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

Parang kailan lang...

Dahil Sa'yo...
Ferdinand and Imelda on their wedding day, 1954





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Wowowee panalo ang marami
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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.

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

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?

All the chairman's men

ok hindi lahat. yung mga nasa baba ng food chain.

Golez: BF `di mananalo sa MMDA employees
(Nilo Marasigan)

http://www.abante-tonite.com/issue/sep1408/news_story3.htm


Kahit magpa-survey sa sariling bakuran ay lalabas na talo pa rin umano si Metro Manila Development Authority (MMDA) chairman Bayani Fernando dahil sa inaayawan ito mismo ng mga sariling empleyado.
Ito ang ipinukol na pang-aalaska kahapon ng numero unong kritiko ni Fernando na si House deputy minority leader at Parañaque Rep. Roilo Golez sa pangungulelat ng MMDA chief sa ika-32 puwesto sa kabuuang 45 personalidad ng senatoriables na isinailalim sa survey ng Social Weather Station (SWS) para sa 2010 elections.
“Kahit sa loob ng MMDA, matatalo siya. Masuwerte kung makakuha siya ng 10% sa mga employees ng MMDA,” pambubuska pa ng kongresista.

hmmm..bakit kaya?

Magugunitang sa isinagawang survey sa mga presidentiables kamakailan, ni hindi nakakuha ng anumang boto si Fernando sa kabila ng maagang pagdedeklara ng ambisyong maging kandidatong pangulo sa susunod na halalan.
Patuloy naman ang ginagawang pagbira ni Golez kay Fernando sa hinalang ginagamit na umano ng huli ang pondo ng pinamumunuang ahensya para lamang maisulong ang kanyang political agenda.


hahaha LMAO.... thank you Bert for sending this story.

hmmm... bakit kaya matatalo si BF sa sariling bakuran...hmmm




http://www.manilatimes.net/national/2007/jan/25/yehey/metro/20070125met8.html

Uniforms overpriced, metro aides complain

By Jefferson Antiporda, Reporter

Street sweepers from the Metro Manila Development Authority are considering filling a graft case against officials of the agency involved in the procurement of allegedly overpriced uniforms.

Some 3,000 street sweepers or metro aides, who are members of the MMDA employees’ union, Sakamay, claim that the uniforms are not only overpriced but are of poor quality.

They refused to accept the uniforms until the MMDA management acted on their complaint.

The MMDA officials “claimed that they have taken into account our complaints about the uniforms they would be distributing to us... but they have pushed through with it, disregarding our questions on the quality of the gear,” said Luisa Estacion, Sakamay secretary-general.

Estacion said some of the equipment like rubber boots, thongs, raincoats and belt pouch are regularly issued to metro aides and should not be deducted from their P4,000 annual clothing allowance.

Estacion also questioned why jogging pants were issued to the sweepers instead of regular pants.

She said the sweepers’ clothing allowance used to include a long-sleeved, collared shirt and pants. Now the agency gives them garterized jogging pants, an ordinary shirt and an armband.

She also said that the clothing issued to them only costs P3,202, P798 short of the P4,000 annual clothing budget.

The MMDA started distributing new uniforms to its personnel last January 15. Only the street sweepers’ group refused to accept the uniforms.

The group also said the contractor who made the uniforms was endorsed by one of Chairman Bayani Fernando’s consultants.

Edison Fainsan, the MMDA general manager for finance, dismissed the claims of the group and said that the procurement of uniforms went through the regular process and competitive bidding.

“We are willing to open our books in order to prove that there’s no irregularity in the procurement of the new uniforms and that it was made in a very transparent process,” Fainsan said in an interview



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Ombudsman asked to file charges vs MMDA chief

By Maila Ager
INQUIRER.net
First Posted 14:26:00 04/30/2008

MANILA, Philippines -- The filing of appropriate charges before the Office of the Ombudsman against Metro Manila Development Authority (MMDA) chairman Bayani Fernando has been formally sought by a lawmaker at the House of Representatives.

Deputy Minority Floor Leader Roilo Golez, in a letter to Ombudsman Ma. Merceditas Gutierrez, requested an “investigation of and the filing of appropriate charges, if warranted” against Fernando for alleged misuse of funds and other irregularities.

Golez cited the alleged non-payment of clothing allowance of MMDA employees for two years, destruction of government property with the “dangerous and unsightly” three-lane U-turn slots, violation of the MMDA regulation on billboard and advertising signs, and alleged expensive trips here and abroad purportedly to improve the performance of his office.

Golez cited the “massive tarpaulin campaign” of the MMDA featuring the giant photos of its chairman and the installation of pink traffic signs purportedly in preparation for 2010.

The MMDA chief has openly declared his intention to run for president in 2010.

“The MMDA chairman has misappropriated the color pink for non-civil defense purposes, thus jeopardizing future civil defense activities,”
Golez said.

“It is public knowledge that pink is the political color of the Mayor of Marikina, the wife of the MMDA chairman, and is therefore for the chairman’s personal political ends and not for the public interest,” he said.

