House okays creation of 4 Tabuk barangays

                                                                                                                                                              Photo Credit: HeraldExpress

TABUK CITY, Kalinga  – The House of Representatives approved on third and final readings four separate bills authored by Rep. Allen Jesse C. Mangaoang for the legalization of the creation of two barangays and the creation of two additional barangays in this component city.

The approved bills include House Bill (HB) No. 383 that seeks to establish barangay Bulanao Norte, HB No. 384 which seeks to create barangay Ipil, HB No. 309 that seeks to separate the sitios of Guina-ang, Madopdop, Mallango, Lanlana and San Pablo from barangay Lacnog and constituting them into a separate and independent barangay to be known as barangay Lacnog West and HB No. 310 that seeks to separate the sitios Ileb, New Colayo village, Kinama and Nambaran Daya from barangay Nambaran and constituting them into barangay Nambaran East.

Mangaoang explained that Bulanao Norte and Ipil are regular barangays of the city and were created locally under Provincial Ordinance No. 2002-002 and Ordinance No. 2002-02, respectively, and their corporate existence came about after separate plebiscites for such purposes conducted by the Commission on Election (Comelec).

Under the said bills, Bulanao Norte shall be composed of Purok Datu, Purok Dos, Purok Tres and Sitio Linglingay, totaling an approximate area of 350 hectares while the suggested composition of Ipil will be Ipil, Mapaoay, Maledda, Matocnang, Sumadel, and Dananao. Herald Express

Mangaoang explained that considering that Bulanao Norte and Ipil were locally created, the said barangays have not been entitled to the regular Internal Revenue Allotment (IRA) from the national government and it was the provincial government that annually appropriated meagre funds for the personal services, maintenance and other operating expenses and capital outlay of the said barangays, thus, the need for a legislative action for their creation to be recognized by the national government to entitle them their IRA.

With the initial success of the bills in the House of Representatives, the lawmaker underscored that the two locally created barangays will no longer suffer from insufficiency of funds while the proposed creation of the other two barangays will enable them to chart their own course for their socio-economic development considering that Tabuk is the projected development area of the region due to the availability of lands and resources for development activities.

Mangaoang emphasized the conversion of Tabuk into a component city will definitely attract more population into the said proposed barangays, thus, the great need for more funding to address its growing problems for the benefit of its existing population.

With the impending filing of the counterpart bills in the Senate, Mangaoang disclosed that once signed into law by President Rodrigo Duterte, the component city will now have 44 legally created barangays that will cater to the growing population of the city due to the migration of people from the upland areas to the well-developed lowland communities.

Mangaoang said he will personally visit Senator Juan Edgardo Angara, chairman of the Senate committee on local government, to lobby for the enactment of the counterpart bills that will legitimize the creation of the four barangays in the developing component city. (HeraldExpress)