(Eagle News) — After the successful rehabilitation of Boracay Island, President Rodrigo Duterte has ordered announced a major clean-up, this time of the Manila Bay, warning hotels in the area to refrain from dumping their waste into the sea or else they will face closure.
Speaking at the Barangay Summit on Peace and Order on Tuesday, January 8, President Duterte said he had ordered Environment Secretary Roy Cimatu and Interior and Local Government Secretary Eduardo Año to start cleaning up the Manila Bay.
“They will start to clean it, whether they like it or not,” he said in his speech before local officials.
The President also directed all hotels in the area to have proper water treatment facilities or face closure. He said that the the protection of the Manila Bay area is more important than the loss of tourists, if hotels would not comply with his conditions.
“Lahat itong… Itong mga hotel… “Lagyan ninyo ng water treatment ‘yang hotel niyo, ‘pag hindi, sirahan ko ‘yan. Huwag mo akong hamunin. Eh kung wala tayong turista, eh ‘di wala. Hindi naman tayo mamamatay. You do something about your waste there or otherwise I will close it. Sigurado yan,” he told local officials gathered at the Cuneta Astrodome.
