DENR-ARMM to remove campaign materials on trees, plants

COTABATO
CITY -- Environment officials in the Autonomous Region in
Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) have formed a team that will remove political campaign
materials posted illegally and those that threatened the environment.Forester
Kahal Kedtag, regional secretary of the ARMM’s Department of Environment and
Natural Resources (DENR), said the operation dubbed as Oplan Baklas” (Oplan
Remove) is expected to becarried out starting March 14 to send a strong message his
office is taking the matter seriously.
Despite
repeated reminders on broadcast media, social media and even by worth of mouth
that posting of campaign materials on trees is not allowed by law and by human
reason, propaganda materials of local and national candidates still litter
trees and public places that pollute the surroundings.
Oplan
Baklas will be implemented in theARMM provinces of Maguindanao, Lanao del Sur, Basilan, Sulu and Tawi-Tawi.
and//4.bp.blogspot.com/_0MlVzPSf23o/TLgcf92C7sI/AAAAAAAAAkM/0ywCDVlkCb4/s1600/IMG_3244.JPG Kedtag
admitted it was not the candidates themselves who placed their campaign materials
to trees and flower boxes in plazas and public places but their respective
campaigners and supporters.