City SP names new avenue after late mayor

Councilor Eduardo C. Rabago

COTABATO CITY --- The 15th Sangguniang Panlungsod of this city has  named a new avenue after the late Mayor Japal “Jojo” J. Guiani, Jr.

Councilor Eduardo C. Rabago, author and sponsor of Ordinance No. 4495 s. 2017, said the ordinance names a new road abutting at S.K. Pendatun Avenue in Barangay Poblacion Mother, extending along Barangay Poblacion I up to Delta Bridge as Mayor Japal J. Guiani,  Jr. Avenue.

Rabago said the people of Cotabato City and Maguindanao Province are privileged to have an outstanding public servant in the person of the late Mayor Guiani.

“The late Mayor Jojo has dedicated his life in the service of the people of Cotabato City and Maguindanao Province with honor and distinction, having served the city as elected councilor from 1992 to 1998; overwhelmingly elected vice mayor and presiding chairman of the Sangguniang Panlungsod in 2001, re-elected in 2004 and 2007; and elected mayor of the City of Cotabato in 2010, re-elected in 2013, and 2016, and died in the line of duty,” Rabago said.

Rabago said that during the term of the late mayor “Jojo” Guiani, the city government was awarded many national awards, namely: Seal of Good House-Keeping in 2911, 2012, and 2013; top-three Most Business Friendly Cities and Municipalities (1^st Class City Category) in 2014 by the Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry; top-three Most Child-Friendly Cities and Municipalities (Ind. Component Cities Category) in 2015 by the President; top-four  Most Competitive City in the Search for Most Competitive Cities and Municipalities in 2015; top-two in Top Performance in Real Property Tax (RPT) Collection in Region XII in 2014 and 2015; 2014 Regional Sandugo Awardee (Top LGU in Mobile Blood Donation); top-10 Outstanding Movers of the Philippines by the Save Me Movement; and Outstanding Local Chief Executive Award by the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology-12 and Philippine National Police-12 in 2014 and 2015, among others.

“It is but fitting, therefore, that the people of Cotabato City and Maguindanao Province, in memory of our late mayor, to name the new road in his name,” Rabago added.

He said the City Engineering Office has been requested to install the street names/signs at the corner of the named road and S.K. Pendatun Avenue and at the end of the so named road at the approach of the Delta Bridge.

“The installation of the street names/signs shall be completed by June 7, 2017, in commemoration of the 55^th Birth Anniversary of the late Mayor Japal J. Guiani, Jr.,” said Rabago. (GILMHAR A. LAO & ANNE ACOSTA- MINDANAO EXPOSE’)