Isabela City mayor’s simplicity seen by constituents
BANGSAMORO NEWS UPDATES • 08:30 AM Wed Jul 3, 2019
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By:
John M. Unson
Mayor Sitti Djalia Turabin-Hataman eats street food peddled by a sidewalk vendor. (John Unson)
ISABELA CITY ---- For the first time in about 20 years, residents here saw Tuesday a new local chief executive eat street food sold by a lowly vendor right along a busy thoroughfare.
Isabela City Mayor Sitti Djalia Turabin-Hataman was on her way home from office when she asked her driver to pull over along a seaside road to buy and eat street food peddled by ambulant vendors.
The mayor seemed unmindful of security risks, as shown in Facebook photos posted by supporters, as if forgetting she is now an elected official who has to be conscious of her safety.
Her companions told reporters she was not worried of anything at all, knowing that it is safe for her to move around having been voted for by residents during the May 13 mayoral race in Isabela City.
Turabin-Hataman, wife of Basilan Rep. Mujiv Hataman, earlier said she will focus on a “healing process” meant to reunite the voters who were divided in their choices of mayoral candidates during the recent local polls.