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PEACE DRIVE --- Kabuntalan-Mother
Mayor Salaban G. Diocolano reports on
the state of security in his municipality during the holding of the MPOC
meeting last May 3 and the signing of peace covenant for the May 14 polls. (Anne
Acosta)
THE
municipal government of Kabuntalan-Mother in Maguindanao held last May 3 its Peace
and Order Council (MPOC) meeting with the signing of a peace covenant for a
peaceful and clean barangay elections.
Held
at the Municipal Hall building, the covenant signing was spearheaded by the Commission
on Elections led by Election Officer
Mayryanne Marohomsar.
Along
with the COMELEC-initiated covenant signing, were Municipal Local Government
Operations Officer (MLGOO) Leilalie Limba, Kabuntalan South District Education Supervisor
Farida Badal, representatives from the 11th Special Forces, and Kabuntalan
Chief of Police Inspector Harold Manampan.
Barangay
candidate-signatories, whether unopposed or contested, signed the agreement for
an honest, clean, and orderly election as they, too, agreed or pledged to abide with the election rules and regulations.
Of
the 17 barangays in Kabuntalan-Mother, 15 chairmanship seats are un-opposed while
two are contested - Dadtumeg with two aspiring candidates for barangay chairman
and Puned with three aspirants.
Though
there are two contested barangays, Municipal Mayor Salaban G. Diocolano expressed
high hope that the barangay election will be clean, honest, orderly election in
his area of responsibility “with the presence and cooperation of our Philippine
National Police and Armed Forces of the Philippines... I’m pretty sure that
this coming May 14 Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan polls will be credible.”
Following
the covenant signing, Mayor Diocolano, who also chairs the Municipal Anti-drug
Advisory Council, presided over the MPOC meeting.
Among
those present were MLGOO Limba, Election Officer Marohomsar, Kabuntalan Chief
of Police Inspector Harold Manampan, 11th SF representative, Municipal Social
Welfare and Development head Ligaya Dumamba, and DepEd District Supervisor
Badal.
The
main agenda centered on the May 14 Barangay and SK elections with security measures put
into place.
“We
don’t want anybody to be harmed during the campaign period and Election Day and
its aftermath,” the mayor said.
The
chief of police reported that for the past few months, no untoward incident or
even criminality, not even petty crimes, happened in the municipality.
“I
proudly say that everyone is very cooperative in attaining the peace and order
in our locality. In addition, because of that, we are now rated ‘zero
criminality’ for the past few months. And we do hope to maintain this record
all throughout the year,” Manampan said.
Ligaya
Dumamba of DSWD-ARMM submitted reports
and findings on 4Ps fake beneficiaries. “These validated personalities are not
really indigents but pretentious to be on that state in order to avail of the
financial support from the government.”
She
said this problem has become perennial not only in the localities but nation-wide. “But rest assured, all of these
problems that have been brought out and reported to us are the subject of
thorough validation. And I will also bring this out to our regional secretary
for immediate action.” (Anne
Acosta/Mindanao Expose’)
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