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

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

Bayani Fernando Exposed

Tah da! buking!

hephephep.... Innocent until proven guilty. Kaso. But. Ngunit. Subalit. Datapwat. sa Pilipinas you are guilty until proven innocent. sad but true


Omerta: Graft cases vs Fernando
Written by Butch del Castillo
Monday, 08 December 2008 21:19


When President Arroyo appointed former Marikina Mayor Bayani S. Fernando chairman of the Metro Manila Development Authority (MMDA) on June 14, 2002, she said in her announcement: “When I called Bayani, I said, `BF, what you did for Marikina, you must do for the whole country.’”

akala ko ba metro manila lang?

That statement seemed odd at the time, considering that Metro Manila is definitely not “the rest of the country.” What she meant by that statement became clear only about six months later when she appointed him public works and highways secretary (on a concurrent capacity) on January 9, 2008.

Apparently, the President—impressed by his accomplishments as Marikina mayor—had high hopes that Fernando, an engineer, would be able to work his magic on a nationwide scale. Thus, she gave him the public works portfolio in addition to his assignment as MMDA chairman.

take note BF is a mechanical engineer doing civil engineering project

(As subsequent events would show, it did not take long before he had to relinquish the much-coveted Cabinet job. For reasons the public has not been able to divine, Fernando seems perfectly at home in his multibillion peso fiefdom that the MMDA is.)

Nobody, of course, could fault the President for openly admiring Fernando, who had racked up quite an impressive pile of accolades for himself and Marikina during his stint as Marikina mayor. After all, the residents of Marikina themselves seemed quite satisfied with him. They elected him mayor for three straight terms from 1992 to 2001. They also elected in his place as mayor his wife, Maria Lourdes C. Fernando, when he had reached the three-term limit set by law.

Hindi lahat bumoto kay BF at sa asawa nya. ang tawag ko sa kanila... well informed voters at hindi nalokong botante

In 1994, Marikina was adjudged best local government unit in the National Capital Region. The other major accolades the city got under his leadership included the following: Best Local Government Unit in the Philippines, by the National Heritage Award (Pamana ng Lahi) in 1995; Most Outstanding City in 1997; and Best Managed City 1999.

But to several people who have had the chance to observe him closely or deal with him and the city government of Marikina, Fernando is hardly the paragon of virtue and excellence in public service that he paints himself to be.

see i told you

At the Office of the Ombudsman are several graft and administrative cases filed against him and practically the entire city council for irregularities involving hundreds of millions of pesos worth of contracts for infrastructure projects, and purchases of materials and equipment.

where there is smoke there is flame... este fire! hahaha

In two two separate cases, complainants Teodolfo T. Macarilao and Dominador M. Domingo have cited Fernando for alleged irregularities in connection with the award of four contracts for the construction of school buildings in various barangays. These projects were allegedly awarded to different contractors in violation of the Article 1B 10.4.1 of the implementing rules and regulations of Presidential Decree 1594.

Fernando also hired a consultant unnecessarily in connection with the construction of Marikina’s Hall of Justice and the City Jail building.


Complainants Oscar L. Reyes and Estrellita Regellana, in another case, denounced Fernando and other Marikina key officials for alleged irregularities in connection with two contracts, one amounting to P31.65 million for the construction of a three-story, 36-room classroom school building in Fortune Parang Parang; and the other one, which was worth P59.6 million, for the construction of the justice and jail buildings.

In a separate case, complainants Mario F. Fontanilla Sr. and Edmundo B. Mission denounced irregularities in three city construction projects in different barangays “with a total project cost of P96 million, disclosed deficiencies totaling P5.737 million, including liquidated damages not imposed.”

In this case, which implicated city engineer Alfonso P. Espiritu; Melvin A. Cruz, city administrator; and Councilor Larry Punzalan, just to name a few, statements of work accomplished and certifications of completion and acceptance were all falsified.

In another case, complainants Romulo G. Borja and Arcangel L. de la Paz, denounced Fernando and several others in the city government for alleged irregularities in the procurement of some P5 million worth of “various deformed bars.” The procured bars were not subjected to material testing as required by Commission on Audit rules. The purchase was overpriced, as borne out by test results of samples taken from the City Central Warehouse.

Complainants Macarilao and Domingo filed yet another case with the Ombudsman against Fernando for irregularities in the purchase of P19.99 million worth of personalized notebooks and P1.99 million worth of schoolbags. These items were allegedly paid for with funds taken from the city’s Special Education Fund (SEF), which is not allowed, and therefore illegal. The schoolbags were also found overpriced.

