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Guindulungan has new Executive Hall building

Mayor Midpantao Midtimbang, Jr. poses inside the newly inaugurated Executive Hall Building of Guindulungan LGU. 

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)

BARMM, NGCP address power woes

POWER WOES ---  BARMM Environment Minister Abdulrauf Macacua (extreme left) and BARMM Parliament Member Tocao Mastura meet with NGCP officials Mendelson E. Saludo, right-of-way officer (inner right) and Fermin T. Manos, Transformer Line supervisor (extreme  right) on how to improve power supply in Maguindanao. The NGCP officials promised to solve the problem with the purchase of power supplies to improve the agency’s services in the province. (PHOTO COURTESY OF MENRE-BARMM / MINDANAO EXPOSE’) 

COTABATO CITY --- Officials of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) on Thursday (October 17) met with officials of the National Grid Corp. of the Philippines (NGCP) to help find solutions to the nagging problem of lack or inadequate supply of electricity in several Maguindanao towns.

BARMM Minister of Environment, Natural Resources, and Energy (MENRE) Abdulrauf Macacua called for the meeting.

Macacua, together with BARMM Parliament Member Tocao Mastura met with NGCP’s Mendelson E. Saludo, right-of-way officer, and Fermin T. Manos, transformer line supervisor at the MENRE-BARMM office.

Macacua said the local governments of Sultan Kudarat, Sultan Mastura, Parang, Matanog, Barira, and Buldon, all in Maguindanao’s first district and known as “Iranun area,” have sought BARMM’s help on remedies to maintain an adequate supply of electricity.

NGCP officials disclosed during the meeting that the outages experienced by the power consumers in the six towns were due to the company's sub-station repairs.

They assured Macacua and BARMM’s leaders that there would be no rotational blackouts as they would purchase power supplies to better serve their customers soon.

Macacua lauded the NGCP for its efforts to ensure that consumers in the Iranun area would experience an uninterrupted power supply from the NGCP through the Maguindanao Electric Cooperative,  the distribution utility that services Maguindanao province. (Edwin Fernandez, PNA - Cotabato)

Editorial

Our readiness when tremor strikes?

The National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council rated as “unprepared” the readiness of the population in Mindanao when a strong tremor would hit the island. Mindanao was shaken when a Magnitude 6.3 hit North Cotabato last October 16 in the evening (7:37 p.m.) which the Philippines Institute of Volcanology and Seismology measured as “moderately strong.” The island span trembled, including Cotabato City at Intensity 4, while the rest the weakest far away from the epicenter. That Mindanaons are not used to experience strong earthquakes could explain the “unpreparedness” when the real disastrous culprit comes. 

Aftershooks were expected and recorded at some 700 as of October 22 and may continue for a month at a time when the Phivolcs discovered a fault along the stretch of North Cotabato. Consoling was the least human casualty registered at seven but there were several damages on infrastructures, including some hospitals, public buildings and schools, and not well-built residences.