Cotabato vice mayor is new head of Region 12 league of vice mayors

COTABATO CITY, Philippines – The vice mayor here is now president of central Mindanao’s league of vice mayors while a graduate of a local university topped in the latest engineering licensure examination in separate feats local residents are proud of.

Cotabato City Vice Mayor Graham Guiani Dumama won in Friday’s election for president of the league of vice mayors in Region 12.

The elections capped off Friday’s meeting in General Santos City of vice mayors from North Cotabato, Sultan Kudarat, South Cotabato and Sarangani provinces.

Also present in the meeting were vice mayors of Region 12 cities, Tacurong, Kidapawan, Koronadal and General Santos.

Halima Satol-Ibrahim, information officer of the local government, said Dumama’s presidency in the Region 12 league of vice mayors also highlights the improvements in governance here and the upbeat domestic security and investment climate.

Satol-Ibrahim said local officials and supporters of Dumama, nephew of incumbent Cotabato City Mayor Cynthia Guiani-Sayadi, were elated with the feat.

Barangay residents and members of the city’s business community took to Facebook their share of jubilation by posting on their timelines their optimism on the impact to the city’s economy and political growth of Dumama’s having got to the helm of the league’s leadership.

City residents were also fascinated and honored with how Elso Elumbaring ranked number one in the latest Philippine licensure examination for mechanical engineers.

Elumbaring graduated last March from the Notre Dame University in Cotabato City, the largest Catholic school in central Mindanao.

Residents of the 37 barangays here learned of Elumbaring’s having topped in the examination on Saturday morning from Catholic station dxMS, the city’s most popular radio outfit.

The university where Elumbaring finished a mechanical engineering course and dxMS, of the Notre Dame Broadcasting Corporation, are both owned by the Oblates of Mary Immaculate congregation.

Satol-Ibrahim said the city government was honored with the fame Elumbaring brought home.

“Cotabato City is so proud of him,” the office of the city mayor said in an official statement emailed to The STAR on Saturday morning.