“Klasmit Boyet” promises Bisdaks better health care

CEBU, Philippines - By seeking the gubernatorial seat, media personality Roliveth “Klasmit Boyet” Cortes wanted to prove that an “ordinary man” can change the Province of Cebu.

 Cortes visited The FREEMAN yesterday and shared his plans if elected governor of Cebu as an independent candidate in the 2016 elections. He also ran for the same position in 2013.

He said he has seen no program of the administration of incumbent Governor Hilario Davide III that is beneficial to the people.

 “Let’s start the change in Cebu by putting Klasmit Boyet, an ordinary person, as governor. Stop the dynasty. Naa pay hope for change ang nasud. Everybody will turn their heads to Cebu,” Cortes said.

Having been around Cebu promoting his television program “Let’s Do Business” for 10 years already, Cortes said he saw the imbalance of economic development in the province.

 “I will set the economic development of Cebu.  It needs not a lawyer to make it but someone who could market Cebu,” he said. Davide, who is seeking his second term, is a lawyer by profession.

With the reported wealth of the Province, Cortes is eyeing to set up a superhighway from Sogod town in the north to Dalaguete town in the south to be called Tacay (Sogod)-Casay (Dalaguete) Development similar to the Trans-Axial Highway envisioned by the late vice governor Gregorio Sanchez Jr.

Cortes also described the issue on the kind of health services offered by province-run hospitals that he called a “big joke”.

He said there has been no provincial hospital that could provide services to the constituents, with the public relying only on the national government-funded Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center.

Cortes also hit One Cebu gubernatorial candidate Winston Garcia for making health services as an issue against Davide, as Winton’s father Pablo and his sister Gwendolyn were governor of Cebu for a combined total of 18 years.

“Kung si Boyet Cortes modaug, ato buhaton ang unsa nga maayo ipadayon, di mag-usik sa pundo sa gobyerno,” he said.  (FREEMAN)