‘Do your job or lose your P4K’

CEBU CITY TANODS’ REPORTS

Submit properly made accomplishment reports for the week and show that you are doing your job well or lose your P4,000 allowance from the city government.

Garry Lao, head of the Cebu City Office for Substance Abuse Prevention (Cosap), gave this warning on Sunday to the at least 1,600 barangay tanods in the city’s 80 barangays.

Lao made the warning after receiving haphazard weekly accomplishment reports from some of the barangay tanods.

“Majority of the barangay tanods that have submitted have no problem. But there are some barangays wherein their report are purely on manning of the traffic, but the instruction of the mayor is it has to be on anti-drug operations and apprehensions,” he said.

Lao, who is also the co-chairperson of the newly reconvened Cebu City Anti-Drug Abuse Council (Cadac), said he will be forwarding the barangay tanods’ reports to Mayor Tomas Osmeña by next week.

The barangay tanods of all 80 barangays in the city have been submitting weekly accomplishment reports to the Cadac upon the orders to the mayor. This is part of the city’s evaluation of the performance of the tanods.

Those who will be found out to be performing poorly, especially in the anti-drug campaign, will risk long in their P4,000 monthly allowance from City Hall, said Lao.

The Cosap has been doing orientations with barangay captains, barangay secretaries and chief tanods in the past weeks to discuss their concerns about the weekly reports.

He, however, refused to name the barangays that submitted the haphazard reports.

With these meticulous requirements, Lao said some barangay captains have been calling him to express their dismay on having to put their tanods through such scrutiny.

“My reply was this is not additional work. In the first place, this is the role and responsibility of the barangay tanods. This should not be hard if your tanods are actually working,” Lao said.

There are more or less 20 tanods per barangay in the city.