by Irma A. Guhit
SORSOGON CITY, OCTOBER 20 (PIA)....Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) Secretary , Jessie Robredo keynoted the 117th founding anniversary of the province of Sorsogon commemorated through the Kasanggayahan Festival 2011 started with a concelebrated mass held at the provincial Gymnasium last Monday.
Secretary Robredo met the local government officials and other heads of offices from both the provincial and national agencies here at the Sorsogon Provincial Training Center where he delivered his keynote message.
Speaking in his native dialect, the secretary stressed reasons why people should celebrate specially in an occasion like the Kasanggayahan Festival 2011, the event that commemorates the separation of the province of Sorsogon to become independent from the province of Albay 117 years ago.
"Nata ta kinakaipuhan kita mag selebrar kan fiesta kapareho kan Kasanggayahan Festival 2011? Ano an dapat na ipagselebrar sa saro na fiesta? (Why do we have to celebrate in a fiesta like Kasanggayahan Festival 2011? What is there about to celebrate in a fiesta? ," the secretary stressed in his plain Bicol words.
According to the Secretary there should always be good significant reasons to celebrate in a fiesta and why we should celebrate a fiesta it should not only focus on the usual parade, beauty pageant and other add on trimmings of color and splendor but should zero in to what it has achieved through the years..
"People should celebrate when we can see that in governance we envision ourselves as a people working together to achieve a common goal specially through the leaders that we have given our trust to run our government providing what the constituency expect of them in terms of development and the provisions of right services." Robredo explained.
He said that the good reason to celebrate a fiesta like this festival is when these effective good leaders can institute the right mechanisms in governance thereby making the people happy because they are well served and people in the same manner become responsible citizens.
Robredo said, "An kinakaipuhan kan satuyang pag gogobyerno sa Pilipinas iyo so mga lideres na matitibay. Mga lideres na mga tultul.Ta may mga lideres na matitibay pero bako tultul asin may mga lideres man na mga tultul pero bako man na matitibay. An kinakaipuhan ta su mga lideres na mga matitibay asin tultul, na nag seserbisyo para sa ikaka asenso kan lugar asin mga tawo." (What we need in government are leaders that are efficient. Leaders that are righteous. Because there are leaders who are efficient but are not righteous and leaders who are righteous but not efficient. What we need really are public servants who are righteous and effective, who serve for the development of the place and its people.)
He also underscored the need to unify and work towards what the current administration of President Aquino hopes to achieve and that all should do their share for the country.
The significance of a celebration is also a form of thanksgiving according to Robredo, and hopefully he explained that all festivals should really show the right reasons to celebrate. It should not just be for entertainment but an avenue where development can be showcased as achieved and felt where leadership is better valued and where these leaders can provide the right reasons for the constituency to celebrate.(PIA-SORSOGON)
SORSOGON CITY, OCTOBER 20 (PIA)....Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) Secretary , Jessie Robredo keynoted the 117th founding anniversary of the province of Sorsogon commemorated through the Kasanggayahan Festival 2011 started with a concelebrated mass held at the provincial Gymnasium last Monday.
Secretary Robredo met the local government officials and other heads of offices from both the provincial and national agencies here at the Sorsogon Provincial Training Center where he delivered his keynote message.
Speaking in his native dialect, the secretary stressed reasons why people should celebrate specially in an occasion like the Kasanggayahan Festival 2011, the event that commemorates the separation of the province of Sorsogon to become independent from the province of Albay 117 years ago.
"Nata ta kinakaipuhan kita mag selebrar kan fiesta kapareho kan Kasanggayahan Festival 2011? Ano an dapat na ipagselebrar sa saro na fiesta? (Why do we have to celebrate in a fiesta like Kasanggayahan Festival 2011? What is there about to celebrate in a fiesta? ," the secretary stressed in his plain Bicol words.
According to the Secretary there should always be good significant reasons to celebrate in a fiesta and why we should celebrate a fiesta it should not only focus on the usual parade, beauty pageant and other add on trimmings of color and splendor but should zero in to what it has achieved through the years..
"People should celebrate when we can see that in governance we envision ourselves as a people working together to achieve a common goal specially through the leaders that we have given our trust to run our government providing what the constituency expect of them in terms of development and the provisions of right services." Robredo explained.
He said that the good reason to celebrate a fiesta like this festival is when these effective good leaders can institute the right mechanisms in governance thereby making the people happy because they are well served and people in the same manner become responsible citizens.
Robredo said, "An kinakaipuhan kan satuyang pag gogobyerno sa Pilipinas iyo so mga lideres na matitibay. Mga lideres na mga tultul.Ta may mga lideres na matitibay pero bako tultul asin may mga lideres man na mga tultul pero bako man na matitibay. An kinakaipuhan ta su mga lideres na mga matitibay asin tultul, na nag seserbisyo para sa ikaka asenso kan lugar asin mga tawo." (What we need in government are leaders that are efficient. Leaders that are righteous. Because there are leaders who are efficient but are not righteous and leaders who are righteous but not efficient. What we need really are public servants who are righteous and effective, who serve for the development of the place and its people.)
He also underscored the need to unify and work towards what the current administration of President Aquino hopes to achieve and that all should do their share for the country.
The significance of a celebration is also a form of thanksgiving according to Robredo, and hopefully he explained that all festivals should really show the right reasons to celebrate. It should not just be for entertainment but an avenue where development can be showcased as achieved and felt where leadership is better valued and where these leaders can provide the right reasons for the constituency to celebrate.(PIA-SORSOGON)
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