Malacañang is asking....

.... san napunta ang budget para sa flood control!

MMDA asked to explain ‘wasted’ P1-billion flood warning system
October 10, 2009, 7:24pm

Malacañang said on Saturday that it will ask Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) Chairman Bayani Fernando to explain the P1-billion flood warning system allegedly put to waste, which could have prevented the massive flooding during the onslaught of tropical storm “Ondoy” in the metropolis.

“We’re asking MMDA Chairman Bayani Fernando to explain this both to the public and to the Cabinet to the satisfaction of all because this is a serious issue indeed,” Press Secretary Cerge Remonde said.

moro moro lang yan cerge. pero just in case hindi sagutin or bolahin ka ni BF.... baka napunta dito.

Reports said that the P1-billion flood warning system had been neglected following its transfer to the MMDA.

The flood warning system could have cushioned the adverse effects, particularly the heavy flooding experienced in the metropolis in late September during the lashing of tropical storm “Ondoy.

Based on a report by Newsbreak, the Japanese project Effective Flood Control Operation System (EFCOS) could have minimized casualties if the flood warning equipment and devices had reportedly been well maintained when it was transferred to the MMDA.

The flood warning system reportedly amounted to P1.1 billion, aimed at controlling flood control operations for the Pasig-Marikina-Laguna Lake.

The Japanese government had pegged P600-million for the first phase of the project, which was completed in 1992 while the second phase, at P500-million was funded through a grant by the Japan International Cooperation Agency, which was completed in 2001. The project was turned over to the MMDA in 2002. (Madel Sabater)

http://www.mb.com.ph/articles/224132/mmda-asked-explain-wasted-p1billion-flood-warning-system

Bayani Fernando's Favorite Charities

COA: Giving cash gifts to MMDA chair irregular

Money went to charities, says Fernando
By Christine Avendaño
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 00:27:00 06/02/2009

Filed Under: Government, Graft & Corruption, Politics, Festive Events (including Carnivals)
hahaha carnivals

MANILA, Philippines--Giving P1.6 million in cash to Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) Chairman Bayani Fernando was "irregular," a government auditor told senators yesterday.

"It's irregular because it's not compliant with rules and regulations," said Ireno Manalo of the Commission on Audit, referring to the cash gifts the Metro Manila Film Festival (MMFF) gave to Fernando on four separate occasions.

Manalo, who is also the MMDA's supervising auditor, made the statement after Senator Ramon "Bong" Revilla Jr. asked him whether the cash gifts were "illegal or legal."

The Senate yesterday started looking into the matter after Senate President Pro Tempore Jose "Jinggoy" Estrada's privilege speech last month questioning the cash gifts given to Fernando.

According to Estrada, the MMDA chief received a total of P1.1 million when he celebrated his birthday in 2003, 2005, and 2006. The amount was deducted from the MMFF's nontax revenues as well as the shares of beneficiaries from the proceeds of the annual film festival.

At the first joint hearing of the Senate blue ribbon and public information and mass media, Assistant Secretary Edenison Faisan, head of the MMFF finance committee, said that Fernando also received a cash gift of P500,000 in 2004, bringing the total amount to P1.6 million.

Estrada and Revilla learned from MMFF officials that Fernando was given the birthday cash gifts for his role in making the annual filmfest a moneymaker. The MMDA chief is the overall head of the MMFF.

Espiridion Laxa, chair of the Film Academy of the Philippines, said the money did not come from amusement taxes but from private funds, specifically from sponsorships.

The senators expressed surprise when Manalo told them that there was no record of the amount of amusement taxes collected or disbursed in the MMDA's books of account.

so saan na punta ang pera?

Meanwhile, Fernando said he saw no need to defend himself in the Senate because the cash gifts given to him came from "private funds."

private or public you need to explain these Mr. Chairman. You are being accused of corruption

"I don't know why they said it was irregular. I didn't do anything wrong. In the first place, it's private funds kaya hindi ina-audit ng COA 'yan (that's why these are not audited by COA)," he told the Inquirer over the phone.

Fernando said he did not attend the hearing because it was "pointless." He added, however, that he would present himself before the Senate "in due time."

At the same time, he confirmed that he received the cash gifts although he said the money went to his "favorite charities."

anong mga charities kaya yon?

With Allison W. Lopez

http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/inquirerheadlines/metro/view/20090602-208328/COA-Giving-cash-gifts-to-MMDA-chair-irregular

Gawain ng isang baliw

Ang baliw at gawain ng isang baliw ay hindi dapat pinagtatawanan. kasi ang baliw wala sa tamang pag iisip. dapat sa kanila itapon sa mental hospital.



picture got from frumpyandgrumpy

nagpapatawa ba ang MMDA? bakit hindi ako natatawa. mga baliw!