Complainant Alberto S. Lamayo, president of the Federation of Marikina Public Schools Parents and Teachers Associations, also denounced Mayor Bayani F. Fernando in connection with a P100 million loan taken out by the city from the Philippine Veterans Bank. By deducting P25 million a year from the SEF to amortize the loan for five consecutive years, Fernando allegedly violated sections 272 and 100 of Republic Act 7160, the Local Government Code, governing the utilization of the fund, as well as the creation of indebtedness by the city as provided for in sections 296 and 313 of the same Code.

These specific cases are among those that have gathered dust at the Office of Ombudsman since 2001. They are apart from the cases involving irregularities “in community mortgage programs in Marikina City” that have also been filed with the Ombudsman and are still awaiting resolution. It is in the mortgage programs case that Fernando’s wife, Mayor Maria Lourdes C. Fernando, is also named along with dozens of respondents, including key officials of the city government.

The criminal cases of graft are apart from the administrative cases for grave misconduct and abuse of authority that the respondents are facing.

We can only surmise that these cases have not been allowed to prosper because Fernando, until now, seems to be doing well—in the eyes of the Arroyo administration. Nowadays, it seems, it doesn’t matter what the public may think about the MMDA chairman. What only matters is what GMA thinks about him.

ano ba meron itong si BF kay GMA at ganon ka lakas. hmmm... ?

More and more people are coming out to denounce Fernando, just like the ones who sent me the above-mentioned Ombudsman cases. We will try to accommodate as much of their inputs as this column can possibly allow.

ang dami no? I'm sure hindi lang ito ang mga kaso ni BF

http://www.businessmirror.com.ph/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3054:omerta-graft-cases-vs-fernando-&catid=28:opinion&Itemid=64


PS: nagoogle ko ito
http://bayanifernandox.tripod.com/baho/baho.html

luma na siya. karamihan dead links. hahaha

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

Aswang sa Libingan

Marikina Loyola Memorial Park

more pictures here 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

Empty talk from Bayani Fernando

Fernando sidetracks Golez’s tirade aimed at discrediting him

10/09/2008

Instead of reacting to Parañaque Rep. Roilo Golez’s tirade that he would just be a nuisance candidate in 2010 presidential elections, Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) Chairman Bayani Fernando yesterday simply sidestepped it.

He said the attack on him is just part of a series of calculated media campaigns designed to discredit him because the evolution of Metro Manila into a vibrant and livable metropolis by 2010 is now well within sight.

Teka... mabasa nga uli... "the attack on him is just part of a series of calculated media campaigns designed to discredit him because the evolution of Metro Manila into a vibrant and livable metropolis by 2010 is now well within sight." ...bakit ang mga trapo kung binabatikos o na pupuna eh palaging sinisisi ang media. vibrant naman ang metro manila. hirap kasi sa mga mayayaman at mga politiko eh hindi marunong makisalamuha sa masa. o sige nga sabihin na natin malinis ang mga bangketa... wala naman trabahong marangal ang mga taong pinalayas mo.

Fernando disclosed that the initial phase of the comprehensive program of the MMDA to transform Metro Manila into a decent, orderly and disciplined metropolis which he described as “Metro Gwapito” will be achieved by the end of 2008.

pustahan tayo magpapalabas ng isa pang self serving statement yan si BF by January 2009 na natupad na ang kanyang mga plano. sabi noong 2007 na hindi na babaha sa metro manila ngayong 2008. ano nangyari? well alam na yan ng mga taga metro manila..

He said the program will succeed towards its completion by 2010 if the development programs now being carried out by the agency will be supported by the majority of the more than 12 million people who currently populate the National Capital Region.

The MMDA chief added there is now a high awareness level among the residents of Metro Manila on the mission and objectives of the MMDA and that is to instill order and discipline in the metropolis that will in the long run be beneficial to the people living in it.

yes! the mission of the MMDA is to get Bayani Fernando elected as president of the Philippines. NOT GONNA HAPPEN!!!

“The choice is just between wallowing in misery and decrepit environment and a community that is clean, sanitary, orderly, environment-friendly and therefore livable,” Fernando said.

“What the MMDA is doing to turn Metro Manila into a showcase of urbanization is not for us,” Bayani explained, “but it is for the people of the metropolis because a livable community such as what we envision will restore the dignity and pride of the citizens of the metropolis, especially the so-called marginalized, including the thousands of families living in squatter colonies in the 2nd district of Paranaque City.

How can a community or society trive if majority is jobless?

A totally transformed Metro Manila which Fernando dubs “Metro Gwapo” is being envisioned to be completed by 2010.

Parang nicho... malinis at maputi sa labas pero bulok at madumi sa loob.

Fernando said by that time, order and discipline, especially in the use of roadways and sidewalks, shall have been restored throughout the metropolis.

He stressed with the measures that are now in place, major thoroughfares will be rid of sidewalk vendors and the people will have an unhampered use of sidewalks which belong to them in the first place.

