Mainstream to good governance – Mayor Reynaldo F. Constantino urge barangay officials to lead by examples during the 3-week barangay governance development workshop held in Sydney Hotel, Gen. Santos City. Also in photo are (L-R) Sarangani DILG provincial director Flor Limpin Jr., Board Member Eugene Alzate and municipal local government officer, MLGOO Melencio Balanag. (JoJo Gocotano-MALUNGON INFORMATION OFFICE/ ippalma).
GENERAL SANTOS CITY – SOME 340 newly elected barangay officials from Malungon in Sarangani have completed the three-week seminar workshop on Barangay Governance Development Program conducted by the Department of the Interior and Local Government at the second floor of Sydney Hotel here, this city.
Local government officer Melencio R. Balanag said the workshop was aimed at imparting on barangay officials the importance of responsible leadership that is being imposed by the Aquino government in a bid to enhance barangay governance system along the countryside.
He said the seminar was successfully conducted with the efforts and participation by the Liga ng mga Barangay headed by ABC President of Malungon Hon. Delia F. Constantino, and local government officials headed by Mayor Reynaldo “bong-bong” F. Constantino.
“With almost all the town’s barangay officials in attendance, I am certain that the much aspired headship in the grassroots level shall soon be attained,” Balanag said.
Dubbed “Laying the foundation for Grassroots Empowerment for Accountable and Transparent (GREAT) Barangay,” Mayor Reynaldo F. Constantino said the participants who represented the 31 barangays during the seminar was a lucid manifestation that the old political system in the locality already vanished to pave the way for a more responsible and dedicated kind of governance.”
“I think I have already shown my people my kind of leadership that gears toward the betterment in the lives of my constituents. Today, I presume that politics in my municipality already met a dot, and it's now the right time for us to stand together, firmly, towards the fulfillment of what we once protracted to achieve,” Constantino said.
He said all government’s initiated developmental projects will be undertaken under the supervision of these new breed of grassroots’ leaders.
“ I think there's no more other reason for us Malungonians to stay behind the fruitful line of success, progress and development in the years to come,” Constantino, said.
Sarangani DILG director Flor Limpin Jr. said the seminar was part of the series of orientation program launched by DILG purposely to enhance the leadership capability of every barangay leader in the province’ 140 barangays.
Balanag said for Malungon town alone, which is one of the two largest municipalities in Sarangani, participants were divided into 3 batches with more or less 110 participants per batch for them to fully understand the teachings during the seminar.
“Though we have not able to get the targeted number of participants following the failure of six barangay officials to come, I still consider the activity as of great success due the active participation showed by the participants during the workshop, “Balanag said. (MIO-Malungon/Isagani P. Palma).
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