U-turn slot = likuan u? HINDI! gawain nga ng baliw eh
Lee Kwan Yee = BF? HINDI! magbasa muna kayo ng history books
Singapore = Marikina? HINDI! galing na ako sa singapore at marikina... malayong malayo

mga tarantado!

Gusto nyo masuka....

punta kayo dito. BABALA NAKAKASUKA.

from big billboards to this...

BF Labs MMDA

picture courtesy of pakset101

sa tingin ninyo, ano ba lab ni BF... taong bayan, MMDA o pera?

Why Fernando loves it at the MMDA

Written by Omerta / Butch del Castillo

Thursday, 08 January 2009 22:09

http://businessmirror.com.ph/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=4322:why-fernando-loves-it-at-the-mmda&catid=28:opinion&Itemid=64

Of all the government agencies, the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) under Chairman Bayani Fernando seems to be the most “autonomous,” as far as running its financial affairs are concerned. Through the MMDA, Fernando has been carrying on as if he were the chief of state of an independent republic. It looks like he will continue to enjoy this privileged status for as long as he remains on the good side of President Arroyo.

Nobody with oversight powers has so far questioned him on how he has been running MMDA finances. And that’s just the way he likes it, it seems.

The Commission on Audit (COA), as a rule, is averse to the idea of zealously exercising its mandated power of review on a fellow agency directly reporting to the President. Only if and when President Arroyo herself specifically directs it to step in and review this agency’s books of accounts will the COA dare do its mandated job. But the President, who has been dotingly giving Chairman Fernando a free hand in running the MMDA, never once ordered such an audit over the past six years. Sad, but true. If only she knew what a devastating effect the MMDA’s excesses and crazy schemes have had on her own satisfaction rating in Metro Manila, she would have long booted him out.

As things now stand, the COA leaves the MMDA pretty much to its own devices. There has been no directive to that effect from the mountain- top so far.

What we have in the MMDA is an agency that has been handling untold billions in revenues, whose annual budget and expenditures have not once been subjected to a meticulous audit since Fernando took over six years ago. The MMDA’s financial affairs have never been conducted in “open sunlight” for the public to readily behold.

The MMDA’s virtual immunity from audit, plus its unwillingness to open its books, can only give rise to the suspicion that a lot of financial hanky-panky must be going on in this highly controversial agency.

Already, Fernando’s aggressiveness in promoting the use of those iron railings, iron urinals and overhead pedestrian walkways (also made of iron) all over the metropolis has provoked all sorts of speculations, all of them derogatory to Fernando.

Who is supplying these iron contraptions? Which metal fabricators are getting a bonanza of orders from the MMDA? How are these procurements priced? Are such purchases in accordance with the provisions of the procurement law? Are honest-to-goodness public biddings being held, or are they routinely rigged to favor favored suppliers and contractors?

The fact that Fernando is a civil engineer and that he owns several companies in the construction and steel-fabrication business only makes the public all the more suspicious. It may be strictly happenstance, but add to that input his public declaration that he would run for the presidency in 2010, and the public can’t help but put two and two together.

Fernando has blanketed the countryside with his expensive two-by-three-meter kaayusan all-weather posters. The question is, who paid for these posters? Let’s hope it wasn’t the MMDA, but only an audit can determine this for sure. In any case, the question that must be on the minds of prospective rival presidential candidates is this: How did Fernando build up the political war chest that he has begun to use for his precampaign propaganda?

To sustain a decent presidential campaign, one needs a minimum of P5 billion. As speculation would have it, Fernando has amassed more than double that amount.

The question is inevitably this: Can being chairman for six years of an audit-free MMDA be that lucrative? The public recalls quite vividly that about four years ago, the President had appointed Fernando as public-works secretary in a concurrent capacity (he didn’t want to let go of the MMDA). It did not take long before he casually chucked the public-works portfolio.

Why? I can only think of one reason: Technically, the government agency charged with the responsibility of taking care of national roads everywhere, including those in Metro Manila, is the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH).

(In Metro Manila, that function has all but been taken over by the MMDA. All contracts pertaining to these national roads are awarded by the MMDA.)

As public-works secretary, in short, he would be in constant conflict with himself.

Moreover, as public-works chief, all DPWH expenditures and contracts would have been subject to regular auditing and review not only by the COA, but also by the House appropriations committee, which decides on the size of the government’s yearly infrastructure budget.

At the MMDA, in stark contrast, public funds are practically audit-free, just like the intelligence fund of the President, which is exempt from pre- or postaudit regulations. So Fernando sacrificed the DPWH portfolio and retained the MMDA chairmanship. As MMDA chairman, he has the best of both worlds.

How very clever of him!

graft cases of Bayani Fernando

Metro Pink Panget

Metro in pink irks left-wing solons

House probe sought
http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/inquirerheadlines/metro/view/20090105-181421/Metro-in-pink-irks-left-wing-solons



MANILA, Philippines—For these “Reds,” Metro Manila hardly looks pretty in pink.

