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 ==[[Tawi-Tawi News]]==
-'''P300 Million steel bridge to be completed in Bongao'''
+'''Tawi-Tawi Pursues Vital Infrastructure Projects'''
-*Source: http://www.zamboangatoday.ph/index.php/news/13-top-stories/8779-p300-million-steel-bridge-to-be-completed-in-bongao-.html
+*Source: http://www.mb.com.ph/articles/352266/tawitawi-pursues-vital-infrastructure-projects
-*Wednesday, 22 February 2012 11:10
+*February 23, 2012, 2:51pm
-:by  Nonong Santiago
+:by  NONOY E. LACSON
-BONGAO, Tawi-Tawi - Through the initiative of Gov. Sadikul Sahali, a P300 million modern steel bridge will soon be completed that will connect the island of Bongao to the mainland of Tawi-Tawi Province.
+BONGAO, Tawi-Tawi, Philippines – A group of private and government socio-economic managers here lauded Tawi-Tawi Governor Sadikul Sahali after he informed them that bridge projects, airport improvement, and farm-to-market roads are the most tangible projects that his administration have relentlessly pursued and successfully completed.
-Sahali disclosed the money for the multi million peso project came from the national funds of the Department of Public Works and Highways under the helm of former DPWH secretary Hermoheges Ebdane.
-The governor said the implementation of the bridge started early last year and was supposed to be completed on the month of July but was hampered due to incessant rains.
-“The local DPWH said the project is now 80 percent finished. I hope they will complete the project as soon as possible as this will surely boost the socio-economic activities of the whole province,” Sahali emphasized.
+Sahali told the group of economists that his administration is concentrating in the delivery of major infrastructure and support projects for the development of the province vis-à-vis with peace and order, particularly health services.
-Sahali boasted the bridge’s completion will greatly enhance economic development of the populace because trading will be done by land transportation and not by sea crafts.
-“Many times people living on the northern side of the island finds it difficult to transport their products by pumpboat because of big waves. With the bridge completion people can travel easier and faster using vehicles. So we can now travel from Bongao to the mainland and vice versa,” Sahali emphasized.
+“The delivery of basic services coupled with the needed infrastructure support projects, peace and order, and social services, including education, tops the list of my priority programs for the province,” he said.
-He said the main bridge has a length of 370 meters with two smaller steel bridges connecting the mainland to the island of Sanga-Sanga through the barangay of Lapid-Lapid.
+Sahali said he hopes to improve the living condition of the people in the province, and at the same time providing them with job opportunities and increased productivity.
-Sahali, who was also former mayor of Panglima Sugala Municiplaity  said once completed the bridge will serve as a vital link of Bongao and other municipalities that will surely enhance commerce and industry which will result to progress.
+Sahali also told the economists during a roundtable discussion at his office Wednesday that the 370-meter Sanga-Sanga, Lapid-Lapid steel bridge, the flagship project of the provincial government, is now 90 percent finished, and is expected to be completed in due time.
-The active and visionary governor has also appropriated millions of pesos for the concreting of farm-to market-roads in the province for easy transport of goods by farmers and traders.
-“If we have a modern bridge linking the province we should also have good roads for easy access,” Sahali continued.
+Sahali said he is pushing for the early completion of the P342-million bridge project in order to propel the socio-economic development of the province.
+He said the bridge would greatly improve trade and commerce in the entire province.
+The bridge, he said, is a joint effort of the provincial and local government units of the municipalities of Bongao and Panglima Sugala, and is funded by the Office of the President, the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH), the United States government, the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao hierarchy, and the provincial government of Tawi-Tawi.
+At present, the DPWH has prepared the road from Sanga-Sanga to Patal, up to Bangalian, at the same time upgraded the roads connecting Kapatagan to Lapid-Lapid, and Batu-Batu to Magsaggao up to Tarawakan in this capital town.
+“We all are happy that with the newly upgraded and improved Sanga-Sanga Airport, it can now accommodate bigger aircraft, like Airbus 320, to ferry a larger number of passengers,” Sahali said.
+With pride, Sahali also told the group that Tawi-Tawi is now included in the country’s Nautical Highway Program, and the Roll-On, Roll-Off (RO-RO) Port of Bongao is now connected with the major ports in the region.
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