DIPOLOG CITY – Zamboanga del Norte elective
officials and President Rodrigo R. Duterte are now singing the same tune: to
end the cycle of crime, corruption and poverty in the country.
In his inaugural speech during the oath-taking rites on
Thursday, June 30, Zamboanga del Norte Governor Roberto Y. Uy has urged all
elective official to join hands with the police and military personnel, and other
law enforcement agencies to eradicate all forms of illegal activities to spare
the public from hustle and bustle of life.
Governor Uy spiced up his talk with Bible verses, which call
for honest-to-goodness public service.
He also pledged to continue supporting the marginal farmers
and fisher folk by providing them with the needed farm inputs and fishing gears
including infrastructures such as farm-to-market roads, irrigation systems and
others.
Representative Glona Labadlabad of the province’s second
district also assured her constituents that all projects initiated by her
husband, former congressman Rosendo Labadlabad, would be continued under her
term.
Third district representative Isagani S. Amatong, on the
other hand, called on all elective officials to let “action speak rather than
words,” adding “all officials in the government should serve with utmost
honesty.”
“How can we teach honesty without being honest,” Amatong
emphasized.
Although the drug problem in the province is not as rampant
as other parts of the country, Zamboanga del Norte is faced with a record high
malnutrition problem based on the recent report issued by the National
Nutrition Council (NCC) with the municipalities of Sindangan in the second
district and Labason of the third district as having the highest rate of
malnutrition incidence.
