Datu Anggal Midtimbang LGU reiterates unifying character

SOCIAL ATTACHMENT --- Maguindanao Governor Bai Mariam Sangki-Mangudadatu and Municipal Mayor  Maryjoy Estephanie Uy-Midtimbang poised to distribute wheelchairs for qualified senior citizens and persons with disability during celebration of the 13th Founding Anniversary of the municipality of Datu Anngal Midtimbang. The assistive devices are being funded by the provincial government for the target sectors. Assisting them is Maguindanao (2nd district) Board Member Bobby Midtimbang. (Anne Acosta)  

DATU ANGGAL MIDTIMBANG, Maguindanao  ---  The first Kapamagayun Festival, which means “peace and unity,” has been featured in the week-long 13th Founding Anniversary of this town which was celebrated November 23 with theme adaptation of “Responsible at Demokratikong Pamamahala tungo sa Kapayapaan at Kaunlaran.”

        Led by Municipal Mayor Maryjoy Estepahnie Uy Midtimbang, the festive “kapamagayun” is a continued call for a united effort among  stakeholders, government and non-government organizations, in the pursuit of sustainable peace, which, she said is “a prerequisite before we can advance development initiatives and implement our progressive agenda in an atmosphere of tranquility and mass-base support of the different sectors and the entire populace.”

The municipal mayor, with her husband and former mayor Datu Nathaniel Midtimbang, expressed gratitude to the support of the sectors and organizations in local governance and administration.

Despite the absence of Internal Revenue Allotment (IRA), the locality, the lady mayor said, has survived and surpassed the challenges in governance and pursuit of development programs though “with meager resources that we have…  It’s because all of us work together in unity in order to uplift the living conditions of our constituents.” 

She also thanked  Provincial Governor Bai Mariam Sangki Mangudadatu “for her support and assistance extended in our locality such as medical mission and other social services that the constituents need most.”

Mayor Maryjoy Estephanie Midtimbang  stressed that unity and solidarity among leaders are vital in their pursuit of the vision-mission crafted by the municipal government in congruence with the stakeholders in “our bid to implement more programs and projects that would give impact to our  community.”

In spite of the non-availability of the IRA, she said the past and present administration has  implemented infra projects “through our own resources and initiative and with the help of our provincial government.”

Governor Bai Mariam S. Mangudadatu, in her message,  thanked the town folks for the supportive mandate given her in governance as she committed “my support, too, in terms of social basic services, infra projects, and other programs that this locality may need for progress.” (Anne Acosta)