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must be made between posts, comments, and
Residents of Manila Bay
opinions made by the author before and after
(CROMB) filed an action for
admission to the bar.
mandamus to compel the
Metropolitan Manila
The author is now part of a law firm in the City
Development Authority
of Baguio (Licudine and Associates Law Office).
(MMDA) and other
Any posts, comments, and opinions posted
government agencies to
herein by the author is in no way and should
clean up the Manila Bay.
never be construed as attributable to said law
CROMB argued that the
office.
environmental state of the
Manila Bay is already
dangerous to their health
and the inaction of MMDA
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violates their rights to life, sa/3.0/)
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Manila Bay.
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CROMB and ordered MMDA Browse Our Pages
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merely a discretionary duty
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ministerial function. In short,
MMDA does not have the
discretion to whether or not
alleviate the garbage
disposal problem in Metro
Manila, particularly in the
Manila Bay area.  While the
implementation of the
MMDA’s mandated tasks may
entail a decision-making
process, the enforcement of
the law or the very act of
doing what the law exacts to
be done is ministerial in
nature and may be
compelled by mandamus.
Anent the issue on whether
or not MMDA’s task under
the Environmental Code
involves a general clean up,
the Supreme Court ruled
that MMDA’s mandate under
the Environmental Code is to
perform cleaning in general
and not just to attend to
specific incidents of
pollution. Hence, MMDA,
together with the other
government agencies, must
act to clean up the Manila
Bay as ordered by the RTC.
 
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