BANI—“It was my decision alone.”

This was the admission of Mayor Marcelo Navarro Jr. on the exclusion of Governor Amado Espino Jr. during the inauguration of the P7-million Core Shelter Project of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) last December 7 in Sitio Olanen, Dacap Sur, Bani.

“The reason I did not invite him was to spare both of us a public spectacle once again, like recently when I offered my hand in friendship and reconciliation with him but he spurned it publicly,” he said.

Another reason Navarro cited is that he took offense in the purported earlier statement of the governor that in the Core Shelter Project, “Ang mga bahay singliit at mukhang kubeta”.

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The mayor offered no apologies for not inviting the governor as he exculpated other parties for his decision.

DSWD Secretary Corazon Soliman accompanied the President to Bani to inaugurate the project, dubbed “Buruburti Ayat” (Spring of Love), which has 120 housing units for victims of typhoon ‘Emong’ which hit in May last year.

The project stands on a six-hectare lot provided by the municipal government while the DSWD gave P7 million to finance construction materials.

The United Nations World Food Program made available some P240,000 worth of rice which was used as a Food-for-Work component, benefiting 150 workers

The project is now being managed by a neighborhood association formed by the residents.

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