DESPITE the accusation of Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio to the members of the Association of Concerned Teachers (ACT) as sympathizers of a terrorist group, the group said that they will still push for the drafted proposal on local allowance and subsidy.

The representative of ACT Teachers Partylist, Congressman Antonio Tinio, during the 2nd General Assembly of the Liga ng mga Iskolar ng Bayan (LIB) on Monday, October 22, said that the demand is not even a new thing.

"Napag-iwanan na ang Davao City," Tinio said, adding that all other big cities in the country have been giving local allowances and subsidies to teachers, except the city.

He further said if the city thinks that the demand is too high, they can provide a proposal depending on the capacity of the city to come up with a win-win solution.

"Kung hindi kaya ng city, then kung ano lang ang kaya, as long as magbigay talaga," Tinio said.

Few weeks ago, Duterte-Carpio said the local government unit (LGU) is not obliged to give local allowances and subsidy.

"Yung mga first-class municipalities naman ay nakakapagbigay naman," Tinio said, pointing out that if other cities can provide, then Davao can do it also, especially that the cost of living in the city is high.

Tinio, meanwhile, said that there is no need to lobby the demand to the congress as Duterte-Carpio suggested.

"There's no need to lobby it sa congress because kung national benefits lang, mayroon naman tayo niyan," he said. (LHC)