{"id":148498,"date":"2018-01-24T01:59:17","date_gmt":"2018-01-24T06:59:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=148498"},"modified":"2018-01-24T01:59:17","modified_gmt":"2018-01-24T06:59:17","slug":"dilg-urges-voters-to-choose-upright-efficient-barangay-officials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/01\/24\/dilg-urges-voters-to-choose-upright-efficient-barangay-officials\/","title":{"rendered":"DILG urges voters to choose upright, efficient barangay officials"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_148501\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-148501\" style=\"width: 842px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/DILG-Officer-in-Charge-Eduardo-M.-A\u00f1o.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-148501\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/DILG-Officer-in-Charge-Eduardo-M.-A\u00f1o.png\" alt=\"DILG Officer-in-Charge Eduardo M. A\u00f1o. (Photo: DILG)\" width=\"842\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/DILG-Officer-in-Charge-Eduardo-M.-A\u00f1o.png 842w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/DILG-Officer-in-Charge-Eduardo-M.-A\u00f1o-300x224.png 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/DILG-Officer-in-Charge-Eduardo-M.-A\u00f1o-768x575.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 842px) 100vw, 842px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-148501\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE: DILG Officer-in-Charge Eduardo M. A\u00f1o. (<a href=\"http:\/\/dilg.gov.ph\/news\/Ao-to-police-fire-jail-officers-Double-pay-means-double-service-to-the-public\/NC-2018-1007\">Photo<\/a>: <a href=\"http:\/\/dilg.gov.ph\">DILG)<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA &#8212;\u00a0The Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) is set to come up with a list of qualities of a good barangay official to serve as guide for voters in the May 14, 2018 Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) elections.<\/p>\n<p>DILG Officer-in-Charge Eduardo M. A\u00f1o said his department was urging the public to vote for officials who were \u201c<em>matino, mahusay<\/em>, and\u00a0<em>maasahan<\/em>\u00a0(upright, efficient, and reliable).\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe barangays are at the forefront of government service; therefore, we will encourage the people to vote for a new set of barangay officials that are committed to the Duterte administration\u2019s anti-corruption, anti-drug, and anti-criminality campaign,\u201d A\u00f1o said in a statement Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe national government needs barangay officials that are committed to reform at the barangay level,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA), 58.1 percent of the total 42,036 barangays nationwide are affected by illegal drugs.<\/p>\n<p>With the release of the Commission on Elections&#8217; (Comelec) calendar of activities for the 2018 Barangay and SK Elections, the DILG has committed to a massive information drive to encourage the people to choose the best barangay officials, especially those who have cleared their communities of the drug problem.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA &#8212;\u00a0The Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) is set to come up with a list of qualities &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":148501,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[16950,13798,44528,4019],"class_list":["post-148498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-barangay-officials","tag-department-of-the-interior-and-local-government","tag-dilg-officer-in-charge-eduardo-m-ano","tag-voters","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148498\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}