If you see any politician campaigning at the cemetery as we remember our loved ones who have passed away, erase his name from the list of the candidates that you will not vote in the May 2013 elections.
Even if they are not physically present many politicians take advantage of the crowd to have their followers distribute materials about them. The ultimate Epal.
Epal is slang which for the tagalog word ma-papel ( credit grabber or scene stealer).
Last Tuesday, Trillanes, , who chairs the Senate Committee on Civil Service and Government Reorganization, filed a bill that seeks to eradicate the unethical practice among public officials of claiming credit for various public works projects funded by taxpayers’ money.
Senate Bill No. 3310 is the consolidated version of the bills filed by Senators Miriam Defensor-Santiago
“This measure was put forward in relation to the prevalent unethical practice among our public officials who affix their names and/or pictures to announcement of projects which were funded or facilitated through their office, despite the fact that these projects were funded using the taxpayers’ money,” Trillanes said.
The bill prohibits the “practice of affixing name, initials, logo, or image of a public official to a signage announcing a proposed, on-going or completed public works projects, as well as installing signage announcing the maintenance, rehabilitation, construction of public works crediting individual public officer, bearing his or her image.”
The bill mandates the Department of Public Works Highways, in coordination with the Department of the Interior and Local Government, and the Metro Manila Development Authority, to remove billboards and posters that violate the law.
The proposed measure also provides for the imposition of administrative charges against the designated officers of agencies who will refuse to and comply with the law.
“With this measure, it is hoped that our public officers will serve with utmost responsibility, integrity, honesty and efficiency,” Trillanes said.
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The EcoWaste Coalition has come out with “Pinoy Cemetery Etiquette” or “Cemetequette “ reminding us of our good manners and right conduct when we visit the graves of our loved ones.
Here are some of “Cemetequette “:
1. As you clean you love ones graves, do not dump thrash on other people’s graves. Clean, scrub, polish the tomb of your departed ones in a safe and ecological manner. If you are repainting the tomb or parts thereof, pick latex paint, or enamel paint with no lead added.
2. Enjoy the serenity and peace of a cemetery. Heed the police directives for your own and your family’s protection: do not bring beer and liquor, firearms, knives and other bladed or pointed objects into the cemetery. Do not do karaoke singing.
3. Refrain from playing blaring music with car stereos, CD players, mp3s, iPads, iPods, iPhones or radios. The cemetery is not an amusement park or a place to show off your new gadgets; use a personal headset so as not to get in the way of other people.
4. Use your cell phone sparingly as sound tends to travel in open spaces like the cemetery; tone down your ringing tone or keep it on silent or vibrating mode.
5. Be happy with your departed loved ones without being boisterous. The cemetery is not a fish market or “palengke,” tone down your voice so as not to disrupt or infuriate others.
6. Refrain from engaging in disruptive or raucous activities such as playing board, card or computer games, bingo, mahjong,“truth or consequence,” “spirit of the glass,” etc.
7. Be courteous (and stay out of trouble) by not walking over the tombs or standing on top of a grave.
8. Keep watch over your children and do not let them run wild around the place. Show them the meaning of paying respects to the dead. The cemetery is not a playground nor a theme park; no running over the graves and no fights and shouting matches, too.
9. Take care of the plants and the trees; keep off the plants; do not pick flowers, even wildflowers; do not break tree branches; do not hammer a nail into a tree, which may hurt and damage it.
10. Refrain from distributing real estate brochures, political leaflets and other promotional materials that could only add to garbage woe of the cemetery and its host community.
Cemetequette is essentially an application of the golden rule: “do not do unto others what you do not want others do unto you,” EcoWaste Coalition said.
01 November 2012
I support the anti-epal bill, but please include in the list, the officials of each department agencies. Mas maraming epal sa mga ahensya ng gobyerno natin na matatakaw sa pag tatapik sa kani-kanilang mga sariling balikat at pulos pasikat na marami silang nagawa. Sa tingin ko mga epal din yung mga opisyal na laging nagpapansin at nagmamalaki (o sumisipsip) sa kani-kanilang mga kalihim na marami silang mga nagawa(?)at para ipakita na sila ay magagaling(?) hindi ba dapat kasama sila sa anti-epal bill.
Yeeeeeesssss to anti-epal bill! Sa wakas, mababawasan ang cause ng cataract at glaucoma sa daan.
