NGC to host RDC Best Practices Awarding
BACOLOD CITY -- The City of Bacolod through Mayor Evelio Leonardia has granted the request of the regional officials to host the Regional Best Practices Awarding Ceremony initiated by the Regional Development Council (RDC) which is scheduled on April 14.
Leonardia said he is very proud to host the affair with no less than his friend Antique Governor Salvacion Perez who requested him.
“Because the awarding focuses on the Best Parctices it should be held in the ‘best place’ like Bacolod with the best government center in the country,” Leonardia quoted the statement from the governor.
Governor Perez, who delivered her State of the Regional Address yesterday at L’Fisher Hotel, has all the praises for the new Government as she described it as London of the Philippines.
Earlier, the lawyers of the Philippines comprising the members of the Integrated Bar of the Philippines (IBP) described the NGC as the White House of the Philippines wherein the governor also agreed.
Perez said to Leonardia in an ambush interview that she will be an ‘agent’ of Bacolod City in tourism promotion by way of bringing the governors here in the scheduled event of the RDC.
“It would not only be a reunion of Western Visayas governors but a convergence of Visayas governors and mayors that includes Eastern and Central Visayas,” Perez said.
Mayor Leonardia, on the other hand, said it is very inspiring and heartening because the people around appreciate his realized dream to have a government center.
“As far as I know, only one person (referring to his political opponent Cong. Monico Puentevella) doesn’t like the NGC but he is the only one against the people of Bacolod who make proud of it,” he added.
He considered the NGC as a landmark and another identity for the city. Tourists who came to Bacolod do not have a complete tour to the city if they did not go to the New Government Center.
It is timely also to host the awarding ceremony of RDC according to Mayor Leonardia because they are preparing for its inauguration this June.
“The presence of the Visayas governors, mayors and other officials is a manifestation that seas do not divide us but interconnects us,” Leonardia stressed.