The cost of uglifying Metro Manila

Tarpaulin printing = 30 pesos / sq-ft (average price in ebay.ph and sulit.com.ph)
Size of largest Bayani Fernando MMDA poster/billboard = 12 feet by 5 feet (Rough estimate lang)

12 feet x 5 feet = 60 sq-ft
30 pesos/sq-ft x 60 sq-ft = 1800 pesos

number of Bayani Fernando/MMDA posters = 1000 (estimate lang po yan.)
1800 pesos x 1000 = 1,800,000 pesos

1.8 million pesos para lang dito!


yung malaki lang yan. hindi pa kasama yung mga maliliit na posters.

Bayani Fernando and the Urban Poor

In Public Lives by Randy David
Philippine Daily Inquirer, 1 September 2007

http://opinion.inquirer.net/inquireropinion/columns/view_article.php?article_id=85966

MANILA, Philippines — If there is one public official in our country today who does his work seemingly without regard for the political consequences, that person has to be Bayani Fernando, the current chair of the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA). In a just society, he would be a model public servant. But in our kind of society, he can only be the blind, uncaring agent of the powerful.

BF, as he is popularly known, is ironically, for the same reason, the modern Metro Manilan’s folk hero. For the city’s most persistent problems –illegal encroachment on public space, traffic gridlocks, rampant criminality, flooding, urban blight, etc. — he finds solutions that are, at one and the same time, capricious and ingenious, impulsive and experimental, outlandish and generally effective. The upper and middle classes hail him as modernity’s champion, and think of him as the kind of president we need. But I doubt that he will ever win an election outside of Marikina City, where he was mayor for many years.

For BF is also possibly the Filipino poor’s most hated figure. This is understandable. To him belongs the unenviable job of dealing with all the illegal improvisations that make up the typical life of those who are forced to spend the greater part of their time trying to survive. BF is right in the frontline of the class conflict that rages daily in our divided society. And he is staunchly on the side of power.

While his political bosses may pay lip service to the needs of the poor even as their policies systematically oppress them, BF has no choice but to face the poor as if they were a perpetual nuisance, in accordance with his assigned role as the hatchet man of an unjust property system.

In this capacity, he must remain blind to the larger societal context of the problems he is assigned to fix. He cannot propose long-term solutions that touch on the structural inequalities from which flow all the problematic outcomes of mass poverty. He is effective precisely because he treats the symptoms, and remains unmindful of the profound social illness that produces them. In countless media appearances, BF speaks of the problems of the city in such folksy commonsensical terms that he leaves you wondering how someone like him can be so insensitive in his dealings with the poor. You expect this lack of empathy to come from a disengaged technocrat who cannot see beyond his theory. It is shocking to find it in a practical man like BF who has lived among the masses. Is it possible that he thinks he knows the poor so well that he actually believes there is no way of dealing with them except by acts of toughness?

A few years ago, he stopped illegal vendors from plying their trade on sidewalks by ordering his men to spray kerosene on the goods they were selling. In this manner, he reasoned, there is no way they can recover their investments. He confiscated their carts, and detained those who persisted in occupying the sidewalks.

The other day, I heard him on radio talking about the demolition of shanties along “esteros” [creeks] and under bridges that impede the flow of rain water and cause flash floods. Asked if there were relocation sites to which the affected families could be transferred, BF had a ready reply: “We cannot reward these lawbreakers by giving them homes.” He wants to send them back to the provinces where they came from. One might wonder where such attitude is coming from. But in fact it is a sentiment that is silently held by many Filipinos who do not have to live dangerously along river banks or pitch their shanties inside cemeteries.

It is difficult not to appreciate BF’s stubborn ideas about how to make the city livable. To him it is all a matter of teaching people how to live in a modern society. There is a lot of truth in this, but it is not the whole story. It omits the one crucial element that determines the character of most of our social problems as a nation: mass poverty.

You cannot have a well-ordered city if nearly one-half of your residents have no regular jobs, no decent homes, and no bright future to look forward to no matter how hard they try. Law-abiding citizens will not thrive in a society in which the very structure of opportunity has collapsed for the many. They will be forced to improvise in order to survive. They will put up their homes wherever they can so they can be close to schools, hospitals and places of work.

You cannot tell people constantly on the verge of starvation to stay away from garbage heaps. You cannot tell them that scavenging is an unworthy way to earn a living. You have to show them that a better way is within their reach. BF knows this. He was irked by the sight of grown men stopping in the middle of the streets to urinate behind the doors of their taxis or on the tires of their jeepneys. He tried shaming them for acting like stray animals, but to no avail. What finally put a stop to this uncivilized habit were the pink urinals he put up on Metro Manila’s sidewalks. If you build public toilets, people will relieve themselves decently. If you build them proper homes, they will voluntarily leave the esteros.

People in general are not unreasonable. They may stall, negotiate and try to assert the primacy of their interest — but such behavior is pretty much distributed across social classes. Poverty is certainly no excuse for recalcitrance. But even under a rule of law, the MMDA’s forcible demolition of poor people’s shanties, leaving them without a roof over their heads, constitutes an unspeakable atrocity.

AMEN!

Flash floods hit Metro Manila; students and commuters stranded

Kasama ako sa mga na stranded kagabi. ngayon ang lakas na naman ng ulan. sigurado baha na naman.

http://www.gmanews.tv/story/118942/Flash-floods-hit-Metro-Manila-students-and-commuters-stranded

MANILA, Philippines - Flash floods brought by heavy rains turned parts of Metro Manila into a waterworld again Monday night, leaving many commuters and students stranded.

