Mrs. Arroyo called the conference as part of measures to prevent possible collateral attacks because of her administration’s support for the United States-led war against Iraq.
Aside from the command conference, Arroyo is also scheduled to inspect the dilapidated 18-kilometer Naga-Uling Road.
Gov. Pablo Garcia, who met with Presidential Assistant Felix Guanzon and executives of the Presidential Management Staff the other day, said the President will arrive at 8:30 a.m. at the Mactan Benito Ebuen Airbase.
The President will board a presidential chopper from Mactan to Naga.
A motorcade passing the decrepit Naga-Uling Road to Toledo will immediately follow, wherein the President is expected to formally announce the P555-million Naga-Toledo road projects.
The 34.814-kilometer Naga-Toledo Road is the shortest link connecting Cebu’s western seaboard with the Cebu South Road and Metro Cebu, starting from the Naga junction and ending at the Toledo City Hall.
Its rehabilitation, funded by the Japan Bank for International Cooperation, will start in the first quarter of 2004.
From Toledo, the President will board the helicopter to Cebu City Waterfront Hotel in Lahug where the conference will be held starting at 11 a.m.
Arroyo will stay overnight at the hotel and will fly back to Manila early tomorrow morning. — Freeman News Service