Balanga, Bataan—The Sangguniang Panlalawigan, headed by Vice Governor Cris Garcia, welcomed its newest member, indigenous people representative Rosita Sison, during its regular session on Monday.
“This body recognizes our new member, Mrs. Rosita Sison,” the Vice Governor, as the provincial board’s presiding officer, said at the start of the session at the public library inside the capitol compound.
Garcia asked Sison, as the ex-officio board member, to give her message to other members of the SP.
“Please guide me given my inadequacy in education so that I can fully serve the Aetas of Bataan,” Sison said in the vernacular, to which members of the board listened approvingly.
The chairmanship of the SP Committee on Indigenous People was transferred to her, being the tribal chieftain of the Aeta community in Barangay Bangkal, Abucay.
Prior to her recognition, she submitted documents from the Department of the Interior and Local Government and the National Commission of Indigenous People to the provincial board as her credentials.
Sison took her oath before Gov. Abet Garcia last week.