In Manila, floods were gutter- or ankle-deep in several key roads, even as traffic aides and policemen were again absent from their posts.

Many students were forced to walk in the rain, their umbrellas not enough to protect them.

Pedicabs and passenger jeeps ignored traffic rules as they picked up passengers at will.

Traffic was similarly heavy in Pasig City and other parts of eastern Metro Manila.

In Quezon City, dzBB radio's Manny Vargas reported floods in the Cubao and Kamuning areas.

Along Commonwealth Avenue and Epifanio delos Santos Avenue (Edsa), several passengers were similarly stranded while traffic was snarled due to the rains and flash floods. - GMANews.TV

hello Bayani Fernando ano nangyari sa flood control program mo? sabi mo hindi na babaha sa metro manila ngayong taon

MMDA and DPWH

Galing talaga ni Chairman
Do you want a president like this creature?

http://www.gmanews.tv/story/87352/MMDA-DPWH-rift-cancels-project

MMDA, DPWH rift cancels project


The National Economic and Development Authority in 2000 approved the P1.98 billion Metro Manila Interchange Construction Project Phase 5, which was expected to help alleviate the metro's traffic problem.

Disagreements between the Metro Manila Development Authority and the Department of Public Works and Highways over the design, however, delayed the project's implementation and eventually led to its cancellation.

http://www.gmanews.tv/story/88939/Experts-criticize-MMDAs-Arroyo-approved-elevated-u-turn

Experts criticize MMDA's Arroyo-approved elevated u-turn

In the DPWH-MMDA rift over the P1.98 billion Metro Manila Interchange Construction Project, President Arroyo favored MMDA's proposed elevated u-turn. Experts question the safety of the project, which was approved without a feasibility study, while MMDA defends it.






A statement from the experts and fellow engineers

http://www.pice.org.ph/Statement%20PICE-U%20Turn.pdf

Statement from the Philippine Institute of Civil Engineers
The Philippines is falling behind most of its Asian neighbors due to its poor
infrastructure. Hence, the attempt of the present administration to increase (the
historically-low) investments in infrastructure – in the transport sector, more specifically
- is to be lauded.
But spending for poorly-conceived, mediocre, and ill-designed projects will only
increase the number of poor infrastructure, rather than raise our country’s
competitiveness. The construction of elevated U-Turns in Metro Manila belongs to that
genre. Instead of building world-class structure, the MMDA is spending hundred of
millions of pesos on a structure that violate national and international highway
standards.
Perhaps, the original plan for the intersection may have been over-designed. In the
world of professional practice, the same issue can only be resolved through Peer
Review, and not by sheer “political will.” An “over-designed” structure is more tolerable
in the long run than an ‘under-designed” one. Also, a peer review process would have
shown that the construction cost of a straight viaduct is lower than a curved one, for
the same length and number of lanes, aside from having a lesser number of traffic
hazards. Strangely and unfortunately, in this case, there is also no duly-licensed “Peer”
to talk about.
The objective of grade separation at major intersections is to achieve maximum road
capacity (or passenger throughput) per lane. Gaining “pogi points” is not an explicit
objective in building of transport infrastructure. This can not be achieved by the
elevated U-Turn scheme for two basic reasons: (a) a roundabout way can never be
shorter or faster than a straight line from point A to point B, (b) the potential conflict
points between vehicular movements have not been reduced. The high-volume
through-traffic get intermixed with local, low-volume, slower-speed, and left-turningtraffic;
thus, reducing the overall flow to the least common denominator – especially
severe during peak hours. Vehicles can only be as fast as the slowest ones in front of
them.
Bragging that the structure is the first of its kind in the world may be a cause of pride
for its proponent. It is, however, a cause of shame for Filipino civil engineers who are
supposed to be responsible, by law, for this kind of structure but were not involved in
the first place. A mediocre design that ignores fundamental rules of road safety is not
something Filipino civil engineers (as it would be wrongly ascribed to the profession as
a whole) – or for that matter, patriotic Filipinos - can be proud. Neither is it the path to
progress.
The Philippines can only move into the faster lane of development and progress – if it
builds the right infrastructure in the right way and under the exacting yardstick of
globally-accepted engineering standards.

MMDA’s Claim of Cleaner Air, Pure Air – Environmentalists

image from http://nicolevelazco.blogspot.com/

BY BULATLAT
September 1, 2008 - 6:21 p.m.

http://www.bulatlat.com/2008/09/mmdas-claim-cleaner-air-pure-air-environmentalists-0

An activist environmental group is not convinced at all in the Metro Manila Development Authority's (MMDA) claim of cleaner air. Clemente Bautista, national coordinator of the Kalikasan People's Network for the Environment (KPNE) branded MMDA Chairman Bayani Fernando's claim as pure air.

Hahaha! LOL Busted!!! buking hahaha

Fernando declared that there was a 50-percent drop in the air pollution level of Metro Manila due to the massive sweeping and vacuuming of roadways initiated by the MMDA.

