TABUK CITY, Kalinga – Baguio City Representative-elect Mauricio G. Domogan rallied the youth to strive for excellence in their respective endeavors to contribute in sustaining the city’s robust development and elevate its status to a higher level either as an independent component city or a highly urbanized city in the future.
Domogan was one of the guests during the Farmers, Cooperatives, Business and Employment Sector Day that was part of the activities lined up by the local government to celebrate Tabuk’s 75th founding anniversary as a municipality and 24th Matagoan festival.
He pointed out during his 20-minute speech that local officials and tribal elders will be more than happy if the youth will be able to surpass their respective achievements because it is part of development coupled with the emergence of technology that has made life easier to maneuver, thus, there is no reason for the younger ones to become better than their predecessors.
The 6-term mayor and 3-term congressman appreciated the robust growth and development of Tabuk which was achieved through the tireless efforts of former and present leaders, now under the stewardship of Mayor Darwin C. Estran֮ero, that made the quiet town to a thriving component city filled with numerous business potentials.
He also narrated the difficulties that he encountered when he had been visiting Tabuk from 1974 to the early 1980s to represent his clients in various litigations where the road leading to the then municipality was not yet as good compared to the current state of the roads aside from the peace and order issues besetting the locality then.
According to him, he endured travelling to Tabuk via cutting trips from San Jose, Nueva Ecija that really made the previous travels to the locality very difficult and challenging that time unlike in the current situation where there are already numerous public transport that ply the Tabuk route daily.
Domogan also lauded the farmers, cooperative and business sector for having been instrumental in Tabuk’s growth into a thriving component city and even to a much larger situation in the future that Tabuk will be placed considering the enormous growth that the city was able to gain through the past several decades.
He claimed that the said sectors serve as the city’s backbone of development, thus, the need for them to be able to embrace the necessary innovations that will allow them to hurdle the current challenges of the present times and for them to contribute in significantly creating better employment, economic and livelihood opportunities for the people.
Tabuk was established as a municipality on June 23, 1950 by virtue of Republic Act (RA) 533 and as a component city by virtue of RA 9404 which was ratified by the people on June 24, 2007.
Further, Tabuk has a land area of more than 701 square kilometers that makes it as the third largest city in the country behind Davao and Ilagan, respectively.
Domogan supported the cityhood of Tabuk when he was a member of the House of Representative with former Kalinga Rep. Lawrence Wacnang, who was the author of the bill that established Tabuk as a component city of Kalinga. By HENT
