Ombudsman offers caravan of services to Antique towns

By Margie L. Gadian

Saturday 1st of September 2012

SAN JOSE, Antique, Sept 1 (PIA) -- The Office of the Ombudsman in Visayas will again bring a caravan of government services to Antique towns particularly the northern municipalities on September 27 and 28.

In a coordinating meeting by the Office of the Ombudsman with the League of Municipalities of the Philippines (LMP) headed by Mayor Rony L. Molina of San Jose, Evangeline Nuñal, caravan project coordinator, briefed the mayors about the objectives of this activity which hopes to bridge the gap of national government agencies and the local government units.

It will also monitor if services of government agencies are reaching the grassroots.

“Through convergence of efforts of the various agencies, we make people feel that the government is working together to serve them better,” Nuñal said.

For the past five years, the Ombudsman already had seven caravans of government services and served 16,528 people in the different provinces in Region 6.

Aside from the government services, there will also be medical and dental services and a local chief executives (LCE) forum on partnership in good governance to be attended by the LCEs of the towns and province.

Also to be taken up is a public accountability seminar for municipal employees and barangay captains.

Another caravan is scheduled in November for the southern part of Antique.

Expected to grace these activities is the Ombudsman in the Visayas, Pelagio S. Apostol, who is an Antiqueño. (JCM/MLG-PIA6, Antique)