19/03/2019
Sen. Angara endorses Nepo,
vows to help fund city college
ANGELES CITY – Leading reelectionist Senator Sonny Angara on Monday endorsed Vice Mayor Bryan Nepomuceno to be the next Angeles city mayor even as the senator from Aurora province vowed to allocate needed funds for the improvement and operation of the City College of Angeles (CCA).
“Congratulations to the City College of Angeles at sa inyong magiging mayor, Mayor Bryan Nepomuceno,” Angara said in a video message he sent during an afternoon political rally in the city attended by some 3,000 supporters of Nepomuceno.
“Alam ko na unang-unang sa kaniyang plataporma ang quality at saka accessible education, at magtutulungan kami ni Mayor Bryan na mapondohan ang lahat ng pangangailangan ng City College of Angeles,” Angara said.
At the same Nepomuceno rally, a representative of former special presidential assistant B**g Go said that, if elected senator in the coming May mid-term elections, President Duterte’s closest top aide will help make funds available for the further upgrade of the Ospital Ning Angeles (ONA).
For his part, Nepomuceno expressed gratitude for the outpouring of support from national leaders for his priority programs on free college education and quality health services for the poor residents of Angeles City.
“With the support of Senator Angara and soon-to-be Senator B**g Go and the support all Angeleños, we will be able to deliver on our promises in the next three years of our administration,” Nepomuceno.
Angara has consistently placed in the top six winning candidates in the senatorial race based on national surveys of both Social Weather Stations (SWS) and Pulse Asia. Go, on the other hand, ranked No. 6 to No. 12 in the latest Pulse Asia survey conducted from Jan 26 t0 31 this year.
As the consensus frontrunner in the mayoral race, Nepomuceno earlier vowed to spend Php1 billion for the CCA and another Php1 billion for ONA.
“We will build new classrooms, offer more college courses, get more professors and educational equipment so that we can increase the number of students at the city college from 2,000 to 4,000 students,” Nepomuceno said.
“For ONA, we will expand it to have more hospital beds and doctors, launch a residency program, buy more medicines and supplies, ambulances and medical equipment and facilities so that we can improve ONA from being a Level 2 to a Level 3 public hospital,” Nepomuceno revealed.
Nepomuceno’s runningmate for vice mayor, incumbent city councilor Edu Pamintuan, said that “it is not only that some 1,128 poor students have already graduated from the CCA, most of them have immediately found good paying jobs because CCA graduates have a high employability rate of 70 to 90 percent.”
Pamintuan said that from 2011 to 2018 the city government spent some Php632 million for the city college including construction of its first multi-level school building worth Php320 million.
For the ONA, Nepomuceno said that from 2010 to 2018, the city government spent some Php1.215 billion for the public hospital where 95,421 patients were admitted for treatment, an additional 73,675 people treated in its Out-Patient Department, and another 59,678 dialysis patients at its Renal Care Unit—a legacy project of incumbent Mayor Edgardo Pamintuan.
Nepomuceno explained that “it is important that ONA be upgraded as a Level 3 public hospital so that we are allowed to admit and treat patients needing specialized treatment so we won’t have to transfer them to the JBL regional hospital in San Fernando.”
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