Burial Needs of Poor in San Fabian Shoulder by Mayor

By Mortz C. Ortigoza

SAN FABIAN, Pangasinan – The indigents in this coastal first class town are lucky even to their grave because their Mayor generously pay for their burial expenses.

“Iyong singko mil sabi ko pabayaran na sa barangay official e di libre na ha-ha-ha! Damay na lahat ataol, embalsamo pati libing kami na rin pati nitso (The P5,000 I told the solicitor to bill their village chief so the family would not worry for the expenses (chuckle). They were all inclusive coffin, embalming including the burial and the tomb),” Constante “Danny” B. Agbayani told Northern Watch Newspaper about a bereaved family member who solicited in his office P25,000 for her father’s burial needs.

WINNING TANDEM. San Fabian, Pangasinan mayorship candidate Marlyn E. Agbayani and spouse vice mayoralty bet and incumbent Mayor Danny Agbayani (second and third on the photo) and Barangay Sagud Bahley Chairman Efren R. Fajardo and wife pose for posterity in a social activity. (Photo credit: Lea Mapanao Fajardo)

He said all of his poor constituents are given equal opportunities to receive their financial aid he forks out from his pocket.

The fund given yearly by the local government unit to the coffer of the social welfare and development could not cope with the needs of the destitute in the more or less 90,000 populated town.

The financial assistance of the Mayor from the embalming to the internment of his people here could shame even the aid given by the four cities of Pangasinan to their constituents who face similar needs here.

Meanwhile, Agbayani said he and his wife Marlyn and supporters are in the road already at five o’clock in the morning to meet and consult the residents of two barangays.

He said there were three hundred people average that attended the sortie but the biggest attendance was seven hundred individuals.

Agbayani slides to the vice mayoralty while the spouse runs for the mayorship. She is pitted with Provincial Board Member Liberato Villegas and Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) former Regional Director Juvenal B. Azurin for the mayoralty derby of the May 9, 2022 election.

“After the dawn meeting everybody except the village chief was a recipient of a financial dole out of P100 from either the Mayor or the wife,” a supporter told this writer.

The Kapitan receives thousands of pesos because of his intercession to make the meeting possible.

33 of the 34 barangay chiefs support the candidacies of the couple.   

 Agbayani is known to have a huge campaign war chest complements of his moneyed and powerful patrons and proceeds of his burgeoning construction business of government projects in and out of this town.

“We have now 60,000 voters but only 45,000 voted last 2019 election,” he told Northern Watch Newspaper.

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