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The Metro Manila Development Authority (MMDA) is poised to file
charges against Mayor Jejomar Binay of Makati and the city’s
garbage contractor after they abandoned some 60 garbage trucks
around the agency’s head office in the said city.
MMDA General Manager Robert Nacianceno said the
contractors could be charged for obstruction as the garbage trucks
occupied a huge part of EDSA at Barangay Guadalupe Nuevo at the
corner of Orense Street in Makati, disrupting the flow of vehicles.
Employees of the MMDA and the nearby
establishments also complained of the foul odor from the garbage
trucks.
The MMDA official said he could not understand
the alleged order of Binay to bring all the trucks full of garbage
to the agency’s headquarters.
“I don’t see any reason why they will send
these garbage trucks to the MMDA office because [although] Gov.
Casimiro Ynares of Rizal terminated the 45-day provisional permit
issued to the MMDA to dump trash in a privately operated 19-hectare
landfill in Rodriguez town, Makati City won’t be affected since
their waste is supposed to be thrown [in other sites],” Nacianceno
said.
The drivers of the garbage trucks claimed that
they were just following orders from their contractor, while Binay
admitted that it was their decision to park the garbage trucks in
front of the MMDA main office, saying that they had nowhere else to
go after Ynares barred the dumping of garbage at the landfill on
Monday.
The law states that the MMDA is in charge of
finding a dumpsite for all the cities and municipalities in Metro
Manila, while local governments are in charge of collecting trash
and bringing them to the MMDA-designated dumpsite.
MMDA is also keen on making the Makati
contractors accountable for using colorum vehicles since majority of
the garbage trucks were found sporting white plates instead of the
yellow plates for public utility vehicles.
-- Jayson Cruz Luna
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