Special Capitol session in San Joaquin today: Miag-ao execs a no-show while other 1st district towns to grace SP-invite
Today's regular session will be in the Municipality of San Joaquin, Iloilo, 53 kilometers south of Iloilo City. This, as the 9th Iloilo Sanggunian Panlalawigan (SP) headed by Vice Governor Rolex Suplico chose said First District town for its second out-of-town special session.
Town councilors from other First District towns alongside the vice mayors were also invited to attend. The occasion will be used as opportunity for the SP body to reach out to town officials coming from the municipalities of Oton, Tigbauan, Tubungan, Giumbal, Igbaras and Miag-ao.
In a follow-up, The News Today (TNT) gathered that all towns with the sole exception of Miag-ao are a confirmed-go. As such, Miag-ao officials will be a no-show.
Not even one will make it from Miag-ao Municipal Government, TNT learned, with a "planning workshop" as the official excuse given.
The first out-of-town SP session was held April in the Fifth District with the Municipality of Ajuy as host.
Slated at 9:30 a.m., Vice Governor Rolex Suplico and the rest of the board members are expected to attend alongside an earlier event in San Joaquin.
The Capitol SP visit will coincide with the unveiling of a marker to remember the seven fallen boy scouts who lost their lives in a boy scout jamboree here that turned tragic back in October 2004.