A group of left-leaning lawmakers wants the House of Representatives to investigate—in aid of legislation—the use by the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) of bright pink as standard color for road signs and structures.

The group says the pink signs and structures not only mar the urban landscape but also violate local and international safety regulations.

“[They] are, at best, eyesores that worsen the visual blight plaguing Metro Manila,” according to a resolution filed last month by Bayan Muna Representatives Satur Ocampo and Teodoro Casiño; Gabriela Representatives Liza Maza and Luzviminda Ilagan; and Anakpawis Rep. Rafael Mariano.

MMDA Chair Bayani Fernando, however, is standing by his motif, saying the national capital’s “drab environment” can use a rosy accent here and there.

BF's poor attempt at humor. drab environment! mas pinapanget nga ni BF ang metro manila dahil sa mga posters nya. dagdag mo na dyan yung mga pink sinks nya.

He maintains there is no “ban” on the use of pink for such public structures.

The lawmakers describe the pink signs and structures as nuisances that “offend the senses” and are prohibited under the Civil Code.

The group also argues that Fernando’s choice of color violates the Vienna Convention on Road Signs and Signals and similar international agreements in which the Philippines is a signatory.

The convention, the lawmakers say, specifies white, yellow, red, black, blue, green, orange and gray as internationally accepted colors for road signs, road markings and traffic lights. It also sets a standard size and shape for particular types of traffic signs, the lawmakers add.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_sign
http://www.lto.gov.ph/traffic1.html

Nuisance defined

The agreement, forged in 1968, took effect on June 6, 1978.

The lawmakers say the MMDA traffic signs violate the country’s own Civil Code, which defines public nuisances as “any act, omission, establishment, condition of property, or anything (which) annoys or offends the senses.”

hindi lang mga pink signs ang nakaka offend. pati ito o nakaka offend



Under the code, public nuisances can be the subject of a court case or a claim for damages.

Administrative Order No. 160-A, based on the National Building Code, also bans billboards and signboards that defile, debase or offend the aesthetic and cultural values and traditions of the Filipino people, according to the lawmakers.

sama nyo na rin dyan yung mga posters ng mga politico sa metro manila. lalo na sa quezon city.

The resolution is urging the House committee on Metro Manila development to check whether the use of pink had the approval of the Metro Manila Council—the policy-making body of the MMDA—and how much public funds had been spent for the structures.

‘Help for pedestrians’

Fernando, who had earned both praise and criticism as a no-nonsense, iron-fisted enforcer since becoming MMDA chair in 2002, has early on defended his preference for pink traffic signs, fences, walkways and sidewalk urinals.

mostly criticism. sira ulo na lang ang mag pupuri sa kanya

Reached for comment on the House resolution, Fernando insists that his agency has not violated any Philippine law or international standard. “There is no ban on the use of pink,” he says in Filipino.


“The pink signs are for pedestrians so they can easily [tell] that it’s for them, because most of the signs are for motorists. It’s there to help them,” Fernando says.

check mo ito
" Fluorescent pink signs are sometimes used for incident management warning."

And besides, pink is perfect for the “drab environment”’ of Metro Manila, he says. “It’s different and attractive.”

tado! green ang tamang kulay! lahat ng lungsod sa mundo eh green ang ginagamit para pagandahin ang lugar nila. hindi sa pamamagitan ng pagpintura ng verde kundi sa pagtatanim ng mga puno. dito nga sa metro manila pinagpuputol pa ng mmda yung mga puno tapos yung iba nilalagyan pa ng posters nya.

Pink of health

Fernando says the MMDA has chosen pink for its footbridges, for example, so pedestrians could easily spot them.

paint them in red or in orange to dick!

“I [first] used the color green when I was mayor of Marikina. The pink evolved when the World Health Organization designated Marikina as outstanding healthy city. So we came up with a motto: ‘Marikina, the City in the Pink of Health.’ To dramatize this, we began using pink,” he says.

“It’s the same thing we want for Metro Manila—for it to be in the pink of health.”

cheap political gimick. neknek mo BF. pink ang ginamit ng asawa mo noong election. WHO ka pa dyan. gimik lang yan. si Marcos pula, si cory yellow...
sinasayang pera natin. im sure after mawala na yan sa pwesto si el gwapo mawawala na yang pink signs na yan. kasi pipinturahan yan ng next political appointee na chairman.

The MMDA chair says he welcomes the House investigation and takes it as an opportunity to explain his color preference. “Hopefully, we will also get them to love pink,” he says.

