Tom O gets drug trade info from 100 texts daily
Cebu City Mayor Tomas Osmeña is encouraging Cebu City residents to text and report to him their problems especially about the illegal drug trade in the city.
Osmeña said in an interview yesterday that since he launched and made public his personal number in social media, he has received at least 100 text messages per day from residents, most of them reporting about the illegal drug trade in their areas.
“Before I received 7 calls a day and now 178 in just one morning. Sometimes (I received calls and messages) from Cavite, Laguna, Dumaguete,” he said.
He also assured residents of Cebu City that he would take time to respond to the information he got.
He also advised them to give him more information but with specific details especially on the illegal drug trade in their areas.
He, however, is not complaining about the volume of text messages from Cebu City residents.
“But I am very happy [that] I am getting this kind of response because it means that people are really talking to me,” he said.
“We have 35 [police] vehicles moving and patrolling [the city], and they get only 7 calls a day. Yesterday, [it was] wonderful, they received 10,” Osmeña said.
Osmeña also said that he would not be distracted with implications made by his opponents that he might be named as one of the local executives protecting a drug lord.
“They have been talking that way. Then I will have to answer it. All my years as mayor I have been implicated in everything — that I have children in America to heaven knows where else. I am dying of cancer. I’m not surprised by anything anymore,” he said
He said he would just do what he has to do as city mayor and would let his opponents say whatever they would want to say.
He also said that he was not worried about his propaganda campaign on his drive against illegal drugs in the city.
“I cannot afford to be distracted. I cannot afford to lose focus,” Osmeña said.
He said his commitment is not to himself but for the safety and protection of all law-abiding Cebuanos.
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