DSA mayor concentrates on projects than rumors

PEACE THOUGHTS --- Datu Saudi Ampatuan Mayor Samsudin Dimaukom and Vice Mayor Anida A. Dimaukom implant peace to municipal government officials and personnel as well as constituents by offering a “boddle fight” following the celebration of 2016 Eid’l Fitr. (Photo by Anne B. Acosta)

“There is nothing I can do as it is already posted on the facebook,”  quipped Mayor Samsudin Dimaukom of Datu Saudi Ampatuan in Maguindanao, referring to rumors that he is alluded as one of the drug lords in the province, “which I’m not, neither a cigarette smoker nor an illegal drug sniffer, not even a pusher or manufacturer of such stuff.”

“The only thing that I can do is let it go and we already know the facts… my lawyer has already filed a case of cyber-crime,” he told the Mindanao Expose’.

The controversy does not deter or frustrate the mayor in pursuing and implementing projects that will help develop the town he serves following his re-election.

One of his administration’s project is the establishment of a housing site to relocate families residing along the highway. The resettlement is already half-way of implementation stage with surplus units to accommodate some hundred families.

The resettlement site is located back of the Pink Masjid (mosque). The Sangguniang Bayan has given the go signal to demolish the old settlement site for the transfer of the residents at the new site. Part of the plan is putting up a Children’s Park.

Another project is the proposed 60-kilometer Datu Saudi Ampatuan to Timanan, South Upi highway in an effort to link up more towns for trade exchanges and productivity expansion other than travel. (Anne B. Acosta)