By Tito Natividad Fiel
Kauswagan, Lanao del Norte, Philippines – Governor Khalid Quibranza Dimaporo here has urged the Municipal Mayors throughout the province to be responsible and fair their governance to Muslims and Christians.
In his keynote speech Friday morning at the Gym here on the Culmination of the Mindanao Week of Peace spearheaded by Civil Society Organization Lanao Partnership for Peace and Development in cooperation with the Provincial and Municipal Government, Dimaporo stressed that his governance is a government for all.
Dimaporo said being a Muslim he supported all activities and festivities whether Muslim and Christian celebration, showing that his government in the province is a government for all not just for Muslim but for the Christian, the Indigenous People and other faith as well.
“Every year the province is sending contestant and other representative for “Sinulog” a Roman Catholic Christian festivity to show that my governance is responsive and responsible to different faith and supporting to flourish even those Christian faith”, Governor Dimaporo stressed.
He said in the celebration of “Ed’l Adha” which a next to ramadhan, the province has distributed a huge amount of beef food to Muslims but included to the Christian communities showing his desire to make fair and balance all the people regardless of faith, tribes, creed, races and principle in life.
He has challenged all the Mayors of the entire province especially to Mayor Romel C. Arnado here the host of the said celebration to do the same being a Christian to do also for Muslims and Christians to reduce the feeling of neglected from both Christians and Muslims.
Mayor Romel C. Arnado on his welcome remarks for the activity reiterated that discrimination is a source of violence, so his government is doing for development that will address the reduction of poverty and difficulty and minimize the rate of violence and conflict.
He lauded the Pakigdait Incorporated through its director Musa Mohamad Sanguila, the Civil Society Organization Lanao Partnership for Peace and Development together with the provincial government for bringing the culmination of the celebration here in Kauswagan to show that this Municipality is quietly peaceful and moving.
