Bontoc receives National ADAC Performance Marker Award

Photo Courtesy || Municipality of Bontoc FB

Cordillera - The municipality of Bontoc is one of only three municipalities in Mountain Province that received the 2019 National Anti-Drug Abuse Council (ADAC) Performance Award Marker.

The other awardees in Mountain Province are the municipalities of Sadanga under the leadership of Mayor Gabino Ganggangan and Paracelis headed by Mayor Marcos Ayangwa.

The National ADAC Performance Award is given to LGUs that achieve an adjectival rating of Ideal (high functionality) based on the 2018 ADAC Performance Audit.

Bontoc garnered a score of 95 functionality points with its evident efforts to implement, coordinate and complement the national government's measures to eradicate the country's illegal drugs problem.

Bontoc Mayor Franklin Odsey who is also the Chairperson of the Municipal Anti –Drug Abuse Council (MADAC) credited the award to the collaborative efforts of the partner national government agencies, religious sectors, other stakeholders, and the community.

Among the notable program of the capital town through its MADAC is the Community Based Treatment Program known as the Bontoc Emergency Response to Addiction (BonTERA) that it offers to drug surrenderers.

The National (ADAC) Performance Award Marker was turned over by PCAPT Barnard Bone Navarra, the Chief of Police of Bontoc Municipal Police Station (MPS) to Mayor Odsey on September 24, 2020, at the Bontoc Municipal Capitol. Also present to witness the turnover of award was Sangguniang Bayan member Jerome Tudlong, Jr.

source || Municipality of Bontoc FB

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Congratulations Mt. Province for being recognized as one of the 2019 National ADAC Performance Award

Photo Courtesy || Mt. Province PIO

Cordillera - The local government of Mountain Province has been recognized by the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) as one of the 2019 National Anti-Drug Abuse Council (ADAC) Performance Awardee in the recently concluded ADAC Performance Audit. 

For its exemplary efforts and strong support of the government's national anti-drug program, Mt. Province had been conferred this year the 2019 ADAC Ideal Performance Award. 

According to the Mt. Province PIO, the province was the only provincial ADAC in Cordillera region that achieved the 2019 ADAC national awards alongside with the municipality of Barlig and Bauko, Mt. Province and the municipality of Tineg, Abra. 

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The National ADAC Performance Award recognizes Local Governments exemplary efforts in complementing the national government's efforts in eradicating the country from illegal drugs.

"The national government's recognition to our exemplary efforts in the performance of our duties shows the province's very strong support to the current administration's efforts in curbing and ending the proliferation of illegal drugs. Let us continue all the good which we have started," Mt. Province Governor Bonifacio C. Lacwasan, Jr. said. 

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Based of the 2019 ADAC Performance Audit results, Mt. Province garnered Ideal score of 100 points.

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