Friday, March 14, 2008
SK leaders join unity walk at Palace; exams keep Cebu City youth head away
AFTER Cabinet members, police and local government officials, yesterday the country’s young and future leaders took their turn to join President Arroyo’s “unity walk.”
At least 200 Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) heads from Metro Manila and the provinces, led by national president Jane Cajes of Bohol, linked hands with Arroyo and other students and teachers during the noontime walk meant to show support for the President.
“Basically, no formal invitation was sent, but the SK, and with students volunteering, were there expressing their support for the President,” Cajes told Sun.Star Cebu in a long-distance interview.
PGMA scholars were also among those who gathered at Malacañang’s Rizal Hall to show support for an administration hounded by allegations of corruption in the aborted ZTE-national broadband network deal.
Cajes said they did not have time to gather the 122 SK federation presidents from the country’s highly urbanized cities.
In a separate interview, Cebu City Councilor Rengelle Pelayo, SK federation president, said they received this week text messages encouraging them to join the unity walk.
“Nang-invite through text to go to Malacañang for a certain activity. But it was not really compulsory, kon si kinsa ra ang available. I did not go because I have final exams on Friday,” said the University of San Carlos Technological Center nursing student.
She said their coming Metro Manila trip will be for the Philippine Councilors’ League (PCL) elections at the World Trade Center in Pasay City on March 28 to 30.
Cajes said that aside from the SK officials, students and teachers from different Metro Manila schools, as well as those from the provinces, joined the unity walk.
“It was just to express our full support for the President. We were there on our own (decision),” she said. (RHM)
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