DAVAO CITY, Philippines (Mindanao Examiner / Oct. 19, 2008) - The Department of Public Works and Highways in Mindanao said it will continue with the P226.9 million road project connecting Davao del Norte with Bukidnon provinces despite various threats posed by the New People’s Army.
The rebels have threatened to disrupt the project after its contractors refused to pay revolutionary taxes.
DPWH Secretary Hermogenes Ebdane Jr. and Southern Mindanao Regional Director Jerome Dela Rosa said 20 percent of the project is already completed. The road project, which is expected to be finished, next year, is included among the Super Region projects of President Gloria Arroyo.
Lt. Col. Rolando Bautista, spokesman of the Army’s 10th Infantry Division, said troops were deployed to protect the project from NPA attacks.
Davao del Norte Governor Rodolfo del Rosario said the project serves as a profound evidence of Arroyo putting a hand on the economic policies and projects she asserted in her State of the Nation Address.
The road also serves as an alternate route to the Davao-Calinan-Bukidnon and Agusan-Davao routes. It would also connect two industrial centers in the southern Philippines - Davao and Cagayan de Oro cities. (Romy Bwaga)
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