VOL. 6 ISSUE 167 • TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2013
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HE’S NOT THE ICE CREAM MAN. Manuel Sianson of the City Mayor’s Office’s Demolition Unit browses through confiscated goods including an ice cream cart from street vendors who violated the city’s 1/3-2/3 sidewalk policy during last Sunday’s operation along City Hall Drive. Lean Daval Jr.
DEFIANT VENDORS ARE HURTING Jimlani hits group’s use of ‘Jihad,’‘Alahu Akbar’ By Antonio M. Ajero
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IDEWALK vendors in Davao City who continuously defy the strict order of Mayor Rodrigo R. Duterte for them to occupy only one-third, not the entire width of sidewalks, are now hurting from the daily raids and confiscation of their merchandise by the city demolition team. This was bared by retired Col. Yusop Jimlani, head of the team, who reported that there is no letup in the team’s daily raids and seizure of the vendors’ goods even
during the recent holidays. Jimlani told mediamen covering the weekly Kapehan sa Dabaw at SM City Davao annex yesterday that the demolition team continued to implement the mayor’s order to stop the illegal occupancy of the sidewalk vendors even on November 1, 2 and 3. Jimlani said that the vendors went to the extent of occupying portions of the frontage of the city hall building in further defiance of Mayor Duterte’s directive and
its implementation by the demolition team. The retired Army colonel, who had been decorated for putting order in the old barter trade center in Zamboanga City during the time of the late President Corazon C. Aquino, said that a group of vendors was shouting “Jihad!” and “Alahu Akbar” while the demolition team was clearing the area. For someone who had written a book on Jihad, Jimlani said that the use of Jihad in such a situa-
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HELPING HAND. This Boy Scout lends a helping hand to a person with disability (PWD) who was one of the late visitors at the Davao Memorial Park in Matina, Davao City a day after the hordes of crowd trooped to the cemeteries during the All Souls’ Day celebration. Lean Daval Jr.