Bautista said, "Maybe the ever-arrogant Chairman is hallucinating from the polluted air he breathed in EDSA or just campaigning for 2010."

no he is hallucinating from the smell of his pink urinals

The group pointed out that they found no scientific study or data showing that air pollution levels in Metro Manila have dropped. "There is no recent air quality status report, which just goes to show that clean air monitoring in the country is ineffective," said Bautista.

The KPNE said that even the technical paper published by the World Bank concluded that average Total Suspended Particulate (TSP) concentrations of Metro Manila are frequently five times higher than the World Health Organization Air Quality Guidelines. Higher than standard TSP means higher pollution. TSP is used to measure particulate matter (PM) present in air. PM is the generic term used for a type of air pollution that consists of complex and varying mixtures of particles suspended in the air.

come on BF. kahit mga mmda truck mo eh smoke belchers.

Based on the weekly Ambient Air Quality Monitoring of EMB, Pasay, Makati, Valenzuela are among the areas that usually exceed the standard 230ug/Ncm for TSP.

Bautista further said, "Manila itself is known to be one the most polluted areas in the Philippines. The areas of Pasay and EDSA, which Mr. Fernando claims to have significantly improved are still among the most polluted areas in Metro Manila in terms of amount of TSP. Now, he wants people to believe that air quality has improved because of his mechanized street sweeping? No sane person would buy that claim," declared Bautista.

Last year, the joint report of Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) and World Bank showed there were nearly 4,968 premature deaths each year in Manila due to respiratory and cardiovascular diseases from exposure to poor air quality.

Bautista said, "Mr. Fernando can weave all the tales that he wants but experience and facts tell us that the problem of air pollution, or any environmental issue, has not been resolved. What the government is doing are only palliative measures. The policies and programs of the government do not address the root causes of pollution, much less of environmental degradation in the country." Bulatlat

BF will do and tell anything....tsk tsk tsk. will you vote for a person like this as president of the philippines?

other side comments here

Fernando will run for president with or with Lakas support

Fernando to run for prexy sans Lakas support

09/07/2008 | 01:45 PM

http://www.gmanews.tv/story/118727/Fernando-to-run-for-prexy-sans-Lakas-support

MANILA, Philippines - Bayani Fernando of the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) will run for president in the 2010 elections with or without the support of Lakas-Christian Muslim Democrats (Lakas-CMD).

Why? bakit ba talagang gustong tumakbo ni BF as president? at napaka desperado nyang maging presidente?

In a report over dzBB radio, Fernando was quoted as saying that he will pursue his political ambitions even if the Lakas-CMD would refuse to pick him as the administration’s standard bearer.

Fernando, a former mayor of Marikina City, also reportedly said that should Lakas ignore his presidential bid he will be forced to leave the party and form his own political party.

wow kapal! feeling... san kukuha ng pera si BF para sa election. eh

Earlier reports said Lakas is wooing Vice President Noli de Castro to be the party’s presidential bet in the 2010 elections.

Fernando shrugged off his current poor ratings from the people, saying Lakas has the power to make those ratings favorable towards him.

kung mataas ang rating sa survey ok lang...dedma. sasabihin na totoo yang survey na yon. pero kung kulelat eh magpapalusot. hoy BF kaya ka kulelat kasi kitang kita ng mga tao sa buong pilipinas ang ginagawa mong pag aapi sa mga mahihirap at yung mga gimik mo na kalokohan.

Meanwhile, Fernando’s wife, Marikina City Mayor Maria Lourdes Fernando, said she will no longer seek political post in 2010 and would just dedicate her time to support her husband’s election. - Aie Balagtas See, GMANews.TV

i bet tatakbo for mayor ay yung babaeng anak nila na 28 years old pa lang.

Pacquiao joins GMA’s party: as party bouncer

Pacquiao joins GMA’s party

By Jaime Pilapil

http://www.manilastandardtoday.com/?page=sports1_sept2_2008

BOXING icon Manny Pacquiao yesterday was sworn in as a member of Kabalikat ng Malayang Pilipino at Interior Secretary Ronaldo Puno’s office at Camp Crame.

Pacquiao is reportedly interested to run for a congressional seat either in General Santos City or in nearby Sarangani Province. He ran and lost for the 2007 congressional post opposite Darlene Antonino Custodio, who is now on her third and last term.

Puno is Kampi’s chairman while Pacquiao is currently the World Boxing Coucil lightweight champion slated to fight Oscar de la Hoya on Dec. 6 at MGM Grand Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Interviewed by reporters, Pacquiao said he might retire from professional boxing next year or two fights after the Dec. 6 bout with the Golden Boy.

Pacquiao reportedly spent a whopping P100 million in his first bid for an elective post. With no less than P1 billion he would get from fighting De la Hoya, the four-weight division champion will have the most important arsenal in 2010 elections.

pera lang ni pacquiao ang habol ng mga lintek na buwaya. hindi pa nga nananalo sa laban umaaligid na ang mga hinayupak.

Kampi is a political party founded by then Senator Gloria Macapagal Arroyo in late 1990s in preparation for her presidential bid.

