NORTH COTABATO, Philippines - Four infrastructure projects -- a school building and three newly-concreted farm-to-market roads -- were officially turned over early this week by the provincial government to poor communities in far-flung areas.
The keys to the newly-built P750,000 worth school building in Barangay Banucagon in Pigcayawan town was handed over to barangay officials by North Cotabato Gov. Emmylou Taliño-Mendoza in the presence of villagers.
The construction of the school building and the concreting of the three roads, one connecting a public high school in Manuangan area in Pigcawayan to the Cotabato-Davao Highway, and two more, which straddle through Barangays Amazonian and Talun-Talunan in Kidapawan City and Makilala, respectively, were bankrolled by the office of Mendoza.
The governor also opened to Banucagon residents a P5-million worth concrete road connecting the campus of a public high school in Manuangan to a strategic stretch of the Cotabato-Davao Highway.
Mendoza had also led the separate inauguration of the newly-concreted farm-to-market roads in Barangays Amazonian and Talun-Talunan.
Mendoza’s office spent almost P10 million for the two road projects, according to documents obtained from the provincial engineer’s office.
Mendoza said her projects in far-flung areas in North Cotabato’s 17 towns and in Kidapawan City are "peace packages†to reach local communities. - John Unson