VIDEO: BF uses 150 MMDA trucks to celebrate his singing contest victory

Miriam, kinatigan ni Golez vs Bayani sa paggamit ng l50 trak

December 18, 2008 05:38 PM Thursday

http://www.journal.com.ph/index.php?issue=2008-12-18&sec=4&aid=80759

Sinuportahan kahapon ng isang Metropolitan Manila solon ang panawagan ni Sen. Miriam Defensor-Santiago na imbestigahan kung pondo umano ng Metro Manila Development Authority (MMDA) ang ginamit ni Chairman Bayani Fernando sa 150 trucks at mobiles ng ahensiya na sumama sa parada para ipagbunyi ang tagumpay nito sa Celebrity Duets ng GMA 7.

Nanindigan si Parañaque City Rep. Roilo Golez sa kahalagahan na malaman ang katotohanan sa likod ng mga alegasyon na nagagamit umano ang pondo ng ahensiya para sa presidential bid ni Fernando.

VIDEO: Roilo Golez castigates MMDA Chairman Bayani Fernando for Saying No Speed Limit on EDSA

Militants Beautifies Metro Manila

Militants deface Bayani Fernando posters in QC

MANILA, Philippines - Militants resumed Sunday their spray-painting of posters and tarpaulins of Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) chairman Bayani Fernando, focusing their efforts in Quezon City.

Radio dzBB's Allan Gatus reported that members of Kadamay defaced the posters of Fernando, including those calling for discipline and those congratulating him for winning a TV singing contest.

The group concentrated its activities in some areas of Quezon City, including Commonwealth Avenue, Epifanio delos Santos Avenue (EDSA) and Kamuning.

Thank you for making Metro Manila beautiful. Sana kinuha nyo na lang yung mga posters at itapon.

Also, the group said it is planning a protest march to Mendiola Bridge against Fernando scheduled Dec. 1 and 2.

Militants accused Fernando of violating human rights with the MMDA's clearing operations targeting sidewalk vendors.

But a Q-11 television report Saturday night quoted Fernando as saying the vendors who are the targets of clearing operations should pay legitimate rent in markets instead of protection money to syndicates that let them place stalls in the sidewalk. - GMANews.TV

dapat BF tinatarget mo eh yung mga syndicates. baka nga mga tauhan mo yon.


http://www.gmanews.tv/story/133822/Militants-deface-Bayani-Fernando-posters-in-QC

Metro Gago

Funny but true

courtesy of pakshet101

Libingan ni Bayani

Lintek talaga itong Bayani Fernando na ito. pati sementeryo tinadtad ng mga panget na posters. nagkakalat ng lagim sa sementeryo. too bad hindi ako nakapunta sa loyola today kasi masama ang pakiramdam ko, baka hindi ko kayanin yung biyahe at yung mukha ni BF. ito na lang ang ilalagay kong picture.



pinoyweekly.org

wala ka talagang hiya ito BF at asawa nya. bakit ba sobrang desperado si bf maging presidente ng pilipinas? kahit sementeryo binaboy! bakit? may tinataguan bang multo...? o graft cases?

Fernando’s tarpaulins, posters at Marikina cemetery rile Golez

http://www.tribune.net.ph/metro/20081031met2.html

10/31/2008

Metropolitan Manila Development Authority Chairman Bayani Fernando is not letting the All Saints’ Day pass without a pitch for the presidency.

This was the reaction of Parañaque Rep. Roilo Golez yesterday after seeing Fernando’s posters and tarpaulins at the Loyola Memorial Park in Marikina City whose mayor, Marides Fernando, is the wife of the presidential aspirant.

Golez said he was at the memorial park to pay his respects to his father, sister and parents-in-law only to see the tarpaulins of Fernando all over the place.

“Dito ako sa Loyola Marikina...dalaw sa puntod ng father, sister and parents-in-law. Yong gate ng Loyola, tadtad ng tarpaulins ni Bayani (Fernando). The guy is really running a shameless campaign,” Golez said in a text message sent to House reporters.

Golez has filed a case against Fernando before the Office of the Ombudsman in connection with alleged misuse of public funds.

Golez posited that Fernando has diverted flood control funds for Metro Manila to the printing of his tarpaulins and to the construction of the U-turn slots. The Ombudsman has yet to act on the charges.

Gerry Baldo


more reactions from Leslie Bocobo

BF, hypocrite or dumb?

Blog of the Promdi Novice Traveler

..."What galls me the most is the supposed message he was saying, "Ang mga batas ay solusyon, dapat alamin at sundin". Shouldn't he be saying this in front of a mirror? If you yourself cant follow the law, then you have no business telling others to do so!"...




Zoom shot




BF, for your information
May speed limit sa EDSA.
Using public funds for personal gain is a crime

hypocrite - a person who acts in contradiction to his or her stated beliefs or feelings
http://mw1.meriam-webster.com/dictionary/hypocrite

dumb - lacking intelligence, not having the capability to process data
http://mw1.meriam-webster.com/dictionary/dumb

Hindi ko alam kung hyporcrite o dumb si BF... baka both? nagtatanong lang po... you be the judge

Bayani Ferando: Buking sa Cavite

MANILA, Philippines--Posters of Bayani Fernando, chairman of the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority, are being put up outside the jurisdiction of his office -- in Bacoor, Cavite. Video taken by INQUIRER.net reporter Veronica Uy along the highway in Talaba.

