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+ March 12, 2021 LAST City Council session, the phrase “kawawa kaming mga roving vendors, wala kaming makain” has again been used to appeal to the setting up of the pasalubong booth in Burnham Park.
But let me show another side of that Kawawa kami that people are now using more often during this pandemic. There are always many sides to a story and “kawawa kami” is of many sides. At the first public hearing that I conducted upon the start of my term in July 2019 was with the roving vendors. On day one, they were lining up outside my office requesting special permits so they can sell in the market, in the central business district and the parks. At that time, I already decided that my office will not be used as the recommendatory or party in the signature of roving vendors ID, which was the practice of the past administration.