Senate President Aquilino “Koko” Pimentel lll on Sunday vowed to support the administration’s development roadmap that includes reforms and seeks to reduce poverty while creating more jobs via regional expansion.
Pimentel said the proposed Philippine Development Plan 2017-2022 of the National Economic Development Authority will get the needed legislative boost from the Senate.
“It concretizes the Duterte administration’s eight-point economic agenda and its long-term AmBisyon Natin 2040 into strategies as well as specific programs and activities implementing new policies,” Pimentel said.
Although Neda is still awaiting feedback and inputs from the public before coming up with its final version of the PDP 2017-2022, the Plan puts emphasis on the development of regional centers, including Cagayan de Oro City.
The new impetus for regional growth is set to make Cagayan de Oro the country’s fourth economic center, and the second in Mindanao, after Manila, Metro Cebu, and Metro Davao.
“I will strongly and actively support this plan of building a Metro Cagayan de Oro [CDO]all the way,” Pimentel said.