In an attempt to mark the end of the year with a union that seeks harmony, solidarity and bilateral understanding, the City of Tagum, through its local government unit, recently renewed its sisterhood ties with the rice granary of Davao Oriental, Municipality of Banaybanay, concurrent to the latter’s year-end gathering held at Big 8 Corporate Hotel.
Tagum City Mayor Allan Rellon and Municipality of Banaybanay Mayor Adalia Lopez-Tambuang signed the sisterhood agreement along with Vice Mayors Geterito Gementiza of Tagum and Jose Amor Bagayas of Banaybanay as witnessed by a number of officials and department heads from both of the LGUs.
The reestablishment of the sisterhood ties is line with the mutual vision of creating an atmosphere in which economic dynamism, infrastructure development, agricultural resiliency, and government efficiency can be strongly implemented and strengthened.
Mayor Rellon found the two local governments’ coming-together as a proactive approach of enlarging their programs and projects especially that the agreement is anchored on the collaboration of both of the LGUs’ best practices.
Under the agreement, Tagum and Banaybanay will build and promote cooperative government works directed but not limited to economy, commerce, investment, business, culture and the arts, industry and other areas of cooperation that both parties may agree upon.
Meanwhile, Mayor Tambuang expressed her optimism to the rekindling of Banaybanay and Tagum City. She quipped that this relationship, which started in 2004, will signify greater success and will last until the end of their political terms in 2022.
This is the second time during the Rellon-Gementiza Administration that the City Government of Tagum inked a sisterhood agreement with another LGU. November last 2014, Malaybalay in Bukidnon became Tagum’s sister-city.
The ceremony was highlighted with the exchange of tokens and local products between the two newly instituted sister LGUs, which signaled the reaching of common goals and perspectives. Roy Banias/ CIO Tagum
