Robredo to give full disclosure on banned billboards

Thursday, January 27, 2011

AN INTERIOR and local government official is expected to give a full disclosure on a law banning the use of names and images of officials in billboards and signages of the agency's programs and projects.

This as a number of billboards portraying road concreting project of Governor Sharee Ann Tan-de los Santos and Vice Governor James Tan are still visible in several areas in Samar province several weeks ago.

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It may be recalled that Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) Secretary Jesse Robredo ordered the banning of names or initials and/or images or pictures of government officials in billboards and signages of government programs, projects and properties as per DILG Memorandum Circular No. 2010-101 dated September 23, 2010.

Robredo will arrive at 10:30 a.m. Friday as he will be the guest speaker to this year’s local legislative awards at the People’s Center and Library in Tacloban City at 1 p.m. to 3 p.m.

DILG-Eastern Visayas information officer Myles Colasito in a phone interview said their office have already sent the copy of the memorandum to the provincial DILG in Samar to implement it in the province.

However, Colasito admitted that per report from Samar provincial operations officer Director Artemio Canejo, two more banners violating such memorandum are still visible in two locations in Samar.

Critics claimed the governor, vice governor and DILG officials in Samar are ignorant of the law.

It can be recalled that Robredo was firm in the full implementation of the said memorandum during his first months in office. Leyte Samar Daily Express