He said the traffic situation will have vastly improved and informal settlers that clog the waterways and esteros will have been dismantled and relocated by 2010 to help minimize the occurrence of flash floods during a heavy downpour.

Talaga lang ha? Neknek mo!

He stressed there is no longer a need to answer the verbal attacks of Golez, saying this will only distract him from pursuing his vision to transform Metro Manila into a livable community the way he has transformed Marikina City into what it is now.

verbal attacks of Golez will only distract him from pursuing his personal ambitions

He also pointed out that the MMDA must be doing something right as it is now generating as much interest from Golez.

Lintek ang babaw... sa psychology... you are what you think and what you say. sinanasabi ba ni BF na naiingit si Golez sa kanya? trabaho ng congress at senate, eh to check the executive branch. MMDA part ng executive branch. talagang mapapansin ang MMDA, eh ang daming posters si BF sa Metro Manila at iba pang bahagi ng bansa.

“The choice we have to make is really easy. Gusto ba natin ng kaayusan upang tayo ay umunlad o nais nating panatailihin ang magulong pamayanan,” Fernando said.

However, Golez belittled Fernando’s Metro Gwapito program, saying it is nothing but another of the MMDA chairman’s jargons.

“Nothing but empty talk. How would he make Metro Manila livable? By painting the entire metropolis pink?”

Ayos!

Golez also refuted the statement of Lakas official Ed Malay who said the Parañaque solon is in no position to claim that no Lakas member is taking Fernando seriously.

In a text message, Malay, a known ally of former President Fidel Ramos, chastised Golez for issuing statements as if he is speaking in behalf of Lakas.

“Rep. Golez can’t say (Chairman) Fernando is not taken seriously by his partymates in Lakas. How would he know that?” Malay said in his text message.

“He should not speak of our party since he doesn’t know what’s going on within us. Talking to two or three Lakas solons does not represent the sentiments of the entire party.”

But Golez answered Malay, saying he is, in fact, in a better position to pulse the sentiments of solons identified with Lakas.

“Contrary to his claims, I am in a better position to know the sentiments of Lakas congressmen. I am with them every session day and only one congressman has spoken positively of Fernando,” Golez said, adding

“I would rather not mention the unkind remarks.”

Teka isa lang? eh dalawa ang congressman ng Marikina City ah? pareho pang Lakas

Charlie V. Manalo

http://www.tribune.net.ph/metro/20081009met2.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.

Nuisance candidate

Nuisance - one that is annoying, unpleasant, or obnoxious

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nuisance

Bayani Fernando nuisance candidate
1. annoying - check!
2. unpleasant - check!
3. obnoxious - check!

Wow! triple whammy ka bayani!

Bayani a nuisance bet in 2010 — Golez

http://www.tribune.net.ph/metro/20081007met1.html

10/07/2008

Parañaque Rep. Roilo Golez sees Metro Manila Development Authority (MMDA) Chairman Bayani Fernando as just another nuisance candidate in the 2010 national elections.

Yehey! kasama na ni chairman si Ely Pamatong at Eddie Gil!!!

dapat mag form sila ng partido. PH. parang Philippines... hindi Partido ng mga Hibang

“He doesn’t even rank in the top 10 presidentiables. No one is taking him seriously, not even his partymates,” said Golez in an interview, adding the MMDA chief was “a laughing stock in Philippine politics.”

“His rating, after almost a year of tarpaulins, stickers, pink paint and provincial sorties, is zero,” Golez averred. “His name has not appeared in any survey. He is even outside the top 24 in a senatorial survey I saw. He is sabotaging his bid with his shameless politicking using government funds.”

baka maling survey yung tinitingnan ni golez. nasa top clowns of the philippines si bayani fernando.

Golez added Fernando had made enemies with almost all agencies including the Department of Public Works and Highways, the Department of Transportation and Communications and all Metro Manila mayors.

“He has only one ally-mayor in Metro Manila, the mayor of Marikina City,” he said referring to Mayor Marides Fernando, who is the MMDA’s chairman’s wife.

Golez made the remark in reaction to Fernando’s earlier statement that the solon was embarking on a demolition job against him (Fernando) as he (Golez) is “most probably working for someone else, probably an opposition presidential candidate.”

praning ka bayani

“How could he accuse me of such when I am an independent lawmaker? I don’t belong to any political party,” Golez retorted.

“Maybe the visual pollution he has created has already taken its toll on his mind,” Golez said referring to the Fernando tarpaulins all over the metropolis.

baka naman sumisinghot ng tarpaulin ink ito si bayani kaya ganyan na pag iisip nya.

Fernando said he is working 24/7 five days a week for Metro Manila and goes on provincial sorties only on weekends. However, Golez said Fernando’s provincial sorties are illegal as he is using MMDA funds.

Charlie V. Manalo