MANKAYAN, Benguet– The municipal government will purchase eight multi-use vehicles to further improve the delivery of basic services and enhance mobility in and out of the municipality.
Mayor Frenzel A. Ayong said that of these, six vehicles will be given to the town’s upland barangays while 1 each will be given to the rural health unit and the municipal government.
He added the municipal government has communicated to the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) seeking authority to allow the municipality to purchase the much needed multi-use vehicles to be used for various purposes.
The municipal chief executive disclosed the barangays to be issued the multi-use vehicles include Balili, Tabio, Bulalacao, Guinaoang, Taneg and Suyoc.
See more stories:
“We were able to sustain our efforts to source out available resources to procure the much needed vehicles to add up to our existing fleet so that there will be uninterrupted delivery of basic services and improve mobility of the people in and out of the different barangays,” Mayor Ayong stressed.
He explained the provision of the multi-use vehicles to the upland barangays is part of the municipal government’s efforts to express gratitude to the vegetable farmers from the said communities who had been voluntarily donating their vegetable produce to the people in different villages in the municipality who are still in need of relief assistance.
According to him, the municipal governments is steadfast in continuously improving the delivery of basic services to the people living in the different barangays because the ongoing Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic warrants concerned government agencies in close coordination with the provinces, municipalities and barangays, to cascade to the grassroots level the appropriate services that will allow them to cope with the serious negative effects of the prevailing crisis situation.
Mayor Ayong called on the barangays that will be issued the multi-use vehicles to maximize the use of the same for the mobility of people in and out of their barangays for these constituents to attend to their essential transactions because of the limited public transportation following the suspension of mass public transport since the start of the implementation of the community quarantine.
He expressed his gratitude to the barangay officials of the town’s 12 barangays for their continuous support and cooperation to the ongoing strict implementation of community quarantine guidelines to combat the spread of the deadly virus in the municipality and for actively bringing to the attention of concerned authorities the issues and concerns of the people in their areas of jurisdiction that warrant appropriate action from concerned government agencies and the municipal government.
By Hent
You might also like:
