Two towns in Region XII turned-over a total of 15 completed priority projects to recipient barangays early this December as response to their communities’ concerns of insufficient water, unsafe homes, and poor road conditions.
President Roxas in Cotabato Province and Maitum in Sarangani Province held their respective ceremonial activities to formally turn-over their implemented projects to recipient barangays, funded through various financial assistance programs of the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) from 2016 to 2019 with a total amount of Php 59,546,136.
According to DILG XII’s Project Development Management Unit (PDMU), President Roxas turned-over a total of five Level II potable water system projects located in the Barangays of Bato-Bato, Kimahuring, Datu Inda, Kisupaan, and Poblacion funded through the 2019 Sagana at Ligtas na Tubig para sa lahat (SALINTUBIG) program. It also turned-over one local access road project traversing the town’s Barangay Del Carmen and Barangay Lomonay funded through 2019 Assistance to Municipalities (AM) Program.
President Roxas is one of the local government units in Region XII to complete its 2019 SALINTUBIG projects before the end of the second quarter this year, PDMU added.
Meanwhile, Maitum also turned-over five water system projects - two of which are located in Barangay Sison and one in each barangays of Zion, Kalaong, and Ticulab; two local access roads in Barangay Malalag, and another road concreting project along the town’s Santiago – Ablog Road. These projects were funded through DILG’s Assistance to Disadvantaged Municipalities (ADM), Bottom-Up Budgeting (BUB), SALINTUBIG, and AM programs from 2016 to 2019.
Its resettlement housing project, funded through the Interior Department’s 2016 Performance Challenge Fund (PCF), was also turned-over to barangay officials of Mabay where the project was constructed. The project, which features 7 housing units and 17 comfort rooms, now serves as home to seven relocated families from the town’s “hazardous places”, PDMU said.
DILG XII Regional Director Josephine Cabrido-Leysa, CESO III attended the ceremonial turn-over of these projects last December 3 and December 7 led by President Roxas town mayor Jonathan Mahimpit and Maitum mayor Alexander Bryan Reganit, respectively.
Director Leysa lauded the LGUs’ successful implementation of the projects and urged barangay officials and beneficiaries to maintain and sustain the turned-over projects of the government.
“Now you have these projects, please take care of it. We know for a fact that it is not easy to source out funds for these projects. Thus, I challenge all of you to take care of these projects,” she said.
Last November, a total of seven DILG-funded projects in the Municipality of Magpet, Cotabato province were also turned-over by the LGU to six of its barangays.