Asked why he joined Kampi, he said: “I would like to show to Filipinos that I could be champion when it comes to helping our countrymen. Ang pagpasok ko sa pulitika ay para ipakita na champion din ako sa pagtulong sa ating mga kababayan.”

orangejuicekopo! madami ka pang matutulunggan kung wala ka sa politika. masyado na bang lamog yang utak mo manny?

Puno said Pacquiao is a “plus factor” to the ranks of Kampi and would prove to be a big influence in convincing Filipinos in Mindanao, especially in South Cotabato, to abandon violence and trust ongoing government efforts to bring just and lasting peace in the island.

“Napapanahon ang pagsali ni Manny sa Kampi lalo na ngayon at may problema tayo sa Mindanao. Palagay ko ay malaki ang kanyang maitutulong, lalo na para sa South Cotabato, para matahimik ang Mindanao ,” Puno said. “Alam naman natin na mataas ang pagtingin ng ating mga kababayan kay Manny.”

the master bullshit aristist has spoken

Kampi, the second largest political party in the country, has for its members 55 congressmen, 15 governors and thousands of other local chief executives in vote-rich areas nationwide.

not for long

Also present during the oath-taking were presidential son, Rep. Juan Miguel “Mikey” Arroyo of the Second District of Pampanga; Representatives Trisha Bonoan-David, Fourth District of Manila; Albert Garcia of the Second District of Bataan; Rodolfo Albano III of the First District of Isabela; and Antonio Alvarez of the First District of Palawan.

mga buwaya

Puno said that Kampi is now discussing plans with Pacquiao on whether he should run either as congressman or for any other local government post in Mindanao come the 2010 elections. Puno noted that Pacquiao could run for senator and win handily in 2010, but the prizefighter is only 30 years old, making him ineligible for the post. Thirty-five is the minimum age requirement for senatorial candidates.

sus kahit bouncer ok lang basta manny basta makuha namin yung pera mo. uto uto ka talaga manny

Kampi, Puno noted, has a strong presence in Central Mindanao, especially in the provinces of South Cotabato and Sarangani. Kampi is presently working double time in its bid to merge with Lakas-CMD.

Mga side comments ko na LOWDOWN

Naykupo! blog ko nasa column ni Jojo Robles
http://www.manilastandardtoday.com/?page=jojoRobles_sept2_2008

wow! salamat po Jojo Robles at yung iba pang bloggers
http://kurkeh.wordpress.com/
http://pindutinmoto.blogspot.com/
http://bambit.kusangpalo.com/

thanks din sa flickr.com, google.com, yahoo.com, at picasaweb.com. kung wala sila hindi ko mahahanap si bayani. hahaha



ito na side comments ko.


Who will stop Bayani?

Jojo Robles
Manila Standard
http://www.manilastandardtoday.com/?page=jojoRobles_sept2_2008

One of my favorite blogs these days is something called “Mga Side Comments Ko” on Blogspot. The site has a map which shows where probably the most thick-faced official of this government has been lately, under the heading “Where in the Philippines is Bayani Fernando?”

Yes!

Clicking on the face of the Metro Kwago (as another blogger calls the owlish-looking chairman of the Metro Manila Development Authority and early-bird presidential candidate) will lead a visitor to the map—which is supported by photographs of places around the country where Fernando has been.

kilala ko yung blogger na yon ah

Bayani’s itinerary has been backbreaking: Ilocos, Zambales, Bulacan, Quezon, Aklan, Iloilo and Davao are some of the locations where the supposed chief traffic aide of the metropolis has been recently. In the photographs, Bayani is shown glad-handing the locals, dancing during their town fiestas, distributing relief goods and generally spreading his luridly pink-and-baby blue largesse throughout the country.

hindi lang photo may video pa hahaha

In nearly all the photographs, Bayani is escorted by official vehicles of the MMDA sporting red government plates —giving the lie to the MMDA chairman’s claim that he is using his own resources to campaign (illegally, it must be added, since he still has not resigned) for the presidency two years before the elections. Even assuming that he is, as he claims, using his own money for the plywood boards and other stuff that he’s donating all over, what about the cranes, trucks and various other vehicles that he’s been using to deliver them?

Amen

Does Bayani own all these vehicles, as well? And does Bayani think that just because he’s doing all these things outside Metro Manila, no one will notice?

Baka naman akala ni BF na 1800's pa at ang takbo ng balita eh kasing bilis ng asong hindi matae. hoy bayani may Internet na po. kitang kita ka na. may video phones pa. so wala kang lusot.

The abuses committed by Bayani Fernando boggle the mind, and yet the man thinks he is being persecuted. To the House of Representatives, for instance, he has replied that he will not appear at a congressional investigation of his activities because the lawmakers who are accusing him of wrongdoing are “politically motivated.”

This is just the latest of Bayani’s transgressions, that of ignoring a Congress summons without even the benefit of an executive gag order from his boss, President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo. Where most government officials would quake in fear of appearing before a congressional investigation, Bayani actually thinks he can get away with this cavalier dismissal of the House invitation on the grounds that his interrogators have a political motive.

kapal talaga. sabi pa ni bayani hindi naman daw nya congressmen yung mga nagpapatawag sa kanya? ano ibigsabihin nya doon? hindi nya ka distrito yung mga congressmen, hindi nya kapartido, hindi nya hawak?

