Lapu-Lapu suspends curfew ordinance

(File Photo)
(File Photo)

TO SPUR business activities in Lapu-Lapu City, the Council has suspended the city’s two-year-old curfew ordinance.

The City Council, presided over by Vice Mayor Celedonio Sitoy, approved the request of Mayor Junard “Ahong” Chan to temporarily halt the implementation of Ordinance 15-064-2020 by passing a measure on Thursday, April 7, 2022.

Ordinance 15-064-2020, enacted on March 17, 2020, mandates the daily curfew from 10 p.m. to 5 a.m.

Lapu-Lapu City was deescalated from Alert Level 2 status to Alert Level 1 from April 1 to 15, along with Mandaue City. Their fellow highly urbanized city of Cebu was deescalated to Alert Level 1 from March 16 amid the Covid-19 pandemic.

When Lapu-Lapu City was still under Alert Level 2 last March, Chan sent a letter to the Council to suspend the curfew ordinance, according to the Public Information Office (PIO).

Chan said in his social media account last month that suspending the implementation of the curfew would give some businesses the chance to operate round-the-clock to serve customers, especially those on the night shift.

“Pinaagi niining atong gibuhat, atong gipanglantawan nga mas modaghan pa ang mga drivers sa mga public vehicles nga mobiyahe matag gabie, para dili na maproblema og kasakyan ang mga trabahante labi na sa mga call center agents sa Mepz 1, Mepz 2 ug sa Mactan Newtown o bisan sa kadtong mobyahe pa paingon sa Sugbo,” read a portion of the mayor’s post.

(By doing this, we expect that more drivers of public vehicles will travel every night so the workers will no longer have problems with their transportation, especially the call center agents of the Mactan Economic Zone 1, Mactan Economic Zone 2 and Mactan Newtown or those who are going to Cebu.)

Last November, Chan also requested the City Council to amend the period of the curfew to help businesses in the city.

A month later, on the evening of Dec. 16, Typhoon Odette (Rai) struck the city and other parts of Cebu.

The calamity made Chan push for the suspension of the curfew ordinance to help the city’s economy recover.

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