Housing units for fire victims

THE LOCAL government of Zamboanga is set to handover 138 housing units to victims of a huge fire in Barangay Labuan after Mayor Beng Climaco inspected the project.

Mayor Beng Climaco inspects the housing project in Barangay Labuan. (Giana Andrion)

The housing units were promised by President Rodrigo Duterte following his visit here in July 2018. The first phase of the project was completed by the National Housing Authority with the second phase still going on and will benefit 273 families affected by the conflagration. 

Climaco thanked Duterte for the joint housing project at the Sea Breeze Subdivision. The Climaco administration paid for the 36,062 square meters lot where the housing project is located. 

Late last year, the mayor also inaugurated some P175-million worth of infrastructure projects under the Zamboanga City Roadmap to Recovery and Reconstruction (Z3R) Program in Barangays Kasanyangan and Mariki.

The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) turned over three projects to the City Government on September 28.

The projects were the Valle Vista Subdivision’s access road amounting to P29,457,505.79 in Barangay Kasanyangan whose contractor was RD Interior Junior Construction; the Paniran-Kasanyangan access road also at Valle Vista Subdivision, amounting to P89,999,620.32, and the boardwalk in Barangay Mariki worth P55,910,901.21 built by Vic Lao Construction; and the energization project also in Barangay Mariki undertaken by the Zamboanga City Electric Cooperative. 

Beneficiaries of the Z3R Program thanked Climaco for aggressively pursuing the projects despite the health crisis due to the Covid-19 pandemic. (Zamboanga Post)