Agusan del Sur Rep. “Ompong" Plaza recently vowed to deliver Mindanao from the lamentabletag of the “promised land.”For decades now, he said, Mindanao had been wallowing in poverty, lawlessness and misrepresentation in the government, adding that if the trend continued, Mindanao might take steps that would be disastrous to the nation.
In talks with newsmen in Dagupan City, the three-term congressman now eyeing a senatorial berth under the slate of former Pres. Joseph Estrada's Pwersa ng Masang Pilipino-PDP Laban, said that he would be a new and real voice of a forsaken Mindanao who would work out a new deal for Mindanao and not to allow it to separate from the Philippines.
Plaza stated that the coming May elections would be a defining moment for a Pilipino leader to champion the real and hard issues that had consigned Mindanao to where it is now, “a promised land.” He noted that the inequality that bedevils Mindanao should be the crux of Philippine governance, citing that Mindanao that had been contributing 30% to the Philippine economy had been getting only 9% from the national budget.
He appealed to Northern Luzon populace to help him correct the social imbalance through his candidacy in the senate to pave the road to a genuine unified nation. Plaza lamented that people in Mindanao failed to develop a culture that would boost their socio-economic development, blaming clannish attitude among the residents.
In this regard, he vowed to be different from the national leaders who had allowed Mindanao to be forever a victim of broken promises.(PR from the Office of Congressman Rodolfo "Ompong" Plaza)
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