PAGADIAN
CITY: Beleaguered with corruption scandal left and right didn’t stop Vice
President Jejomar “Jojo” Binay from visiting this city last Thursday for a
weekend appointment with his Alpha Phi Omega (APO) brod, Gov. Antonio Cerilles.
Actually,
Binay’s visit is to share out wheelchairs and medical equipment in the nearby
Zamboanga Sibugay province.
Cerilles,
along with Romeo Pulmones, brought Binay after`his arrival in the morning at
the airport to the public market for a boodle fight breakfast together with other
officials in the city, barangay and the market vendors association.
APO
fraternity members and Boy Scout of the Philippines (BSP)-Zamboanga del
Sur-Pagadian City Council likewise joined the feast.
In
his meeting with the vendors group, the vice president told them they can avail
of the affordable housing assistance program of the government.
The
vice president concurrently is serving as chairman of the Housing and Urban
Development Coordinating Council (HUDC) and is the president, in his third
term, of the BSP.
The
72-year old Binay then went to the Molave town where he met with the other
executives of the province and went back here in the afternoon for a meeting
with scout officials.
The
ex-Makati mayor was the guest speaker in the induction ceremony of the APO
fraternity, Thursday evening, before proceeding to Zamboanga Sibugay province.
Binay’s
media representative John Maguad told local reporters the VP distributed
wheelchairs and medical equipment to senior citizens in Kabasalan, Zambo Sibugay.
The
VP-lawyer, according to Maguad, also visited Buug, Naga and Imelda.
The
former MMDA chief is widely considered to be the frontrunner among presidential
candidates for the general election in 2016.
(NEWS POSTED ALSO IN HARDLINE WEEKLY, PAGADIAN CITY)