Mayor bans employees from soliciting Xmas  gifts

Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio urged businessmen and individuals to report immediately to the police if they will be given Christmas solicitation by anybody using the name of any offices of city hall.

Duterte-Carpio said the act of  an individual soliciting money using the name of any office of the city government even if he is not a city employee is considered swindling.

“If the person is not a city employee but he or she solicits money… I suggest to the person who receives the solicitation letter, to report it to the nearest police station for a possible entrapment operation,” she said.

Businessman Louie Cabandes bared to reporters there were people who allegedly distributed solicitation letters in the business establishments along Rizal St. Extension.

He said these people identified themselves as garbage collectors of City Environment and Natural Resources Office (CENRO).

Cabandes said he immediately took picture on the letter but the person fled when he saw what Cabandes was doing.

He showed the letter to reporters which said “This is to introduce to the garbage collector in the collection of garbage disposal of your garbage, waste and dirt to wet.”

“In view Christmas Season, any gesture of love extent to the hardworking collector will bring of Christmas,” the letter said.

A certain Simeon Escabarte signed the letter and identified as operations engineer as well as Manuel Barnaha, the driver of the garbage truck.

There were eight names identified in the letter divided into day and night shifts.

Reporters went to CENRO office to confirm if the names who signed the letter are Cenro employees.

CENRO acting administrator Rosemarie Lozada said that the names in the letter are not employees of the office.

Lozada said that there is an existing memorandum prohibiting all their employees from soliciting money this Christmas.

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