Presumptive vice president Mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio urged Dabawenyos to report election campaign materials that remain uncollected or not taken down by the candidates of the 2022 local and national elections during her Davao City Disaster Radio (DCDR) program.
“Kung atoang kaigsuunan nga Dabawenyo dunay makita (na paraphernalia) pwede nilang ipadala sa atoa ang picture sa Davao City Disaster Radio na account na messenger para mapadala nato sa mga kandidato para ma-retrieve nila ilang materials,” Duterte-Carpio said.
Duterte-Carpio added that the teams of majority of local candidates have already cleaned up streets and poster areas.
“To a major extent, na-comply man nila, Duna pa ko’y mga pipila nga nakit-an nga nakaligtaan or nabiyaan. Pag naa ko’y maagian ginakuhaan nako’g picture, and gina-send nako didto sa kandidato telling them to retrieve their materials. So padayon na siya,” she said.
In April this year, Duterte-Carpio issued Executive Order No. 15, Series of 2022, mandating all local candidates to create their respective teams to retrieve, re-use, and recycle all local and national election paraphernalia in the city of Davao on May 10, 11, and 12, 2022.
The order also mandated local candidates to retrieve, re-use, and recycle all national and local election campaign paraphernalia.
Meanwhile, environmental group Interfacing Development Interventions (IDIS) called on winners and losers in the May 9 polls to collect and dispose of their campaign paraphernalia properly.
This after the group documented piles of election wastes in the Catalunan Pequeno and Talomo areas. If allowed to remain, this can cause choking of drainage systems, urban wildlife ingestion, and waste pollution, and grow larger and may attract both solid and hazardous waste dumping, thereby generating an adverse impact on humans and the environment.
In a statement, IDIS executive director Lawyer Mark Peñalver said that almost a week after the May 9, 2022 national and local elections, several campaign materials are uncollected, many of them left on sidewalks and open areas.
