Remove campaign materials, envi exec tells candidates

COTABATO CITY – Environment officials in Kabacan, North Cotabato on Wednesday called on both winning and losing candidates in the Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan elections to help dispose of campaign materials that litter the town.

Gerardo Laoagan, Kabacan municipal environment officer, urged all individuals who ran in the just-concluded polls to remove their posters and other campaign materials as their contribution to the town's clean-up drive.

“Posters with faces of candidates have messed the town. Many of these were posted outside common poster areas designated by the Comelec,” Laoagan said.

Posters of various sizes litter the voting centers of Kabacan and the entire province of North Cotabato. “If these tarpaulin and plastic campaign posters are not removed, they may land in canals that will clog the flow of water,” he said.

“If they really meant what they campaigned for, that is to protect the environment, candidates must remove their posters as soon as possible,” he added.

Laoagan said some candidates, especially the losers, have removed their posters the day after the elections but the winners have yet to do so. (Edwin Fernandez /PNA)