N. Ecija residents see Bayani’s posters as premature 2010 campaign effort

Giant posters of Metropolitan Manila Development Authority Chairman Bayani Fernando, found hanging in street of Cabanatuan and Talavera town in Nueva Ecija, raise speculations that the MMDA chair is set to run for the 2010 elections.

Some residents claimed that they saw the stickers of MMDA on the vehicles used by the people who placed Fernando’s posters along the town’s streets.

“I saw some trucks and a van who brought those posters here, they have an MMDA sticker,” one of the residents said in Tagalog.

Another resident added that it was his first time to see the posters, but said he is sure that the posters were an early campaign scheme of Fernando for the 2010 polls.

Cabanatuan City Mayor Alvin Vergara said that he has no idea why Fernando’s posters scatter around the town’s streets. He also added that he has no projects involving the MMDA chair.

Fernando’s posters convey messages on following the law, cleanliness, and discipline; the same messages tagged with his posters found in Metro Manila.

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Bayani Fernando, chair of the Metro Manila Development Authority (MMDA), has threatened with arrest these indigenous people. According to him, they cause traffic.

Henry Borreo, a member of the National Council of the Kalipunan ng mga Katutubong Mamamayan ng Pilipinas (Kamp), condemned the statements of the MMDA chair in a recent press conference.

“After Fernando’s unmerciful attacks on vendors these past months, we indigenous peoples who are among the most abused and neglected citizens of this country are now his targets,” Borreo said. “We do not say that begging should be tolerated but the issue of dire poverty, the lack of basic social services, unemployment, and the massive displacement of IPs from their ancestral lands — these are the issues that government officials like Fernando are obliged to address, not the subjugation of the poor.”