HULI KA!

Bayani in Cavite

http://www.inquirer.net/vdo/player.php?vid=1794

more here

No Limit

Good news for bus drivers: No speed limit along EDSA

The sky is the limit in EDSA!

Chairman Bayani Fernando of the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority said Wednesday that the agency has not imposed a speed limit along EDSA, the main highway across Metro Manila.

"There's no specific speed limit," Fernando told ABS-CBN's morning show, "Umagang Kay Ganda," adding that the MMDA is still in studying traffic along the longest highway in the capital region.

He said in a highway like EDSA the speed limit is usually 100 kilometers per hour. "That's really fast, but that is the usual speed limit on highways."

There's no limit to the idiocy, stupidity, arrogance, and insanity of Bayani Fernando! if BF was an ordinary bureaucrat, in Arroyo's stolen administration, he would had been fired on the spot. I don't know why he is still working for this gov't. ano ba meron si BF kay Gloria?

to the dwindling BF supporters... is this the person you want to be president of the philippines?

Before dawn Tuesday, Dr. Francisco "Toto" Sarabia burned to death after a racing bus crashed into his car, which instantly exploded during the impact.

BF should be held liable for Dr. Sarabia's death. BF you are an idiot! EDSA is not the SLEX nor NLEX...you dick!

Footage taken by ABS-CBN News on Wednesday dawn showed speeding buses and private cars along EDSA. It was as if the tragic road accident that killed the doctor did not happen.

Sarabia's Mercedes Benz was following a bus, which was parked outside the loading and unloading bay of EDSA in front of Camp Aguinaldo, when a speeding Joana Jesh bus crashed into it.

The Mercedes Benz's gas tank exploded and created a blaze that totally gutted the vehicle and killed the doctor. The doctor's legs were reportedly cut off at the impact and he was already unconscious when the fire consumed his body.

ilang aksidente pa BF... ilang tao pa ba ang kailangang mamatay BF? Resign Now!

Meanwhile, ABS-CBN News also caught on video a Joana Jesh bus plying the northbound lane of Cubao, Quezon City.

This, despite the Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB) issued a 30-day suspension on the Joana Jesh Transport.

LTFRB Chairman Thompson Lantion said the agency issued the suspension pending the investigation on the possible neglect of the bus company, which could have led to the freak road accident.

LTFRB... dapat i-drug test at neuro-psychological exam nyo lahat ng mga bus drivers...sama nyo na rin sa test/exam na yan si BF.

as of 10/22/2008 8:48 AM

http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/nation/metro-manila/10/22/08/good-news-bus-drivers-no-speed-limit-along-edsa

Rail loop stalling blamed on Fernando

THE Light Rail Transit Authority is taking to task Chairman Bayani Fernando of the Metro Manila Development Authority for delaying the P6.4-billion billion government-financed project to connect the Metro Rail Transit on Edsa and the Light Rail Transit Line 1.

LRTA Administrator Mel Robles said the MMDA was yet to issue permits to contractor DMCI-First Balfour, including approvals for changes in the infrastructure.

“The delay is not of our making. It’s actually the MMDA and Chairman Bayani Fernando who are holding up the construction,” he told reporters.

i wonder why is he delaying this project?

“We have already broken ground for the construction work last June. But the MMDA has failed to issue excavation permits because of some issues it raised about the railway construction design.”

The project will add 5.4 kilometers to the MRT line from its North Avenue station in Quezon City to link up with the LRT Line 1 terminal in Monumento, Caloocan City.

Robles said Fernando wanted the height clearance of the elevated railway section changed from the planned 5 meters to 14.7 meters.

ano ba pake ni BF dito? hindi naman siya civil engeer (mechanical engineer po siya).

5 meters = 16.4041 feet

14.7 meters = 48.2283 feet

Such a major change would set back construction by about six months at the cost of P1.2 billion.

need i say more

“That is a big problem. We can’t make any changes to the design just like that. First, because the design we will be following was the approved design by all the government agencies such as the Neda [National Economic Development Authority] and the DoTC [Department of Transportation and Communications] after so many studies.”

eto na naman ang magaling na mechanical engineer na pumapapel sa isang project na pang civil engineer. remember the C5 elevated u-turn (or what my civil engineer friend calls..."the monument to Bayani Fernando's stupidity")

http://mgasidecommentsko.blogspot.com/search/label/C5

http://www.manilastandardtoday.com/?page=police2_oct16_2008

By Florante S. Solmerin

Bayani Fernando Tarpaulin 2.0

Still ugly --- Bayani Fernando and his posters
Still funded by the MMDA --- funded by YOU the tax payer


pictures courtesy of Bambit
http://pindutinmoto.blogspot.com/2008/10/bf-tarpaulins-remixed.html

Fernando bows to interpellators at hearing of MMDA budget

10/14/2008

Flamboyant as he is, Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) Chairman Bayani Fernando was almost reduced to smithereens during the late Friday night deliberation on his agency’s budget at the House of Representatives.

