"We are up to the challenge", says Mayor Thomas Louis Gonzaga, committing to the huge task of sustaining the government help to facilitate easy social reintegration for former rebels.
Gonzaga, heads the host town allowing 50 hectares of agricultural and residential lands for the construction of KR Kalayaan Resettlement Center (KKRC) also helped the government screen the ten families who shall live in the new community with 15 rebel returnees.
KKRC is implemented in line with the government's Social Integration Program for rebel returnees and by putting up the resettlement program, former governor Erico Aumentado hopes he could continue convincing rebels to lay down their arms and go back to the mainstream working for peace.
Danao has greatly reaped from the benefits of the project, he told media covering the turn over of the 18 units initially built by the government for the resettlement site.
But former guerilla and legendary fighter, Epitacio Ramirez, or Kumander Vargas, who represents the 15 rebel returnee beneficiaries of the KKRC has earlier aired his fear that government may discontinue support after the project turn-over.
Funded by the President's Social Fund and in collaboration with the Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process and the Provincial Government of Bohol, the P6 Million KKRC includes electrification, water system installation and the putting up of a multi-purpose pavement and community Center.
Government funds, specifically the P1.5M form OPAPP could not be downloaded as fast that only 18 of the original 25 houses were completed during the turn-over, says retired Provincial Social Welfare Officer Constancia Tunacao.
The incomplete development of the area has concerned Ramirez who wanted the assurance that the government would still be true to its promise.
Over this, Mayor Gonzaga, who easily reclaimed his town's to seat when he was uncontested in the last elections assured he will keep the local government working for its completion in as much as he also has 10 civilian beneficiaries living in the center.
8th Division Commander Maj. Gen. Arthur Tabaquero, who turned over the project from the government o the beneficiaries also wished that the KKRC sustain and continue to be the symbol of unity and cooperation among the people of Bohol, and among the people in the region.
In his turn-over message, Gov. Aumentado vowed to continue and sustain the project by monitoring its full implementation, as Danao is under his district.
Gonzaga, heads the host town allowing 50 hectares of agricultural and residential lands for the construction of KR Kalayaan Resettlement Center (KKRC) also helped the government screen the ten families who shall live in the new community with 15 rebel returnees.
KKRC is implemented in line with the government's Social Integration Program for rebel returnees and by putting up the resettlement program, former governor Erico Aumentado hopes he could continue convincing rebels to lay down their arms and go back to the mainstream working for peace.
Danao has greatly reaped from the benefits of the project, he told media covering the turn over of the 18 units initially built by the government for the resettlement site.
But former guerilla and legendary fighter, Epitacio Ramirez, or Kumander Vargas, who represents the 15 rebel returnee beneficiaries of the KKRC has earlier aired his fear that government may discontinue support after the project turn-over.
Funded by the President's Social Fund and in collaboration with the Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process and the Provincial Government of Bohol, the P6 Million KKRC includes electrification, water system installation and the putting up of a multi-purpose pavement and community Center.
Government funds, specifically the P1.5M form OPAPP could not be downloaded as fast that only 18 of the original 25 houses were completed during the turn-over, says retired Provincial Social Welfare Officer Constancia Tunacao.
The incomplete development of the area has concerned Ramirez who wanted the assurance that the government would still be true to its promise.
Over this, Mayor Gonzaga, who easily reclaimed his town's to seat when he was uncontested in the last elections assured he will keep the local government working for its completion in as much as he also has 10 civilian beneficiaries living in the center.
8th Division Commander Maj. Gen. Arthur Tabaquero, who turned over the project from the government o the beneficiaries also wished that the KKRC sustain and continue to be the symbol of unity and cooperation among the people of Bohol, and among the people in the region.
In his turn-over message, Gov. Aumentado vowed to continue and sustain the project by monitoring its full implementation, as Danao is under his district.
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