PGMA signs new EO strengthening rehab of Mindanao river basin
ICC Cotabato City (15 January) – President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo has signed a new Executive Order creating a Presidential Task Force on the rehabilitation and development of the heavily silted Mindanao River Basin which caused massive flooding in the Cotabato area last year.
The signing of Executive Order No. 753-A amending EO 753 creating the Presidential Task Force on the Mindanao River Basin Rehabilitation chaired by Archbishop Orlando Quevedo.
Archbishop Quevedo who received the copy from the President during her meeting with the task force at the VIP Lounge of the Tactical Operations Group, Philippine Air Force in nearby Awang Airport, Datu Odin Sinsuat town.
Quevedo said the new EO gave more teeth to the erstwhile “monitoring” functions of their task force.
“The new EO handed down authority to us. The DPWH is still the implementing agency but we can do something if there is some delay,” Quevedo pointed out.
Last October, the President gave an initial P31-million fund for flood control in Central Mindanao by allocating P20-million for the dredging of Rio Grande de Mindanao from the mouth of the new Delta Bridge, and P11-million for the Simuay Flood Control Project. (PIA 12)
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