The interpellation on MMDA budget was actually one of the much awaited episodes of the recently concluded House budget debates and minority solons Senior Deputy Minority Leader Roilo Golez and Rep. Abby Binay did not disappoint the audience of lawmakers and the people in the gallery.

Using a powerpoint display of pictures and documents, Golez gave a blistering critique of Fernando’s controversial MMDA projects.

Ah yes the power of microsoft power point...hahaha

Saying MMDA personnel have been involved in the theft of the LRT vertical clearance post and with their headquarters fronting Edsa reminiscent of a junkyard, Golez said the MMDA tarpaulins should be directed to themselves instead of the public.

As expected, Golez lashed out at Fernando for trying to convert the highly urbanized Metro Manila into a giant tapestry of pink.

“Fernando’s color in Marikina is pink and he is using government funds to make Metro Manila a giant pink poster for his political ambition,” Golez said.

political gimik lang talaga yang pink pink na yan.

Golez also sought an explanation why Metro Manila still continues to suffer from floods in spite of the promises by Fernando there will be no more floods in the metrpolis after being granted billions of pesos for flood control project.

ang tanong... saan napunta yung pera para sa flood prevention/control ng MMDA.
napunta ba sa mga mmda billboards/posters?
ginastos ba ng mmda ang pera para sa mga bayan at lungsod na hindi naman sakop ng metro manila?
ginamit ba sa personal interest?

nagtatanong lang po

On top of that, Golez accused Fernando of overpricing in the Bicutan footbridge which was constructed to the tune of P98 million.

holy shit!!! wow! mr uncorruptable... sabi nga ng isang BF supporter.

For her part, Binay questioned the MMDA’s P22-million intelligence fund which is almost the same as that of the intelligence fund of the Army.

buking! ano ang dahilan bakit may intelligence fund ang mmda? is it to spy on mmda critics? is it to snoop on online BF bashers (like me). is it to increase the intelligence of mmda traffic enforcers (most of them don't know traffic rules, starting with BF himself...lintek hindi nya nga alam na may speed limit sa edsa). is BF affraid of something or someone?

Charlie V. Manalo

http://www.tribune.net.ph/metro/20081014met4.html

Facelift mo mukha mo

MMDA: Metro ‘facelift’ almost complete

http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/inquirerheadlines/metro/view/20081006-164794/MMDA-Metro-facelift-almost-complete

By DJ Yap Philippine Daily Inquirer First Posted 04:24:00 10/06/2008

MANILA, Philippines—Metro Manila is on the verge of achieving what the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority calls "Metro Gwapito" status by yearend, with almost half of all sidewalks and roadways cleared of obstructions, its top official said Sunday.

Talaga lang ha. another self serving message from BF.

"We're at the tipping point. By December 2008, Metro Manila will have reached Metro Gwapito status," MMDA Chair Bayani Fernando said in the radio program, "MMDA sa GMA" over dzBB.

facelift mo mukha mo!

kahit mga doctor sa america mahihirapan sa mukhang ito.

"Metro Gwapito" is the first phase of Fernando's "Metro Gwapo (A Handsome Metro)" campaign, which seeks to beautify the metropolitan landscape by 2010 but has drawn brickbats from urban poor communities displaced by such operations.

parang nicho. malinis at maputi sa labas pero bulok sa loob

Fernando, who has expressed a desire to run for president, said the agency has cleared some 2,000 kilometers of paved roads of obstructions like vending stalls and shanties – close to half of the metropolis' 5,000 kilometers of roads and sidewalks.

"Our campaign to rid the streets of all these unsightly obstructions is getting lighter and lighter as more residents become more conscientious. Now they're aware of their limitations and do not think like thugs," the official said.

Speaking of "unsightly" and "thug"

http://bambit.kusangpalo.com/2008/bayani-bf-fernando-is-watching-you.html

Not everyone, however, is as appreciative of Fernando's take-no-prisoners stance against sidewalk vendors, squatters and other inhabitants of urban poor communities.

Last week, a group of young militants labeled the MMDA chair a "berdugo" (executioner) as they picketed the MMDA offices to protest the agency's policy on street hawkers and illegal settlers.

The protesters belonging to the urban poor group, Kalipunan ng Damayang Mahihirap, assailed the MMDA's operations around Metro Manila, which they said displaced many of them from their homes and made them lose their only source of a decent income.