And I guess plastering your sleepy-eyed mug all over the country is not politically motivated—if not outright criminal on so many levels that it would make anyone’s head spin? Who will stop Bayani Fernando from violating nearly every law in the land before he’s through?

Who? si Jojo Robles! Mabuhay! hahaha =) peace tayo ah. hehehe pwede ring Jojo Binay. hahaha

* * *

One of Bayani’s most treasured myths about himself is that he is all about discipline. And yet, given the many and repeated transgressions of the MMDA chairman, you have to wonder who will discipline him.

Bayani has run afoul of the law so many times and yet he is allowed to thumb his nose at anyone who dares cross his path. He can even go on a television talent show and claim that he wants to win because he is raising funds for his election campaign in 2010—and no one even asks anymore if this blatant fund-raising by a sitting government official is illegal or not.

WTF! talaga sinabi nya yon!?! sorry hindi na ako nanonood ng local TV programs. Naiinis lang ako.

He has crossed swords with an entire Cabinet’s worth of government agencies and nearly all of the mayors of Metro Manila (who supposedly are his bosses and funders), and yet he goes on his merry way—disregarding laws, ordinances, human rights and simple courtesy as he barrels his way through with his pink-and-blue army of traffic terrorists, mulcters and bus-jackers, sidewalk-vendor scourges, squatter demolishers and sticker-and-tarpaulin plasterers.

Jojo Robles, ano sa palagay mo at bakit gustong tumakbo ni BF as president of the Republic of the Philippines? Power, pera, attention, para ba maabswelto sa mga kaso?

No one has asked Bayani to present an audit of his expenses, to show which funds are his and not his to spend, and which was spent where and how much. No one has filed charges against Bayani for ordering the illegal confiscation of property in the form of the buses his men take over or the wares of the sidewalk vendors that they grab and never return.

Even the usually quick-on-the-draw human rights groups have not taken up the case of Bayani’s lightning demolition of squatter shanties, nor have they challenged his explanation that it’s not his job to relocate squatters, only to demolish them. No real opposition has been encountered by the government employees who do nothing but put up his tarpaulins and stick his stickers—even if the taxpayers cough up the money for their wages. No official inquiries have been made about his questionable infrastructure projects like the abominable elevated U-turn on C-5 Road or his dangerous (and BF Corp.-fabricated) railings, pedestrian overpasses and the absolutely free gift of a on-off ramp that he gave to the owner of a mall in his home turf of Marikina.

Nobody in authority has really asked why he can declare for the presidency and yet not resign.

Unfortunately, the undeniable effect of letting Bayani do whatever he wants and not forcing him to account for his actions afterward is the breakdown of order, respect for the law and common decency. Ironically for the man who prides himself with a genius for instilling discipline and restoring order, all he’s been doing lately is to show that if you’ve got the power, you can actually get away with anything.

Of course, government officials have been running afoul of the law probably for as long as there’s been a government. But no one in memory has so cavalierly declared himself to be so high above mere legal questions as Bayani Fernando. And the saddest part of it all is, he still has his job.

Maybe, just maybe, somebody will remedy that soon.

Pathetic Bayani Fernando Tshirts

Pathetic talaga itong BF na ito. iniinsulto ang masa. sinira na nga ang kabuhayan mo iinsultuhin ka pa, bibigyan ka ng konswelo de bobong kamiseta. mababa talaga ang tingin ni BF sa mga mahihirap.

Another (self serving) message from your MMDA chairman

Mechanized street sweeper helps improve Metro’s air quality

The Philippine Star

http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/storypage.aspx?StoryId=129696

The Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) said that air quality along Epifanio Delos Santos Avenue (EDSA) is improving because of the agency's continuous dust and litter sweeping and vacuuming operations.

nasaan ang independent/third part study na magpapatunay na nag improve ang air quality sa EDSA

MMDA Chairman Bayani Fernando said air circulating in the major thoroughfare which connects the Northern and Southern parts of Metro Manila is now fresher and cleaner.

Wow! sandali lang ha. bubuksan ko lang bintana ng opisina. along EDSA lang kasi....

ubo ubo ubo... shit! kahit linggo ganon pa rin. mausok at amoy mmda urinal pa rin

He said air quality along C-5, Roxas Boulevard and other major roads in Pasay City has also remarkably improved because carbon dust and other pollutants coming from trees and plants and those emitted by vehicle engines are regularly swept and vacuumed by Roadways Cleaning Operations Group (RCOG) personnel using truck-mounted giant sweeping machines as well as gutter and wall cleaners who work round-the-clock on two shifts.

Fernando reported that since the agency launched its massive cleaning and vacuuming operations initially along EDSA along with the crackdown launched by relevant agencies on carbon gas-emitting vehicles, the air that people breathe in these areas is 50 percent cleaner.

geez i can smell the bullshit

He announced that as soon as the ongoing upgrading of sidewalks along Edsa is completed, the RCOG will start to clean walkways regularly and even at night to brush away much dust from gutters and walls of the main thoroughfare.

"Offhand, I can assure everyone that before the year is over, when our sidewalk upgrading program is done, the entire stretch of sidewalks of Edsa would be walkable and people would shun riding jeepneys and buses for short trips," he said.

