Vice President Jejomar Binay and Mayor Rodrigo Duterte
VICE President Jojo Binay said he left the Aquino Cabinet because he could no longer allow the vilification attacks against the programs of government he had started in Makati City when he was mayor and which he wanted implemented all over the country.
Okay, what programs of government did he launch in Makati City when he was its mayor?
Is one of those programs the construction of Makati City Hall Building II and Makati Science High School building which were found to be grossly overpriced?
Is it giving ordinary but expensive cakes to senior residents of the city on their birthday so that his daughter, Nancy Binay, then unemployed but now a senator, would be able to earn a living?
Is it the alleged rigging of bids for the city’s projects to favor contractors who are friends of the Binay family?
Is buying real estate properties left and right reportedly using taxpayer money part of the programs of government in Makati?
Is allegedly forcing condominium developers to give the Binay the family a unit or the whole floor, on pain of not being granted a building permit, part of Jojo’s programs of government in Makati?
Is having hundreds of millions of pesos deposited in different banks allegedly in his family’s name or those of his cronies part of Binay’s programs of government in Makati?
If Binay wants all those programs when he was Makati mayor carried out if he becomes President, heaven help us!
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“There is a limit to the patience of a man. Enough is enough
(Sobra na, tama na),” said Binay during a speech on his resignation from the Cabinet.
That statement should have come from the people.
Rephrased, the statement would come out this way: “There is a limit to the patience of the people. Enough of your play-acting, Mr. Binay.”
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From 9th position, Davao City has jumped to No. 5 on the list of the world’s safest cities.
The latest survey was made by the crowdsourcing survey site Numbeo.com.
Davao City’s crime index in the latest survey was 18.18 and its safety index, 81.82, compared to 19.31 crime index and safety index of 80.69 in the past survey.
According to the Numbeo.com survey, the Philippines registered a crime index of 43.11 and a safety index of 58.89.
Davao City was next to Bursa City, Turkey, which was considered fourth-safest city in the world.
If Davao City Mayor Rody Duterte becomes President, the Philippines might be in the list of the world’s safest countries.
This would attract foreign tourists and investors to our shores.