Hindi na mawawaldas sa pagmumukha ng mga epals ang pera ng bayan. Baka sakali na idagdag nila sa tunay na proyekto ng kani-kanilang nasasakupan.
Papano malalaman ng taong bayan kung ano ang accomplishment ng kanilang hinalal kung hindi sila papayagan ipaalam sa kanila?.
Nabanggit ni Trillanes, “This measure was put forward in relation to the prevalent unethical practice among our public officials who affix their names and/or pictures to announcement of projects which were funded or facilitated through their office, despite the fact that these projects were funded using the taxpayers’ money.”
So in the interest of transparency and accountability hindi ba nararapat lang na sabihin kung saan pumunta ang taxpayers’ money?
Besides those taxmoneys would probably not have been spent building a road or a clinic or a school in a district if not for the incumbent getting funding from the national government for it. Bakit naging unethical ipaalam sa taong bayan ito? Bakit naging unethical ipakita sa kanila kung saan pumunta ang buwis nila?
Iba yun mga karatulang merry christmas o happy graduation from Cong/mayor/councilor etc na ang pinanggastos ay galing sa buwis. Yan epal. Wala na yan kinalaman sa pag-inform sa taong bayan kung ano ang ginagawa ng incumbent sa pera nila.
Kaya ang isang karatula na nagsasabi na itong project na ito… at nakalista lahat ng may kinalaman dun sa proyecto at wala naman super laking larawan na inaangkin ng incumbent yun proyecto na parang siya lang ang may kagagawan…yun ganung announcement ay okay lang.
Yan batas ni Trillanes kailangan himayin pa niya kasi mas nakakatulong yan dun sa mga bugok na incumbents na walang ma-ideliver na proyecto, walang mapakitang accomplishement, walang ma-ireport na maganda.
02 Nov 2012
Come to think of it, you are right manuel, if I may suggest, if this is acceptable, they are elected by their constituents why not let these elected officials call for an assembly, maybe every 6 months or do it on a yearly basis and present their accomplishments and projects directly to their constituents, this way the people will hear it personally and they can also ask their officials or better yet thru the barangay officials.
This way, the people can see them again, not only during election.
For the senators, they can always think of a way how to inform the general public of their accomplishments.
Just making a suggestion.
@4
Tama and many incumbents do that. But as you know assemblies can only be so large, an incumbent will not be able to reach many of his constituents through town hall meetings. That’s why they put up signs. The solution is already in Trillanes’ bill.
Sec 5 (b) Allowed Practices.
“Installing, or causing to be installed, signage announcing the maintenance, rehabilitation, and, construction of public works crediting the agency, department, or local govermnent unit, or bearing their logo, for the maintenmlce, rehabilitation, and construction of such public works.”
All Trillanes has to do is to add that it’s okay for the incumbent’s name to be included as long as it does not dominate the signage, as long as it is the same size etc. as all the other credits given to agency, department or local government unit, Information/accountability not epal kung ganun ang gagawin.
hehehehehe……
Amen to that amen…heheheheh… pede naman kasi ng walang mga picture, sulat lang ay ok na.
Hindi katulad ng nakikita ko na may picture pa si paquiao na sinasabi na bawal ang uminom sa kalye, pero ang sponsor at hawak nya ay “GIN” …. hehehe.. tama ba yun.
Tapos yung mga politicians ang lalaki ng mga pictures at pangalan nila kesa sa proyekto nila.Yung mga line agencies din dapat isama dyan, marami ring ma e-epal sa mga line agencies e.
At saka nga pala yung mga banners nila na bumabati sa mga kung anu-anong mga okasyon at selebrasyon, dapat wag naman sa mga kable ng kuryente isabit, mga nakakasira lang naman yung mga sinasabit nila sa mga kable e, baka maging sanhi pa ng sunog e.
Bottom line, dapat pag bawalan talaga ang mga epal, hehehehe…..
prans
There is nothing wrong to have a billboard or sign to whom project is to be credited (usually if in Federal system it is specified if it is funded by the Feds or the State/Province or both govt. the scope and the infos on how to access information in regards to the project as to the Contract and cost. In a system where projects and laws are privately authored or sponsored then there should be A Guideline as to the extent of attaching the sponsoring lawmakers to the project. (As opposed to the system where the Party in govt. is responsible for the programs and projects introduced during its mandate)
And yet it is unethical to even announce that this project is brought to you by the Liberal or Conservative or Parti Quebecois but simply by Your Federal Govt or Your Provincial Govt. and why??? Because the opposition Parties are all Part of Govt. and only lead by the Governing Party.
