What now?

Iligan City, my birthplace, my home; from memory recall, Iligan has always been like this; meaning there have always been better days and days like this when you don’t know who to trust and made you think, Are we safe?  There have been a series of brutality happening now.  Where were the cops? 

Just because no more bombs blew up, we stop being vigilant, what if it happens again? We always take for granted our peace and our safety.  Now we have more notorious enemies.  We might meet them on the streets one day and unsuspecting and trusting in the goodness of our neighbors as we, might actually be victims.

What’s hindering our progress? From Industrial City of the South, acclaimed City of Waterfalls, why are we moving backwards? Privatization of Plants, Outsourcing of Employees (would mean lower purchasing power, less benefits), Threats to Peace and Order, Worsening of Traffic, Unresolved Water Supply, increased number of Out of School Youth, etc. Is this the Iligan we are so very hopeful of?

Threats to Peace and Order, we are all a little scared, to that tambay over that kanto, that someone who looks like an adik, or that drunk, and thieves or bandits.  Then there’s the bigger threat, those bad guys with guns, who would shot anybody who will resist. Worsening of Traffic is due to the never-ending-road-construction/reconstruction-your-taxes-are-working-for-you-bullish.  Okay, can our taxes work for something else like school improvements? Will you, Iligan City Government just leave these improvements to donations of politicos? Wouldn’t that be insulting to you and to us taxpayers? Unresolved water supply; this has been a disturbing problem Iligan has, absurd that we are in the so-called City of Waterfalls.  The most alarming of all is the increased number of out of school youth.  What happens to “the hope of our nation”?  What happens to them once they become full grown adults?  And what happens to their offsprings?