Special Assistant to the President Christopher Lawrence “Bong” Go has called on newly elected 5,000 barangay officials of Tarlac to join the government’s campaign to solve the big problems of the country.
Go made an appeal during the recent mass oathtaking ceremony of barangay officials in Tarlac City, where he called for support for President Rodrigo Duterte’s campaigns against illegal drugs, corruption, and criminality.
Go told the barangay officials that as “foot soldiers” of the government in their localities, they know everybody and everything that is going in their areas of responsibility.
Go added that for them to ignore this is a dereliction of their duties.
“Your cooperation and support would be a big help in resolving the main problems of the country like illegal drugs, graft and corruption and criminalities,” he said.
Go urged the local barangay officials to unite and strive for the good of the communities and the government in general for the benefit of the people.
During the mass oath taking, Tarlac Gov. Susan Yap also urged the barangay officials to improve their services so that these can be felt by their constituents.
Yap said that barangays must improve their health, education, infrastructure, and livelihoods services in their respective localities for the benefit of the people.
The governor added that although the barangay has minimal budget, this shouldn’t be reason not to elevate their services to the people.
“You should know several programs of the province, regional and national offices that help barangays, financial, livelihood projects, and others that improve all the villages of the country,” she said.
Yap added these projects and assistance must be implemented with full transparency and accountability.
