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While many choose to stick to the status quo, Navotas Mayor Toby Tiangco long decided to venture further for their citizens.

BY LOUISE NICHOLE LOGARTA

PHOTOGRAPHY BY JO IVAN LLANETA

Apolitical life was far from the mind of the young Toby Tiangco, who hails from a family that has business in fishing, cold storage, and shipyards.

“My entire family are all businesspeople,” Tiangco shares. “So much so that my training, my college course, was Business Management.”

However, in 1998, he ran for vice mayor of Navotas, much to his parents’ disapproval.

They tried to persuade him to just go into business, but Tiangco had solid reasons behind his running for public office: “I had a chance to be part of the solution. If I didn’t take that opportunity, then I have no right to complain about government service.”

“Kahit ano namang bagay pwedeng maging marumi, pwedeng maging maayos (anything can be dirty work or you can make it fair),” he points ou