Bohol Governor Distributes Rice in San Miguel Town – Bohol.News

Eight months after the Covid-19 pandemic paralyzed Bohol’s economy leaving more than 200,000 Boholanos jobless and inflicting an estimated total economic losses of at least P15 billion, Bohol Governor Arthur C. Yap visited San Miguel town on Thursday, November 05, 2020, and personally distributed eight kilos of rice to each of the families residing in the town’s 18 barangays, the Facebook page of the governor reported.

Bohol Gov. Arthur C. Yap in San Miguel town, Bohol. (Photo is dowloaded from the official Facebook page of Gov. Yap)

San Miguel is a 4th class municipality located in the northeastern side of Bohol province. From the capital city of Tagbilaran, it can be reached via the Corella-Loboc-Carmen route, an 80-plus kilometer travel by land.

The governor also distributed contact tracing cards which bear his name and signature and his 2019 gubernatorial campaign slogan, “Buhat ang Pasultion.” (Translation: Let the action speak)

One of the contact tracing cards distributed in the town of Loboc, Bohol. (This photo is publicly accessible on Facebook, a social media site.)

The widespread use of contact tracing cards has not been noted now that the province has recorded a total of 134 active Covid-19 cases as of the November 2, 2020 reporting of the provincial government.

Info graphic is provided by the Provincial Government of Bohol.

Meanwhile, San Miguel Mayor Virgilio Mendez, former director of the Philippines’ National Bureau of Investigation (NBI), and Bohol’s Second District Congressman Aris Aumentado witnessed the rice distribution in San Miguel town.

Former NBI Director and now Municipal Mayor of San Miguel, Bohol, Virgilio Mendez.

Aumentado, who is ending his third and last term (nine years) as legislature in the country’s House of Representatives, has been rumored to be a potential rival of Yap in the 2022 local elections.

Aris, son of the late governor and congressman Erico Boyles Aumentado, has repeatedly distanced himself from any talks of challenging the leadership of Gov. Yap in the 2022 polls.

Bohol’s Second District Representative Aris Aumentado.

At the rice distribution site, Yap handed over P1 million check to Mayor Mendez as the province’s assistance to the town’s waterworks-related project.