COTABATO CITY—Maguindanao del Norte is shaping up to become the most secured and investment-conducive province in Mindanao, as laid down in development foresight that Governor Abdulraof Macacua elaborated during his first State of the Province address on Thursday afternoon.
Macacua assured the national government as well as the leadership of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) that the new province’s development goals as drawn in its 7-point Executive Agenda are aligned with the 12-Point Priority Agenda of the BARMM government lead by Chief Minister Ahod Balawag Ebrahim.
“GobSam”, as the governor is fondly called among his constituents, presented a line of accomplishments longer by the province’s relatively shorter period of existence, and notwithstanding intervening legal challenges, he said.
Completed interior roads construction will eventually connect a south-north artery to linkup the riverside routes of Mother Kabuntalan, Northern Kabuntalan, Sultan Kudarat, and Sultan Mastura towns with Cotabato City, and with the north upland road networks of Parang, Barira, Matanog and Buldon towns, and Lanao provinces.
Documented field reports of the District Engineering Office (DEO) showed such infrastructure developments obtaining in the new province, said District Engineer Avila Abobakar. The governor said his administration’s 7-Point Executive Agenda also concurs in with President Ferdinand “Bongbong” R. Marcos, Jr.’s platform of governance as articulated in the national calls for a change through “Bagong Pilipinas” that is, “enabling a government in reaching out to the people, and dismantling structural disablers by enlisting the active involvement of citizens and private groups.”
