<\/a>Courtesy of Staff of Rep. Mujiv Hataman<\/p><\/div>\n
ZAMBOANGA CITY \u2014 Basilan Representative Mujiv Hataman called attention to some kinks as village and youth polls opened on Monday morning, Oct. 30.<\/p>\n
Hataman made the rounds in Basilan towns to observe the political exercise.<\/p>\n
In Lantawan town, he called the attention of some police personnel deployed at the Lantawan Proper Elementary School after reports of voters being prevented from entering polling places.<\/p>\n
\u201cPlease let the people vote, if they are not creating troubles here, allow them to vote,\u201d Hataman said to police officers securing the school.<\/p>\n
\u201cAng pagboto ay karapatan ng sinuman, wag nating isakripisyo ang ating uniporme at sirain ang imahe ng [Voting is the right of everyon; let us not sacrifice our uniform and destroy the image of the] PNP (Philippine National Police),\u201d Hataman added.<\/p>\n
In Maluso town, Hataman called the attention of a team of Army soldiers securing a voting center after the electoral board transferred the venue of balloting without authority from the Commission on Elections (Comelec).<\/p>\n
During a brief conversation, Hataman told the soldiers that what the document given them was only a request for transfer of the voting center, which the Comelec did not approve.<\/p>\n
Hataman worried that there could be some \u201cconspiracy\u201d to have the balloting venue transferred in order to have someone control the flow of people going there.<\/p>\n