RCOG chief Francis Martinez said that apart from Metro aides manually sweeping and tending the plants on the road, seven giant mechanized sweepers, three gutter cleaners and four wall cleaners are out in the streets at the break of dawn to clean and vacuum the major roads until 4 p.m.

The second shift of RCOG personnel, with truck-mounted sweepers and cleaners in tow, takes over at 10 p.m. and works until 6 a.m. to clean and vacuum loading and unloading bays, underpasses and tunnels, Martinez said.

He said the difficult and dirtier job of cleaning the street infrastructure is being done by mechanized sweepers due to the spate of road accidents.

main reason bakit mausok ang metro manila. simple.. mga sasakyan. mas mausok sa mga lugar kung saan may u-turn slot kasi sobrang traffic.

by the way nakita ko ito oh. MMDA truck na smoke blecher. hahaha

Bayani won't go to congress

House to force Fernando to attend hearings

By DELON PORCALLA and RHODINA VILLANUEVA
The Philippine Star

http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/storypage.aspx?StoryId=129761

Two senior House members have filed a resolution that would compel Metro Manila Development Authority Chairman Bayani Fernando to attend hearings after he snubbed a recent Commission on Human Rights (CHR) hearing over MMDA’s cases of alleged unlawful evictions of sidewalk vendors.

Its about time

House Resolution 723, authored by Reps. Roilo Golez of Parañaque and Matias Defensor of Quezon City, directs the committee on human rights to hold hearings on human rights violations of the MMDA and force its chairman to rebut the charges.

Fernando, however, shrugged off reports that the two congressmen filed a resolution to question him on alleged human rights violations committed by the agency against sidewalk vendors.

"The proper venue for that is the court. I will only submit myself to investigation or interrogation only if it will be done through court proceedings," Fernando said in an interview.

Investigation nga ito. wala ka bang alam sa batas? may powers ang congress para tawagin mga opisyal ng executive branch. kasama doon si bayani. baka naman akala ni bf monarchy tayo at siya ang hari.

He said "it is already outside the power of Congress to intervene in such matters which... are being treated as a political issue."

ano tawag mo sa mga billboards ni bayani? hindi ba may political motives siya. praning lang si BF.

"Not one of them is even my congressman. They should not interfere on things like this. What they should attend to are the needs of their respective constituents," Fernando added.

The statements of Bayani Fernando only shows he's not fit to be president of the philippines. walang alam sa batas. sus kahit anong committee sa congress pwede kang tawagin. bakit ba ayaw pumunta ni bayani fernando sa congress? ano ba kinatatakot nya? akala ko ba matapang siya. baka naman ang kaya nya lang eh ang mga sidewalk vendors. teka hindi pala nya kaya mga sidewalk vendors. sige nga bayani, punta ka sa quiapo at paalisin mo lahat ng mga vendors doon na nag iisa. hindi mo kasama ang mga goons mo ha. ewan ko lang kung makakauwi ka ng marikina ng buhay.

In a joint statement, Golez and Defensor branded Fernando as "callous" after he continuously refused to answer complaints against the MMDA filed before the CHR by sidewalk vendors and informal settlers in Metro Manila, who have all been victims of the agency’s harsh and "inhuman eviction."

"Fernando… has not attended the hearings before the CHR, showing his disregard not only for the rule of law but also for his responsibility to account and be responsible for his actions and the enforcement and implementation by his men," they said.

di ba ang mga taong may ugaling urbanidad eh masunirin sa batas? eh ano itong ugali ni bayani? bakit ayaw nya pumunta sa mga hearings na ito. may tinatago ba siya? hmmm....

Golez, a known critic of Fernando, said there is a need for a House probe, as he cited a news report in which CHR chairwoman Leila de Lima said the MMDA is being "very highhanded. Their approach is authoritarian, and that is not good. The illegal settlers should be helped, not treated that way. It has become really alarming."

Golez, who belongs to the opposition bloc, said the MMDA "should not employ excessive or unnecessary violence on street vendors and resort to the destruction of their means of livelihood, nor resort to illegal or unlawful means in carrying out their functions."

Defensor, chairman of the House committee on justice, said even the Presidential Commission for the Urban Poor, in its report, observed flaws in the conduct by the MMDA of its demolition and eviction operations in urban poor communities.

"The patently harsh and whimsical method by which the MMDA is carrying out its operations constitutes human rights violations," he said.

Fernando’s AM station on hold

Meanwhile, several congressmen have decided to hold in abeyance a legislative franchise sought by the MMDA to put up a nationwide AM radio station , even if the agency’s scope is just within the metropolis.

Ano!?! Meron na ngang radio station ang MMDA at Marikina City, gusto pa nya ng isa. sobra na ito. by the way may nakikinig bang tao sa mga radio stations ng MMDA at Marikina? what a waste of public funds.

DZBF (Radyo ng Marikina 1674 kHz Metro Manila)

The franchise is covered by a bill filed by Fernando’s townmate, Marikina Rep. Del de Guzman.

I bet utos ito ni BF na magfile ng bill ang kanyang townmate

Defensor, Judy Syjuco of Iloilo and Nanette Castelo-Daza of Quezon City and Ruffy Biazon of Muntinlupa City expressed apprehension that Fernando might use it as a campaign vehicle for his presidential bid in 2010 "with or without the support" of his party, the ruling Lakas-Christian Muslim Democrats.

