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Tuesday, July 29, 2008
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Cotabato execs call for ‘bayanihan’ in weathering flood woes
By Noel Y. Punzalan and Malu C. Manar
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COTABATO CITY, July 8 (PNA) – Mayor Muslimin Sema here and former Sultan Kudarat, Shariff Kabunsuan Mayor Tocao Mastura has called on their constituents to enliven the spirit of “bayanihan” in weathering the flood calamity that severely their respective areas simultaneously in the aftermath of Typhoon Frank.
“This is the concern of everybody, so everybody must do their share of work to save our city,” Sema told newsmen here in an interview.
Echoing Sema’s call, Mastura called on village leaders to organize capable men for a bayanihan to rid the Rio Grande de Mindanao River of the thick carpets of water lilies that clog the waterways, causing some parts of the town and nearby
Recently, Army bomb experts attempted to split up with explosives a 10-foot thick water lily carpet clogging the
“The sad news is that more water lilies coming from upstream seem to add up to the thick mass of water lilies under the