Such criticism has not perturbed Fernando, who has said in several interviews that more city residents prefer his strict management practices in preserving order in the metropolis.

talaga lang ha?!

He said this type of consciousness about maintaining order and cleanliness had even reached the barangay (village) level in Metro Manila and nearby provinces.

speaking of nearby provinces

"It's high time that we inspire the people to be more productive and to rise up from the shackles of poverty," Fernando said in a statement prepared by the MMDA's public information office.

ha? paano mo ma iinspire ang mga tao eh nagtratrabaho na nga ng marangal tratratuhin mo naman parang basahan.

He said MMDA personnel had already finished the "facelift" along the length of Quirino Highway in Novaliches, Quezon City, as well as the center islands on Balintawak.

Nasaan na ang pera BF?

Fernando fails to account for flood control funds; MMDA budget deferred

http://www.tribune.net.ph/metro/20080927met1.html

By Gerry Baldo

09/27/2008

Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) Chairman Bayani Fernando could not account for the millions of pesos in flood control funds being used by his agency even as lawmakers were surprised to learn that Fernando is ignorant of the basic speed limit along Edsa, the major artery that links the north and southern part of Metro Manila.

tsk tsk tsk.... nasaan ang pera? ano nangyari sa pera na dapat ginamit sa flood control dito sa metro manila? saan napunta? baka naman eh nandito o dito napunta

http://mgasidecommentsko.blogspot.com/2008/08/where-in-philippines-is-bayani-fernando.html

According to House deputy minority leader Rep. Roilo Golez, he moved to defer the MMDA budget on the note of Fernando’s statement that there was no speed limit on Edsa.

“I moved to defer, and this was carried, the consideration of the budget of the MMDA when Chairman Fernando said at a formal hearing that there was no speed limit on Edsa and that he was even encouraging motorists to go as fast as they can,” Golez said yesterday.

Golez added it was reckless and irresponsible on the part of the MMDA chairman, who is tasked with managing Edsa traffic, to say there was no speed limit on Edsa.

“If drivers heed his statement, Edsa would become a death avenue with all the resulting deadly collisions,” Golez said.

In spite of the “many unanswered questions on flood control, travels and tarpaulins,” the hearing was moving smoothly prior to that statement.

The move to defer the MMDA budget started when Fernando refuted Golez’ s statement, in the course of the budget hearing that touched on several issues, including Fernando’s use of several police escorts, the huge tarpaulins, the U-turn slots and the MMDA’s use of flood control funds, that motorists should comply with a 60-kph speed limit along Edsa.

Fernando said there was no such limit and that he is encouraging motorists to go as fast as they can on Edsa.

“Actually, it’s more than that (60 kph), your honor. They can run as much as they can. We have to speed up the vehicles (along Edsa),” Fernando told members of the House appropriations committee.

Golez said he was willing to withdraw his motion if Fernando takes back his statement and tell the lawmakers that he was only joking.

“No, I’m not kidding your honor. I encourage motorists to move faster (along Edsa),” Fernando answered back. On that note Rep. Abigail Binay seconded Golez’s motion.

“I move to defer because this budget may be used to promote traffic accidents on Edsa. It’s a reckless, irresponsible statement coming from the MMDA chief,” Golez said.

“If drivers heed his statement, Edsa would become a death avenue with all the resulting deadly collisions.”

Golez maintained the statement, coming from the MMDA chief, would have dire implications.

Muntinlupa City Rep. Ruffy Biazon, who heads the sub-committee on appropriations which heard the MMDA budget yesterday, concurred with Golez and Binay.

Biazon said “the budget deserves to be deferred.”

Earlier at the hearing, lawmakers also lamented Fernando’s failure to produce a copy of an approved resolution coming from the Metro Manila Council — composed of 17 mayors — that is required before the MMDA budget is discussed.

Upon the warning of Biazon that the committee will not allow another failure to bring the resolution, Fernando said he would try his best.

“Best efforts, your honor. I cannot promise (that we will deliver), but we will exert efforts. We will try to give that in time for plenary deliberations your honors,” Fernando said.

“We do hope that your best will be good enough. But next time we will not allow that,” Biazon said.

Fernando could not likewise provide lawmakers a breakdown of the flood control funds and projects for each local government unit in Metro Manila.

Fernando told lawmakers that it might take him “too long” to produce documents pertaining to the flood control funds.

ano ba yan! yan ba ang presidential candidate? yan ba ang owner ng isang contruction company? hindi alam kung saan napupunta ang pera ng kanyang opisina o company? why too long? sabi nga ng kaibigan kong auditor, kung malinis at matino mga libro mo, hindi mahirap itong ipakita sa mga auditors.

