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Monday, October 10, 2005
SpeakOut: Guv should set her priorities
By John H. Osmeña
GOV. Gwendolyn Garcia is geared to take over leadership of the Metro Cebu cities, even as she failed to attend to the needs of her constituents in the towns of the Province.
The “expanded Metro Cebu” encompasses 13 LGUs, from Carcar in the south to Danao in the north. Twenty-one percent is in the first congressional district, almost 30 percent in the sixth district and 10 percent in the fifth. Cebu City has almost 40 percent. The contiguous boundaries of the cities of Talisay, Cebu, Mandaue and Lapu-Lapu contain about 70 percent of the entire expanded Metro Cebu population.
The gravity and magnitude of urban problems like health and sanitation, or community planning, zoning and transport are often alien to the concerns faced by smaller municipalities. It will not be fair to the people of Dalaguete or Tabogon, deprived of a well-equipped and properly manned district hospital, for the Province to busy itself attending to the traffic congestion of Cebu City and Mandaue City. It will not be fair to farmers of Samboan or Tuburan, faced with barely passable roads, to have to compete for attention against the garbage disposal problems of Cebu City.
In fact, much of the problems in the urban areas might be better alleviated by attending to the concerns in the outlying towns: better roads, more classrooms and well-equipped hospitals and an infrastructure more attractive to capital in the rural areas will decongest the urban core and ease the overload of its infrastructure and social services.
Mayor Tommy Osmeña or Mayor Teddy Ouano or Mayor Boy Radaza might be better oriented to focus on urban concerns. The governor can then concentrate on making the outlying towns a better place to live in.
(October 10, 2005 issue)
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