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Major local government units in the region and in some other parts of the country as well are actively implementing their car towing and clamping ordinances. While erring drivers can only whine and scratch their heads, local officials are getting their paychecks for inefficiency if not laughing their way for their negligence. Republic Act 9160 otherwise known as the Local Government Code of the Philippines is clear: Section 16.   General Welfare.  – Every local government unit shall exercise the powers expressly granted, those necessarily implied therefrom, as well as powers necessary, appropriate, or incidental for its efficient and effective governance, and those which are essential to the promotion of the general welfare. Within their respective territorial jurisdictions, local government units shall ensure and support, among other things, the preservation and enrichment of culture, promote health and safety, enhance the right of the people to a balanced ecology, encourage and

The havoc brought about by the recent calamities brings into question the efforts toward disaster risk reduction management. While the government boasts of having enacted the Philippine Disaster Risk Reduction Management Act (Republic Act No. 10121), it failed to minimize casualties and injuries that the latest typhoon-turned low pressure area, Usman, resulted to the   death of 85 persons, 20 missing and 40 others injured in Eastern Visayas, Bicol and MIMAROPA in the last few days of December 2018. A similar disaster occurred barely two months ago when Typhoon Ompong ravaged Luzon and Visayas causing 8 2 casualties, 138 injured and two missing . The Philippines consistently ranks third in the World Risk Index. In 2018, the country scored 25.14 next to Tonga's 29.42 and Vanuato's 50.28. Though the figure is slightly lower to its previous year score of 27.69, it is still classified as "Very High". The Philippines likewise scored 49.94 and 50.33 in the Risk Index'