President Ferdinand Marcos | PHOTO: Official facebook page of Bongbong Marcos
MANILA, Philippines — President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. on Friday said that local government units (LGUs) with outstanding environmental projects will gain larger incentives.
In line with National Community Development Day on January 6, Marcos deployed a nationwide cleanup program.
“Iniutos ko ang mga kinauukulang ahensiya na isama ang kalinisan sa mga performance guarantees ng mga local na pamahalaan, ang paggawad ng mas malaking premyo at insentibo sa mga LGUs na kahanga-hanga ang mga nagawa sa kalinisan,” said Marcos in a video message.
(I ordered concerned agencies to include cleanliness in the performance guarantees of local governments, and to give larger prizes and incentives to LGUs with outstanding contributions to the environment.)
Marcos encouraged citizens to ensure that their communities are clean, as the government could only do so much. He put an emphasis on individual actions as well.
“We cannot deploy sweepers who will follow each citizen around and pick up every trash that is thrown. We cannot spend tens of billions a year collecting garbage whose volume could have been reduced through individual daily reuse and recycling,” said Marcos.