DAVAO DEL NORTE, Feb. 06 (PIA) --- The 1003rd Infantry Brigade in
Davao del Norte is making headway in rolling out its Peace and
Development Program (PDOP) as it nears in their schedule to declare
the province as “totally normalized” from insurgency.
In
an interview yesterday, Col. Harold Cabreros, commander of 1003re Inf.
Bde described the implementation of PDOP in hinterlands of Davao del
Norte as “successful” citing the confidence that his command elicited
from the people.
“Our PDOP is successful. We were able to clear the (insurgency)
affected (areas) particularly in Kapalong, New Corella and San Isidro
and Asuncion and with the help of the others stakeholders, the LGUs from
the provincial down to the barangay levels,” Cabreros said in an
interview after the Provincial Peace and Order Council (PPOC) Meeting
yesterday led by Provincial Governor Rodolfo P. Del Rosario.
Among the strategic activities done in target insurgency-affected
areas were livelihood projects, medical outreach activities,
distribution of tree seedlings, among others, with the help of some
non-government organizations among which were the Kiwanis Club and The
Fraternal Order of Eagles.
He also cited the Serbisyo Caravan of the Association of Regional
Executive of National Agencies (ARENA) XI conducted on Nov. 30 in
Gupitan, Kapalong as among the major outreach activities that had
helped the military bring back to the government the confidence of the
Indigenous Peoples (IP) communities.
In his report to the PPOC, the 1003rd troops also staged a drive to
train community youths on leadership, waged a gift-giving activity in
Christmas last year and even brought IP kids to dine with them at
Jollibee Tagum.
“Noong pasko, nanganga-roling ang ating mga sundalo sa bahay-bahay,
tapos sila ang namigay ng regalo,” (Last Christmas the soldiers went
caroling house to house and gave gifts) he said in the PPOC meeting
during which the 1003rd Inf. Bde. reported its accomplishment in 2014.
This quarter, the 453th Engineering Battalion of the 1003rd Inf. Bde
will construct a farm-to-market road in sitio Nasilaban in Talaingod and
in sitio Patel in Kapalong, providing access roads to peripheral IP
communities, he said.
“It is a welcome development that the populace has been waiting
for,” Cabreros said referring to residents of the far-flung communities
where the military engineering battalion will open up a road in tie-up
with LGUs.
As normalization efforts of the military is gaining ground, Cabreros
reported to PPOC that his command set to declare the entire province as
normalized by last week of March or early April this year.
Cabreros made it clear that only portions of outskirts Barangay
Gupitan in Kapalong and some sitios of Talaingod were eyed by his
command as focused areas of “normalization" operation.(PIA XI/Jeanevive
Duron-Abangan)
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