ZAMBOANGA CITY, Philippines — Security concerns and other reasons prompted the Sangguniang Panlungsod (city council) to pass an ordinance permanently banning the use of pyrotechnics here. The ordinance, formally approved and adopted on Tuesday, was authored by Councilor Benjamin Guingona IV. It bans the use, sale, possession, distribution, storage, and manufacture of firecrackers and pyrotechnics devices even during special occasions here. However, the city council exempted from the ban the use of the city as transshipment point for all firecracker and pyrotechnic devices destined for nearby provinces and cites. This would be strictly regulated by the police’s …
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