Comelec's Oplan Kakas in full force
BY VENUS G. VILLANUEVA

OPLAN KAKAS. Comelec Aklan is serious in its campaign to implement the designated common poster areas for candidates of the May 14 polls. (BRZabal)

KALIBO, Aklan - Campaign posters strategically posted in public areas not designated by the Commission on Elections (Comelec) as common poster areas here will soon be scraped off and removed.
This was what agreed upon in a recent meeting/conference called for by Comelec-Aklan with members of the Aklan media.
OIC Provincial Election Supervisor Lorena Tumbagahan said the task force specifically formed to remove the illegally-posted posters composed of the Comelec and the PNP will lead in the removal/scraping off of these posters at major thoroughfares in Kalibo to show the violators that the task force is serious in this campaign.
Dubbed “Operation Kakas Posters”, Tumbagahan also invited the Aklan media to join in removing posters on Monday, February 26, as well as to document and witness this first-ever activity of the task force in the province this election season.
Some members of the Aklan media who attended the press conference identified a partylist candidate as having the most posters placed in public areas here.
Tumbagahan said “Operation Kakas Posters” in Kalibo will be replicated in all of Aklan’s barangays deputizing barangay officials to do the same activity.
“The Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) here has already committed to help implement the task force’ operations in the barangays,” said Tumbagahan.
“We call on the candidates and their coordinators here to already avoid placing their posters in public places as this is punishable by law. They should only display their posters at designated common poster areas,” Tumbagahan said.