By: Boy Ryan B. Zabal
The Aklan PNP advised the public to refrain from using firecrackers and pyrotechnics to ensure a peaceful holiday celebration this christmas season.
Aklan police Provincial Director Supt. William Macavinta in an effort to reduce the number of injuries and accidents that maybe caused by illegal firecrackers in welcoming the New Year and Christmas celebration appealed to all Aklanons to observe “Iwas Paputok”.
“The public is warned to use firecrackers and pyrotechnics during New Year, instead, use other noisemakers to celebrate the occasion,” said Macavinta.
Macavinta also ordered the massive “clean-up” of unauthorized distributors, sellers and manufacturers of firecrackers and other pyrotechnic devices in Kalibo and other towns of Aklan.
He also advised all police chiefs to be most alert during the holidays to implement the law regulating the sale, manufacture, distribution and the use of firecrackers.
The “Iwas Paputok” campaign of the Department of Health and PNP, Macavinta said, is directed “to minimize accidents and deaths to civilians and revelers during the New Year and Christmas holidays.”
“Even the cops and civilians are discouraged to fire their guns to welcome the New Year. The policemen proven to have intentionally and indiscriminately fired their guns may face dismissal,” Macavinta stressed.Meanwhile, Kalibo mayor Raymar Rebaldo has yet to designate a firecracker zone in support to the government’s Iwas Paputok drive to minimize accidents, notably, the ‘explosion of firecrackers’, which destroyed stalls selling firecrackers and other pyrotechnic devices along Osmena Avenue in 2003. /MP
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