LOCAL government units , particularly those in Metro Manila, have not enjoyed or wielded more authority or control over our lives than they do today during this time of the coronavirus pandemic.
This surveillance power extends to control over the immediate environment in which we live. LGUs superintend life in our villages; they license and supervise the operations of businesses in your area. They also issue permits for the construction of public and private works in your neighborhood. In these excursions, I am relentlessly subjected to temperature checks and inquisition on my medical history. I often wonder whether the health authorities ever bother to examine these endless inquisition forms, of which I must have filled hundreds. Some joints, wearying over the chore themselves, now just require customers to sign a registry.In our subdivision today, there is now an ongoing massive public works project of laying the pipes for our sewage system.
My narrative here gives the impression that our village is one cohesive and compact barangay. In fact, we share our barangay with another residential area across the street, whose residents are the ones who routinely rule the barangay elections.The LGUs with their new power during the pandemic should operate on the principle that with power also comes responsibility.
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