BECAUSE of the repeated complaints in the city market and his perceived inability to act in response, Mayor Samuel Co has replaced Enrique Alawi as market supervisor and designated Joseph Isabelo Sapong to take Alawi’s place.
Co’s order, signed last Dec. 23, was effected five days after, which relieved Alawi and authorized Sapong “to act in all matters attached to the official functions of the Market Superintendent for Agora.”
The mayor’s memorandum order mentioned the relief was “due to the exigency of the service” but a source from the mayor’s office disclosed the former market superintendent was relieved due to “loss of confidence.”
Alawi, it was learned from Reyvenido Cesar Lingating, the mayor’s executive assistant and CMO chief of staff, is now detailed at the Office of the City Mayor.
No statement regarding his relief can be taken from Alawi as of press time by this paper.
This city’s Agora is one of the six divisions of the economic enterprise created by the city government to streamline operations at the City Treasurer’s Office.
The Agora generates the bulk of revenue for the local government through the management and operation of the public market, maintenance of sanitation and orderliness of all its premises and the collection of market fees, licenses and other charges due the city government.
Sapong, in an interview, said he will carry on with the existing rules and regulations in the operations of the city market, including the collections of stall fees and the Agora’s cleanliness.
He added that he will improve the system and procedures in enforcing the market ordinance, especially in guarding the buying public from dishonest and unscrupulous vendors and the collection of segregated garbage.
Last Dec. 14, Sapong lead the confiscation of tampered weighing scales during a random inspection on the fresh fish, meat and rice sections inside the Agora.
One week after, he installed one of the three Timbangan ng Bayan weighing scales inside the Agora to help consumers determine the exact weigh of their bought items.
The Timbangan ng Bayan is located between the fresh fish and vegetables section and is pursuant to the implementation of RA 7394, the Consumers Welfare Act.
Sapong said the two other Tambangan ng Bayan will soon be placed somewhere at the meat and rice section.
“I am requesting the sellers and buyers inside Agora to cooperate,” was Sapong’s short message.
REPORT BY JONG CADION
Co’s order, signed last Dec. 23, was effected five days after, which relieved Alawi and authorized Sapong “to act in all matters attached to the official functions of the Market Superintendent for Agora.”
The mayor’s memorandum order mentioned the relief was “due to the exigency of the service” but a source from the mayor’s office disclosed the former market superintendent was relieved due to “loss of confidence.”
Alawi, it was learned from Reyvenido Cesar Lingating, the mayor’s executive assistant and CMO chief of staff, is now detailed at the Office of the City Mayor.
No statement regarding his relief can be taken from Alawi as of press time by this paper.
This city’s Agora is one of the six divisions of the economic enterprise created by the city government to streamline operations at the City Treasurer’s Office.
The Agora generates the bulk of revenue for the local government through the management and operation of the public market, maintenance of sanitation and orderliness of all its premises and the collection of market fees, licenses and other charges due the city government.
Sapong, in an interview, said he will carry on with the existing rules and regulations in the operations of the city market, including the collections of stall fees and the Agora’s cleanliness.
He added that he will improve the system and procedures in enforcing the market ordinance, especially in guarding the buying public from dishonest and unscrupulous vendors and the collection of segregated garbage.
Last Dec. 14, Sapong lead the confiscation of tampered weighing scales during a random inspection on the fresh fish, meat and rice sections inside the Agora.
One week after, he installed one of the three Timbangan ng Bayan weighing scales inside the Agora to help consumers determine the exact weigh of their bought items.
The Timbangan ng Bayan is located between the fresh fish and vegetables section and is pursuant to the implementation of RA 7394, the Consumers Welfare Act.
Sapong said the two other Tambangan ng Bayan will soon be placed somewhere at the meat and rice section.
“I am requesting the sellers and buyers inside Agora to cooperate,” was Sapong’s short message.
REPORT BY JONG CADION