Napapanahon na talaga, at huling-huli na ang lahat, sa Pagbabago ng gobyerno, ang Pilipinas. Mabuti naman at mayroong mga politiko na kabaro nila, katulad ni Senador Sonny Trillanes, Mariam D. Santiago, at iba pa, ang nakaka-pansin ng sobra-sobrang “unethical effect” ng Epal…At, maganda din ang sinasabi ng #4…Pwede naman na “malakihan ang pangalan ng projects”, at maliliit na letrang pangalan o letrato ng mayroong prohecto..Kilala na naman sila, bakit pa halos mukha nila ay okupado lahat ang spasio, sa Epal na iyan..Tuloy, lumalabas ang tunay na ugali nila ( makasarili, at may sakit yata sa isipan, bilang kasakimang pag-uugali etc…)..Marami talaga an dapat baguhin, isa na dyan ay “Attitude or correct mentality” ng pamunuan, bago nila bigyan ng aksyon. Sila din ang nakakarma, at napupuna ng taong bayan..May Epal na, mayroong pang “family political dynasty”, na sumisira sa “Ethical values” ng mga namumuno sa bansa, na dadamay tuloy ang dangal ng Pilipinas, at dugong Pilipino, bumababa ang “tingin ” sa lahing Pilipino sa buong mundo……Komentaryo sa pagbabago, or penny worth of change.
Bakit hindi magbigay ng respective SODA (State Of Dictrict Accomplishment) ang mga congressman para mabisita na rin nila ang kanilang constituents. Pwede pa silang i-fact check kung nagawa nga nila ang kanilang ilalahad sa tao. Ganun din ang mga governors and mayors, taun-taon dapat may accomplishment reports na ihahayag sa kanilang nasasakupan. Ipa-diaryo pa nila sa local newspapers. Mas maayos ang ganito kesa sa nagkalat pagmumukha nila sa bawat kanto at daan.
#10, almost 99.9% okay ang sustyon mo…Sa lugar y bayan ko, Mayor daw ay private-Contractor pa, ng mga projects doon, at ang ginagamit na panghakot sa mga buhangin at mga gamit sa construction ng contrata ng Mayor, mga trucks-sasakyan pa ng Bayan, at may Epal pa. Siya na ang nagtago ng “sasaingin-kakanin”, siya ang nagluto, siya pa din ang kumain, pagkatapos, mukha pa nya ang naka-paskil sa mga projects..Ilan kayang Bayan sa buong 7,107 Islands sa bansa ang katulad nito?..Pagkatapos, sa oras na eleksyon, asawa y anak pa din ang makikinabang !..Kawawang Juan de la Cruz!…Maganda ang SODA na iyan, magreresulta iyan ng “honesty and transparency” ng mga pamunuan sa buong Pilipinas..A comment for change.
Sa bayan ko sa Zambales nakalagay ang isang malaking tarpaulin sa entrada ng sementeryo na may mukha ng aming alkalde kalakip ang mensahe para sa undas. Sa unang tingin magugulat ka, aakalain mong namayapa na siya dahil katulad ng ibang mga puntod tarpaulin din ang nakakabit.
#12 hahahaha
#12, humilera sa mga patay para mag-epal, hahaha!
#10, sinabi mo pa Rudolfo. Kapatid yan nung dating mayor namin, ganyan na ganyan ang kawalangyaan. At ang hinakot pa na buhangin at bato ay mismong sa mga ilog ng bayan, sobrang mga garapal.
#13 & 14
Puwede namang magbigay ng mensahe na hindi na kailangan pang ibalandra ang pagmumukha nya roon. Ayan tuloy daming nagulat lalo na yong mga galing abroad na kababayan namin akala nila humabol si mayor sa undas hehe!
Isang Sakit sa UTAK o kondisyon ng isipan ( di normal ) and Epal at “Political Family Dynasty issues..Marahil na triger iyon ng isipang-SAKIM !…Problema dyan, walang doctor o Hospital na mapuntahan, kundi, balik sa “pamilya” nila na hawa-hawa sila sa sakit na iyan…Ang masama pati na mga “electorates” botanes, y “Comelec, hawa-hawa na din…Buhay nga naman sa Pinas, ang gugulo nila ?…a comment for a Chage and Hope !..