LA TRINIDAD, Benguet – Benguet caretaker congressman and Anti-Crime and Terrorism through Community Involvement and Support (ACT-CIS) Party-list Rep. Eric Yap vowed to source out funds to bankroll the proposed construction of the permanent headquarters of the Benguet Provincial Police Office that will be located outside the compound of the Police Regional Office (PRO) in the Cordillera that will help in decongesting the regi9onal headquarters.
Yap, who chairs the powerful House committee on appropriations, stated that he is just waiting the detailed estimates and program of work for the said project so that he will be able to source out the needed funds to ensure the immediate implementation of the same probably by next year.
Earlier, the provincial government donated a 1,000-swuare meter lot in barangay Poblacion here that will serve as the site where the provincial police headquarters will be constructed to ensure that the same will have a permanent home.
On the part of the Philippine National Police (PNP), Maj. Gen. Rodolfo Azurin, Jr., Director for Controllership, announced that the PNP will provide a counterpart for the project by ensuring that funds for the fencing of the property that was donated by the provincial headquarters to the Benguet Provincial Police Office will be available upon request to prevent the same from being encroached upon while the headquarters is not being built.
Congressman Yap underscored that he will do his best to bring to Benguet various development projects that will be funded by concerned government agencies to help in spurring growth and development in the future because what matters is that the people should be able to feel the impact of the presence of government in their midst through the various interventions that are being put in place.
He pointed out that he will not hesitate to bring to the attention of concerned government agencies the need for Benguet to be provided with a bigger share from the development projects being funded by the government because the people need the same to further enhance their economic activities that will contribute in uplifting the living condition of the residents, especially those in remote villages.
Aside from allowing people to have access to the numerous assistance from grams of different government agencies, the lawmaker was able to include in the annual budget of the public works department allocations for road opening, farm to market road among other major infrastructure projects that will be instrumental in spurring economic activities in the countryside in the future.
The Benguet caretaker congressman emphasized that he understands the predicament of people being deprived of the basic services from the government that is why it is important that someone like him will be able to make the appropriate representations with the people in Manila for them to be appraised of the situation on the ground so that they will be able to feel the presence of government in their midst catering to part of their needs for them to hurdle the challenges of the ongoing Corona Virus Disease (COVID) 2019 pandemic..
By Hent