GUINDULUNGAN, Maguindanao --- Municipal Mayor
Datu Midpantao, Jr. led the inauguration last October 18 of the town’s
Executive Hall Building just adjacent the old Municipal Hall, the latter to be
occupied as the Sangguniang Bayan and other offices.
The
Executive Hall, which is the town’s new Municipal Hall building, the mayor
said, costs P20 million.
The construction of the Executive
Hall started during the time of his
father, Datu Midpantao Midtimbang, Sr., when he was then the mayor of the
locality in 2010.
The mayor explained that Its completion was delayed due to
insufficiency of funds or very limited resources at a time when the 20 percent
budget accruing from the Internal Revenue Allotment was not enough to sustain
the project in a short span of time.
“After almost a decade, finally the
Municipal Executive Hall building has been fully completed with financial
assistance of P5 million coursed through the office of Senator Juan Edgardo
“Sonny” Angara… Our thanks and gratitude for the financial intervention
assistance of the senator,” the mayor said.
Turning on the attendees at the
inauguration rites, the mayor said: “I take this opportunity to thank all of my
staff, employees, department heads, barangay chairmen and officials, men in
uniform, the different sectors, and different line-agencies for your untiring
support to this administration. What we have right now, I owe this to all of
you.”
The inauguration of the new building was
attended by 6th ID commander Maj. Gen. Diosdado C. Carreon and his staff, Board
Member Bobby B. Midtimbang of Maguindanao 2nd District, former Regional
Interior and Local Government secretary
Atty. Kirby Matalam Abdullah, former Talayan Mayor Datu Tungkang Midtimbang,
and representatives from the provincial government of Maguindanao.
In an interview, Mayor Midtimbang, Jr.
said the old Municipal Hall building will be utilized by the Sangguniang Bayan
members and different line-agencies such as the Ministry of Social Welfare and
Development, Ministry of the Interior and Local Government, and those for the
officers of the Ministry of Agriculture
and Ministry of Agrarian Reform.
The new Executive Hall Building, he
said, will house the Municipal Mayor’s Office, treasury and finance, and the
engineering department. (Anne Acosta)
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