Lamitan City gets regional award for power-generation project
COTABATO CITY, Philippines — The local government unit of Lamitan City has received an award from the Bangsamoro local government ministry for its power plant project and shall receive a P4 million fund incentive as part of the special citation package.
Radio reports on Saturday, October 18, in Cotabato City stated that the P4 million that the Ministry of the Interior and Local Government-Bangsamoro Autonomous Region shall release to the Lamitan City local government unit is a prize for its having been awarded the MILG-BARMM's LGU Grant Assistance for Innovative Practices (LGAIP) 2025 for its multi-million Reinventing Our Services in Electricity, or ROSE, diesel power plant project.
The ROSE diesel power plant was established by the Lamitan City LGU about four years ago.
Residents of Lamitan City, covering more than 40 barangays, first learned about the award from a letter to its mayor, Roderick Furigay, sent by the director-general of the MILG-BARMM, engineer Khalid Dumagay, confirming that their LGU shall receive LGAIP 2025 in recognition of its ROSE diesel power plant project.
Regional officials of MILG-BARMM, which is being managed concurrently by the region’s chief minister, Abdulrauf Macacua, and Furigay, signed in Davao City last Wednesday, October 16, the documents pertaining to the P4 million prize for the ROSE diesel power plant project’s recognition as an exemplary LGU innovative thrust via the LGAIP 2025 selection process.
Lamitan City is in Basilan, one of the five provinces in BARMM. The region also has two other cities: Marawi, the capital of Lanao del Sur, and Cotabato in Maguindanao del Norte, where the Bangsamoro regional capitol is located.
“We are grateful to the Bangsamoro government for this very special recognition,” Furigay, now in his second term as Lamitan City mayor, said on Saturday.
MILG-BARMM officials said Lamitan City had received six Seal of Good Local Governance (SGLG) awards from the central office of the Department of the Interior and Local Government in the past seven years.
The yearly grant by the DILG central office of the SGLG award to municipal, city, and provincial governments is based on efficiency in public service, handling of local government coffers, and extensive peacebuilding and security initiatives of nominees.
The DILG central office does not grant an SGLG to a nominated LGU whose elected officials have graft cases in courts or in the Ombudsman, or are involved in criminal activities.
“We give the Lamitan City local government unit two thumbs up for its ROSE diesel power plant project,” Macacua, figurehead of the 80-seat Bangsamoro regional parliament, told reporters in Cotabato City on Friday.
Furigay said they intend to use the P4 million LGAIP 2025 grant to set up solar lighting facilities in strategic areas in Lamitan City.
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