the part of the provincial government would force the composite team to rid the public roads in the compound of illegal structures and other obstructions.

Resma’s team has been going around the city, demolishing illegal structures encroaching on roads, based on President Duterte’s order for local governments to reclaim public roads.

But Resma’s pronouncement did not sit well with Emano who saw it as a threat from city hall.

Reads part of a statement made public on late Thursday night by Florito “Carlo” Dugaduga, capitol information officer: “Hugot ang baruganan ni Gobernador Bambi Emano nga iyang panalipdan ang mga kabtangan ug propedad nga gipanag ya sa mga katawhan sa lalawigan sa Misamis Oriental. Kini taliwala sa hulga sa mga opisyal sa syudad… nga ilang sudlon ang capitol compound aron gub-on ang mga ilegal nga struktura nga nakababag sa trapiko ug ipatuman ang Presidential Proclamation – Memorandum Circular 121-2019.”

Food vendors occupy a section of a capitol road across the state-run Northern Mindanao Medical Center in downtown Cagayan de Oro. Misamis Oriental Gov. Yevgeny Vincente Emano, in a statement released by the capitol late Thursday night, says he would protect the capitol compound from a city hall team carrying out public road-clearing operations. (photo by Nitz Arancon)

Emano said there was nothing wrong with Duterte’s order to clear the public roads, and he even supports the President’s order that is being implemented nationwide through the interior department. But the governor did not say what exactly he intends to do about the structures and other obstructions encroaching on the public roads around the capitol vis-à-vis President Duterte’s order.

Emano said the city hall-led demolition team should keep off the capitol compound because it is not owned by city hall “ug walay labut sa bisan unsang opisyal nga kalihukan ang mga kadagkuan niini ug dili mahimo nga mag apil-apil sila sa pagdumala sa kagamhanan sa lalawigan.”

Emano said he has ordered the capitol’s legal office to prepare in order to “protect” the provincial government’s property “sa mga tawong lampingasan.”

He then lashed out at city hall even as he called its officials “inutile”  and without initiative, adding that they could have acted on the city’s vehicular traffic problem long before Duterte ordered local governments to reclaim public roads.

Emano added: “Sulbara ang traffic pinaagi sapag-hapsay sa mga nag-unang dalan sasyudad; ipatuman ang no-parking samgahagip-ut nga dalan; klaruhon ang oras sa truck ban; ipa-angat ang kahibalo ug propesyunalismo sa RTA; tutukan ug ayo ang problema, dili unahon ang pagpangawat ug ang paghunahuna ug unsa pay makawat.”

Dugaduga, meanwhile, argued against Resma’s assertion that unless the capitol followed Duterte’s order, the composite team could clear the public roads within the compound because it is located in the city. Dugaduga maintained that the capitol compound is under the provincial government’s jurisdiction.

“Dili na nila pwede buhaton kay jurisdiction man na sa provincial government,” said Dugaduga.

Asked whether or not the capitol has plans of implementing Duterte’s order within the compound, Dugaduga said it would depend on the governor.

Dugaduga also asserted that the roads in the capitol compound are not “common roads.”

“Dili man na common road nga agianan gyud sa mga sakyanan. Kana nga mga dalan para ra man na agian sa mga empleyado sa kapitolyo,” Dugaduga said. “Kung i-demolish man nani Gov, let him do it on his own. Dili kay ang city mo-demolish.”

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