PRESIDENT Gloria Macapagal Arroyo “tears the wrapping” of her Administration’s gift to Loboc’s most famous adopted son during his 44th birthday.
Department of Agriculture Secretary Arthur Cua Yap, who sought for the implementation of the Loboc Tourism Complex Docking Port Extension for Lobocanons, gets it whole from the hands of the highest official of the country on his big day.
Sources close to Yap revealed that the secretary was so elated that the President comes to Bohol to hand in Administration pet projects and celebrate with him on his birthday.
Loboc town adopted Yap as one of their own when he married a Lobocana.
Yap, who has seen the need to extend the tourism complex docking port wittingly tapped government funds coursed through the Philippine Fisheries Development Program and pushed for a multi-purpose fish landing and tourist embarking port for the famous river cruise activities here.
Yap was able to source out as much as P42M worth of such projects from the PFDP.
Along with the P4.775 million Loboc Fish Landing construction in Barangay Villaflor which was started last May are the P12.64 M Guindulman Municipal Fishport in Poblacion Guindulman, the P10.95 Million Valencia Municipal Fish port in barangay Canmanico and the P13.94 million improvement of the Loay Municipal Fish Port in Poblacion Loay, Bohol.
A former economics student of President Arroyo, Yap, who is a lawyer by profession holds a Juris Doctor’s degree at the School of Law of the Ateneo de Manila University.
His first government work was with the Philippine International Trading Corporation of the DTI in 2001, an Administrator of the National Food Authority and a brief stint as the Department of Agriculture secretary then.
Now holding the DA Secretary position on his second time, Sec. Yap has also been appointed as the Presidential Adviser for Job Creation and the Development Champion for the North Luzon Agribusiness Quadrangle (NLAQ).
One of the youngest Cabinet members, it would be no exaggeration if Yap is also referred to as one who helped erect the job generation legacy program of the President. (PIA)
