Tolentino urges Mindanao mayors to impose curfew for minors

CEBU CITY – Presidential Adviser on Political Affairs Francis Tolentino urged mayors from Mindanao to pass local ordinances that will impose curfew for minors in their respective towns to help in the anti-criminality campaign of the Duterte administration.

Tolentino showed a template of a model ordinance from one of the towns in Luzon, imposing curfew to minors from 10 p.m. to 4 a.m., that also provided penalties for parents, local officials, and barangay tanods should minors be caught on the streets during curfew hours under their watch.

Tolentino was here to grace the League of Municipalities of the Philippines (LMP)-Mindanao Island Cluster Conference, and as a guest speaker in an event in Consolacion town.

There were about 380 mayors from Mindanao who attended the cluster conference for leaders in southern Philippines.

He said that, with this kind of ordinance or resolution, “walang pakalat-kalat na mga youth sa kalye during curfew hours (Our youth will not roam around the streets during curfew hours).”

To protect the vulnerability of children, Tolentino noted that parents and the local officials should be penalized should any of these minors be caught loitering the streets during curfew hours.

League of Municipalities of the Philippines (LMP) president, Ma. Fe Villar Brondial mayor of Socorro, Oriental Mindoro, endorsed Tolentino’s curfew resolution and also encouraged all mayor attendees to use the template resolution for quicker passage.

On the federalism issue, Brondial said the LMP will continue to listen to as many models and arguments about the new form of government before it can endorse it.