Thank you President Duterte

MAYOR BENG Climaco led officials in the ground breaking ceremony of a housing project promised by President Rodrigo Duterte to the victims of a huge fire in Barangay Labuan in July 2018.

Mayor Beng Climaco and NHA District Manager Al Indanan and Barangay Labuan chairman Ronaldo Maravilla lead the ground breaking ceremony for a P163-million housing project that will benefit some 273 families who were displaced by the July 2018 fire. (Eugene Elnar)

Climaco said the housing units will benefit families affected by the conflagration and she thanked Duterte for the project. “It is a promise fulfilled. Muchisimas gracias President Duterte for fulfilling your promise to help fire-hit families in Labuan to build back better,” she said during the recent ceremony. 

Climaco and Al Indanan, of the National Housing Authority, together with Barangay Labuan chairman Ronaldo Maravilla, including Rep. Jawo Jimenez were among those who joined the ground breaking at the Sea Breeze Subdivision. 

The P163.78 million project is being undertaken by the NHA through the Nurben Engineering and Building Construction and sits in a 36,062 square meter lot purchased by the City Government. 

The project will house the remaining 273 families out of 411 families displaced by the fire. The phase 1 of the project at the same area has 138 housing units which are expected to be inaugurated next year. 

Duterte visited Labuan on July 26, 2018 just a few days after the fire razed a neighborhood in the area and promised those displaced by the blaze that he would build them new homes. (Zamboanga Post)