PGMA extends P1-M for MRF in Mahayag

By Gideon C. Corgue, on 10-10-2009 01:53

San Isidro, Mahayag, Zamboanga del Sur – President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo this morning personally handed P1-M check to Mayor Paulino P. Fanilag during the briefing on climate change and solid waste management in San Isidro Central School, to help the local government unit of Mahayag put up a Materials Recovery Facilities (MRF). The briefing was conducted by Undersecretary Carlos A. Garcia, Presidential Adviser on Global Warming and Climate Change and attended by Governor Aurora E. Cerilles, Representatives Victor J. Yu (1st Dist.) and Antonio H. Cerilles (2nd Dist.) local government officials and barangay captains.

The President visited two barangays of the 3rd class municipality of Zamboanga del Sur – Lourmah and San Isidro, as her last leg of journey from her visit to Pagadian City and the municipality of Josefina.

Mayor Fanilag was pleased by the Chief executive’s gesture of help to assist them in putting up MRF in five (5) barangays who accumulate a big bulk of garbage and pose a threat to environmental degradation.
“We are truly blessed by her presence”, Fanilag said, adding that even it is the “first-time that the highest official of the land visited their place, yet she gave good news to us,” Fanilag added.

He said that the amount given will be used to purchase the said equipment which costs P4.5-M.
The national government will give its 40% share - P1.8-M, while the LGU will shoulder the counterpart of 60% - P2.7, to meet the needed amount.

Fanilag said, the LGU counterpart will be included in their 2010 budget.

With the acquisition of MRF, surely it will benefit 5 barangays with enormous garbage, namely: Barangays Boniao , Daniel C. Mantos , Lower Salug Daku,, San Isidro, and San Jose where garbage would no longer be a problem. (PIA-RO9)