Bigger demolition team

TO intensify their campaign against illegal vendors, retired Colonel Yusof Jimlani said that he assigned some personnel from the Drainage Management Unit (DMU) to the demolition unit of the city.

Jimlani, who is both the chairman of the DMU and the city's demolition unit, said Monday that he added DMU personnel in order to add to the labor force of the demolition unit.

"We only have 11 personnel sa demolition na original and we added 19 lately so that makes it 30 and this is still not enough because in one operation we normally have around 60 people," Jimlani said.

As of August 2013 to September 14, Jimlani said that they have already conducted 113 demolition operations with an average of nine operations per month, three operations per week with each operation covering three areas.

Jimlani added that they have recorded a "total of 246 documented first-time violators, eight second-time violators and a total number of 186 claimants."

The confiscated items, according to him, are being donated to the House of Hope, Balay Dangupan, City Social Services and Development Office, Davao City Rehabilitation and Treatment Center for Drug Dependents, Davao City Women Dormitory, Davao City Men Jail and Boystown.

Jimlani also said that another reason for the re-assignment of the DMU personnel to the demolition unit is to allow the City Engineer's Office (CEO) to cope with their collection of wastes.

"Currently, we have 76.10 cubic meters of dirt na hindi nakuha nang city engineer's natin because of the lack of trucks to haul it," he said.

Jimlani said that one truck from the CEO can only handle five cubic meters of waste.

"Since I handle the drainage and demolition tanan na naa sa drainage gina-add nako ang mga personnel sa drainage na dili nako mapa-trabaho. Ginagamit nato sila as civilians para makuha nato ning mga gahi ug ulo nato na mga vendors (We are using them as civilians so that we can get the hard- headed vendors)," he said.

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