Bualan, Jaufar B.

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State of the Nation Address 2016
As I have read and heard the SONA for 2016, President Rodrigo R. Duterte
opened his speech with a sentence, I will not waste time dwelling on past sins.
Vindictiveness is not in my system. It clearly says what it meant, President
Rodrigo is looking forward to all he can do to change the current administration
of our country and has no time to blame the previous administration for its
shortcomings. He then said that fighting against crime and corruption is
relentless so he promised not to stop until the last drug lord is behind bars.
These kind of statements will surely make our police officers fulfil their
responsibilities until its been satisfied. Taking on more account, President
Duterte also mentioned numerous subjects to almost everything from having
peace from other parties, health, tax and government issues as to how to
improve it and how to implement the change as soon as possible. With these big
subjects on hand, theres no doubt that there will be small subject also. These
subjects will be about the implementation of free wifi from public places like
parks, LRT, MRT and government offices. All of this is good and I have no say
about it but what bothers me is President Duterte failed to include in this speech
of his is our current education and environment state. How could he forget to
mention the change he made from banning people from drinking from public
places, the restriction of using videoke because of a sole purpose, to avoid
additional sound pollution from places to places. The cleanliness that the people
stated from themselves even before President Duterte seated as the president
should be included and taken on account because of how fast it was
implemented. We can have the example of divisoria from one of the most
crowded and dirty place from one of the most crowded and dirty place for
wholesale and retail trades and purchases to becoming of the cleanest and
peaceful place that had change. If you will look at the internet for proof, you
would see the drastic changes the place has overtaken. There has no small sideshops blocking the road, trash have been properly disposed of and people are
not crowded in the place. This kind of change is only implemented here but all
over the country. Little by little, we are making an effort to stop old habits and
pursue to new ones. One that can help us improves our lifestyle and benefits our
environment.
One another thing that need to have an opinion is how President Duterte
didnt include/mention the current state of our education system. Falling into
place after the implementation of the K-12 curriculum, almost all of the schools
here in our countries are still have some major and minor problems related to it.
The DepEd should be more responsible as to monitor and handle all the senior
and junior students who have moved up this year. The public needs more
information regarding this matter because these things dont have enough
public attention. President Rodrigo Duterte should have shared his focus on this
matter because education does matter. This is the foundation of the youth and
the future of our country. This is not an easy matter to withstand upon but
looking at our President determination about our country, I think he would tackle

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these matters soon enough. President Rodrigo Duterte top priority for now is
eradicating corruption in the government and reducing criminality to zero,
making our country safe enough to be able to feel comfortable at walking at
night. This presidential term could be the one we need for and the one we have
waited for. I am looking forward to all President Dutertes upcoming SONA for
the country and world to know our achievements and improvements from him
and his administration management and for the good of our country.