Peaceful Lamitan Yuletide Season park launched
BANGSAMORO NEWS UPDATES • 15:15 PM Wed Dec 4, 2019
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By:
John M. Unson
Lamitan City’s amusement park, lights glittering at nighttime. (Contributed)
COTABATO CITY --- Thousands attended the launching this week of the enchanted Yuletide Season amusement park in the surroundings of the local government center in the now peaceful Lamitan City.
Lamitan City, covering more than 40 barangays, is capital of the now markedly peaceful Basilan province, now touted as the new investment frontier of the Bangsamoro region.
Several barangays in Lamitan City were former hotbeds of terror activities of the Abu Sayyaf are now quiet “peace zones,” free from violent Islamic extremists.
The central office of the Department of the Interior and Local Government awarded the Lamitan City local government unit with the Seal of Good Local Governance four times from 2016 to 2019 for efficiency and in recognition of its continuing promotion of Muslim-Christian solidarity. []