Iloilo Rep. Ferjenel Biron, who heads the House committee on legislative franchises, is "doubtful" of the radio station’s objective, as MMDA already has a newspaper known as Pahayagan ng Bayan in which pictures of Fernando are the "main features" of its issues.

kapal talaga. ano akala nya sa taong bayan, tanga?

"We will give him (Fernando) the benefit of the doubt that the proposed radio station is not in pursuit of his political plans," Biron said, who hinted that if ever a franchise is granted to MMDA, the congressional permit will only be confined to Metro Manila.

The lawmakers said that the station could duplicate the functions of existing government broadcast facilities.

The deliberations were also suspended because Fernando did not attend the hearing, no documents were presented to prove the MMDA Council – composed of Metro Manila’s 17 mayors – approved the application for franchise, and the lack of endorsement from the Office of the Press Secretary.

hahaha... BUKING!!!

Where in the Philippines is Bayani Fernando?

Ano tawag ninyo sa isang politiko / gov't official na gumagamit o ginagamit ang pera ng taong bayan para sa kanyan sariling ambisyon at interes?




Saan ba nagpupunta si Bayani Fernando? Matrapik po ba sa Ilocos at Aklan? Madami bang illegal vendors sa Davao?

Mga taga Metro Manila, DITO BA napupunta pera ninyo? budget ng MMDA (malaking bahagi ay galing sa iba't ibang lokal na pamahalaan ng ncr) ay napupunta dito AY NAPUPUNTA BA SA KAMPANYA?

nagtatanong lang po

Leyte

Take note of the following
1. tricycles with Bayani stickers
2. bayani fernando supporters (or maybe marikina city gov't or mmda employees) wearing pink shirts
3. government license plate
4. marikina city government logo on vehicle

click here for larger picture


http://www.flickr.com/photos/26110335@N08/2620803380/sizes/m/




http://www.flickr.com/photos/26110335@N08/2620785632/sizes/m/


Still in Leyte
different source. someone emailed this pic to me





Aklan





http://madyaaspublishing.blogspot.com/2008/01/winners-in-kalibo-ati-atihan-contest.html


Iloilo

http://www.flickr.com/photos/color_fx/2632784955/

Passi Iloilo

MMDA Chairman Bayani Fernando dispatched 300 pieces hardiflex board to help affected families rebuild their houses which where destroyed by typhoon Frank in Passi City.
http://passicity.gov.ph/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=91&Itemid=51

oh mga taga metro manila huwag na kayo magtaka kung bakit binabaha pa rin ang kamaynilaan kahit na sinabi ni BF na hindi na raw babaha sa 2008. ok lang tumulong pero halatang may halong politika ang pagtulong









Ilocos and Davao

http://www.autoindustriya.com/talkboard/index.php?topic=26505.0

Bulacan
during a bulacan fiesta

http://flickr.com/photos/peskynoodle/2491322639/



http://picasaweb.google.com/oniedjr/ObandoFertilityFestival200802#5202274362018301042

shot during obando bulacan flooding


Take not of the following
1. pink colored truck/crane --- siguro sa marikina city government ito
2. bayani stickers
3. pictures of metro gago este metro gwapito on truck
4. the patented BF logo/sign
5. guy holding mug shot of metro gago este metro gwapito


Is obando bulacan part of metro manila? hawak ba ng mmda ang obando? rescue relief mission ba ito ng mmda o marikina city gov't sa obando, bakit may wang wang pa. juskopo baha na nga may wang wang pa. at kung relief mission ito bakit may picture pa ni bayani sa truck

nagtatanong lang po.



Cavite




http://mgasidecommentsko.blogspot.com/2008/10/bayani-ferando-buking-sa-cavite.html

Quezon province
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bingle/2511012963/sizes/o/in/set-72157605113900991/





Zambales



http://bayanifernando4president.wordpress.com/2008/07/31/bayani-ng-zambales/


Aklan uli. ano ba meron sa aklan at balik ng balik si BF doon.



http://good-times.webshots.com/photo/2497969920081756689XLxFug


Palawan

http://palawanreport.com/2008/05/21/fernandos-pro-mining-stance-rubs-puerto-the-wrong-way/
sorry walang picture


Cebu




http://www.flickr.com/photos/kathleenhaboc/2822338178/


Laguna



http://sidemirror.wordpress.com/2008/09/27/i-feel-like-im-being-stalked/#comment-50

http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/regions/view/20081004-164612/MMDA-posters-out-of-place-in-Laguna

Calbayog, Samar

http://calbayogevents.blogspot.com/2008/10/break-muna-or-eleksyon-na-liwat.html


This blog was mentioned in Jojo Robles' Manila Standard column.



Bacolod City, Negros

http://piercedrockdeity.blogspot.com/2008/10/bayani-fernando-is-all-over-metro.html


Tagaytay City
http://kikoquiambao.blogspot.com/2008/10/bayani-fernando-wtf.html


Kung meron kayong pictures tulad nito padala lang ninyo sa akin. yung mga ganitong trapo eh hindi dapat tinatantanan!