Bayani goes to congress

House panel defers MMDA budget hearing over Bayani statement

utak tabutso statements from BF

http://www.gmanews.tv/story/123164/House-panel-defers-MMDA-budget-hearing-over-Bayani-statement

MANILA, Philippines - Opposition lawmakers on Friday succeeded in deferring the hearing for the Metro Manila Development Authority's (MMDA) proposed 2009 budget after MMDA chief Bayani Fernando said drivers can go as fast as they can along the almost 24-kilometer EDSA road that traverses the northern and southern parts of Metro Manila.

siguro kung merong police / traffic escort

"I move to defer the budget of the MMDA because this budget may be used to promote traffic accidents in EDSA," said Senior Deputy Minority leader Roilo Golez.

Makati City Representative Mar-Len Abigail Binay, daughter of former MMDA chief and current Makati City Mayor Jejomar Binay, seconded the motion.

During the subcommittee hearing, Golez questioned Bayani's use of motorcycled police escorts, saying that a circular distributed by President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo said only the President, Vice-President, Supreme Court Chief Justice, Senate President, House Speaker, and Philippine National Police chief can have them.

oh kaya naman pala sinasabi nya na mabilis ang traffic sa edsa, may escort na hagad si gago...este gwapo.

Bayani justified his hiring of police escorts by saying that the cops accompanying him on his travels are traffic enforcers who attend to traffic problems that they may encounter along the way.

"We manage the traffic in Metro Manila, and my escorts are traffic enforcers," Fernando replied.

wow pare! may brain damage na yata itong si BF. anong klaseng statement yan. anong klaseng pagiisip ito! eh hindi lang traffic enforcers ang kasama ni BF pati ambulance sama din. i know nakita ko na dati convoy ni el kwago sa edsa.

Fernando added that he has police escorts to manage the traffic so he would get to his destination on time--a statement which Golez questioned, saying Fernando has been bragging that Metro Manila traffic has now eased and drivers can now go as fast as 60 kilometers per hour along EDSA.

sino niloko nito? siguro kung mahal na araw ka lang makaka 60kph sa edsa.

Fernando replied by saying drivers can even go beyond 60 kilometers per hour because the MMDA wants as little traffic congestion as possible.


"More than that, as much as you can," Fernando retorted.

A visibly bothered Golez then moved to defer the budget.

"That to me is a very reckless, irresponsible statement on the part of the MMDA chairman," Golez said.

halatang nagyayabang si BF

Golez said he would withdraw his motion to defer if Fernando says he was kidding about his statement that there is no speed limit along EDSA, but the MMDA chairman replied, "I'm not kidding."

Earlier, the opposition solon also grilled Fernando on other rules that the MMDA chairman supposedly violated, particularly in connection to the MMDA tarpaulins strewn across Metro Manila highways.

Citing MMDA Regulation 04-004 signed by Fernando on Sept. 2, 2004, Golez pointed out that it was unlawful for any person or corporation to install or display billboards along major thoroughfares and other roads without the approval of the MMDA and permits from local government units (LGUs) concerned.

He then questioned the MMDA chairman if he is violating the regulation which he himself signed.

Fernando defended the posting of the MMDA tarpaulins, which carry his image, by saying they are posted on national highways that LGUs "understand" to be under MMDA jurisdiction.

"These are on national highways which are under our jurisdiction," said Fernando. "We have an understanding with LGUs that national highways are under MMDA."

"Somehow I have administrative prerogatives," the MMDA chairman added.

wow pare! ang babaw! ok sabihin natin pwede kang maglagay ng billboard...why the fuck mukha mo pa!? eh halatang pang election.

Fernando, who had publicly announced his intention to run as president in the 2010 elections, also said there is nothing political about the tarpaulins, which bear road safety reminders, except "perhaps my picture."

The subcommittee hearing on the MMDA's proposed budget was almost deferred at the very beginning of the hearing when, upon the inquiry of Golez, Fernando admitted that the MMDA 2009 budget proposal has not been approved by the Metro Manila Council and that this has been the "practice" for a long time.

Golez had earlier pointed out that under Republic Act 7924 or "An Act Creating the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority," the MMDA must first secure the Metro Manila Council's approval of the proposed budget before presenting it to Congress.

The opposition lawmaker conceded to hearing the budget, however, after Fernando assured that they would give their "best effort" to obtain the approval of the Metro Manila Council before the plenary hearings on the 2009 budget.

The Department of Budget and Management has allotted P1.79 billion for the MMDA's 2009 budget, only about one-fourth the P5.9 budget being requested by the MMDA. - GMANews.TV

laki ng budget ah... pero kagabi ang lakas ng ulan. binaha nanaman ang metro manila. sabi ni bf hindi na daw babaha sa metro manila ngayon taon.

http://mgasidecommentsko.blogspot.com/2008/08/no-more-floods-in-metro-manila-next.html

ang tanong... san napunta yung pera para sa flood prevention ngayon taon?