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Calamity-hit areas get priority – Rody

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President Rodrigo Duterte urged his economic planners to prioritize other regions in terms of infrastructure projects and give less importance to Davao, his home province so that people would not say something against his administration.

READ: Rody to visit storm-hit CamSur; ‘Usman’ death toll rises to 122

“I told the planners, Dominguez and  Pernia to prioritize [other regions]… Never mind us. Make this place the last, if there is…” Duterte said during birthday celebration of Atty. Francis Tolentino last Thursday.

He said Mindanao did not suffer any serious calamities and had not been usually hit by typhoons, which he described as the number one enemy of agriculture.

“…if we can have peace in this generation, maybe the next, our children would not suffer so much hardship. I think we have to really find a way,” he said.

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“You’d notice that we from Davao [still have] everything in the blueprint. But that is really scheduled on the last may be years of my term, and you will just learn if we still have funds for the projects,” Duterte said.

“I  just want to assure you that we are governing for all Filipinos. I am no longer a politician. I cannot run anymore. And after this, I do not even know what I should or will be doing,” the President told the guests.

Also during the event, Duterte called on the people of Mindanao to support the Bangsamoro Organic Law in the upcoming plebiscite, which he said was an important component of the government’s push for lasting peace in the south.

“I hope and I pray that something good will come out of the BOL. Though the plebiscite is forthcoming, we have every reason to believe that it would pass the people’s will and I hope we could have peace because if not it will be hard for us,” Duterte said.

The President said that if the BOL did not make it,  he would just dedicate the remainder of his term in addressing violence in Mindanao.

Once ratified, the BOL will pave the way for the replacement of the ARMM with an MILF-led Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao.

READ: Calbayog under calamity state after ‘Usman’

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