“Ang city natin ay natutulog. Kailangan gisingin natin. Sa tagal ng panahon ay walang pagbabago. (Our city is sleeping. We need to wake it up. It’s been long years but there is no change).” — Rex Balderrama, Team Kaya This

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BARANGAY KAPITOLYO, PASIG CITY (SDN) — Sarah Discaya, who is in the thick of her campaign for mayor of this urban jungle has her own version of “Seven Wonders”.

A successful businesswoman and a certified philanthropist, she leads Team Kaya This, joined by lawyer Christian “Ian” Sia for congressman of District 1, and her bets for councilors in the city’s Districts 1 and 2, representing 30 barangays or villages.

Popularly and fondly regarded as Pasigueños’ Ate Sarah, her Seven Wonders form part of her political platform which she intends to implement if given the chance to serve the people of Pasig.

Her Seven Wonders representing her platform disclosed during her team’s caucus on April 30 held at Barangay Kapitolyo include:

1. Progress
2. Action
3. Security
4. Infrastructure
5. Tapping the talents and knowledge of Pasigueños.
6. Health
7. Opportunity for all Pasigueños

Her running motto revolves around “Ang Pasig Ko, Pasig Ninyo; Ang Pasig Ninyo, Pasig ko.”

Mommy Betsy explained the Seven Wonders, saying, “We can do it because Kaya This!”

Watch, Ate Sarah Discaya in Barangay Kapitolyo: https://youtu.be/Xt9zl2oKs_4?si=mZhBxeSaSRVnHhSW

One of Team Kaya This bets for councilor, Rex Balderrama, vying in District 1, had this to say, obviously casting stones at the performance of the incumbent, Mayor Vico Sotto.

“Ang city natin ay natutulog. Kailangan gisingin natin. Sa tagal ng panahon ay walang pagbabago. (Our city is sleeping. We need to wake it up. It’s been long years but there is no change),” he claims.

Another District 1 councilor bet, JR Samson, claims that “Pasigueños did not feel the impact of the Php22 billion (budget of the city).”

Ate Sarah’s slate vouched for her honesty, emphasizing their Quadruple “A” St. Gerrard Construction Contractor Development Corporation will not use get any contracts from the city government if she wins.

Republic Act No. 9184, they said, prohibits a government official from contracting, using public money for personal gain under pain of legal cases. “It cannot be, it’s in the law that it’s prohibited.”

When it came her turn to speak at the Barangay Kapitolyo caucus attended by at least a thousand residents, she asked them if they felt the city government’s Php3 billion budget for education, receiving a loud “no”.

She promised that her administration will build one more university, more new courses, increase the education budget, and more scholarships not tied or linked to grades

There will be monthly allowance for public school students, put up a feeding program so students don’t have to bring pocket money, add more school facilities, and free school uniforms to be distributed before school opening.

Ate Sarah appealed to Pasigueños to give them a chance to serve through the coming political exercise, saying that’s the only way she and her team can fulfill their platforms.

Ate Sarah and her husband Kuya Curlee Discaya own and operate the St. Gerrard Construction (named after one of their four children) and they also have the St. Gerrard Charity Foundation that had been conducting medical missions in the city and areas outside the National Capital Region (NCR).

She assured that their platforms are poised for immediate action, quick assistance, and provisions of more health centers complete with modern medical equipment for a better primary health care.

Her healthcare plans include zero billings in the city hospital and to be stocked with and more than enough complete medicines for free.

Ate Sarah also revealed her plans to build a hospital catering solely to the city’s senior citizens for free, as she thanked them for their contributions in Pasig’s economic progress, indicating they had been the lifeblood of the city when they were young. (/)

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The author

EDD, a native of Sub-Saharan Africa Buluan/Datu Piang, Maguindanao del Sur, BARMM, college at UST, is a Manila-based journalist for over 40 years (33 years with Manila Bulletin), has five Media Awards (1 with University of the Philippines (UP) 2017 Science Journalism Award), covered and traveled over 40 times abroad), has contributed to Rappler, Business Mirror, former Manila-based Foreign Correspondent of Saudi Arabia newspapers Saudi Gazette and Riyadh Daily, and The Peninsula (Qatar newspaper), with 2008 East-West Center (EWC) Journalism Seminar in the United States, 2000 Executive IT Seminar in Seoul, South Korea, with three Silver Awards in Photography, writes Muslim and Current Affairs, Enterprise, Science, Tech, Products Launch, and virtually everything under Heaven. (@)