Grotesque world - Cogon Market

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escalator from hell

It was the most admired and respected Mayor of Cagayan de Oro, Justiniano R. Borja responsible for opening the Cogon Market for the Kagay-anons. It's the biggest market so far here in CDO. It helped us so many decades and still serving up to now. The place was renovated several times but not as good as it became Cogon Market and Commercial complex few years ago by Mayor Vicente Emano. The Kagay-anons were so proud for this huge development and bragged to our neighboring cities that we have a world class market.

 Now what? Those wonderful thoughts, the structure, the huge amount of budget, etc. were all flushed into the toilet bowl. The market looks old and distorted after few years from construction, everything was wasted. The tenants were not properly placed, kids and beggars were everywhere. I saw their rusty escalator blocked with a warning sign "Bawal gamiton kung wala mo andar" or something like that, WHAT? what a waste. And in the middle of the building there was these 4 huge industrial fan facing upwards  (why the hell is this thing facing up?) and I guess it's not working as well.

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Double parking and street vendors were back and stressfully chaotic. Who's in charge for these? And beside their market office was an unfinished construction, stand by for months already for some strange reasons. The future of this project lies on the result of the officers' debate, some vendors said. There were too many disputed points needed to be resolved.On the contrary just to be fair, I saw some improvements like the on going construction on the third floor said to be rented by a Chinese businessman. Well I guess that's something good for the market. There were renovations on the outside too (I don't know what are those things for). I know progress within the area is happening, it's just that it's not clearly visible to us cause maybe we are too focus on things that distracts us.

My only concern for Cogon Market is the maintenance. If we could only take care properly what was given to us then we don't have to spend another huge amount of money for another major renovations, should have been given to other projects who need it most. The old lady in the picture represents the market. She was just sitting there the whole time, ignored but still hoping for someone to help her rise again from the grotesque world - and that's us Kagay-anons.