Mayor Cezar T. Quiambao acknowledged the volunteer reformists of the town in their decision to continue moving forward and taking the right track to denounce the illegal drug-related activities they once got involved in.

Mayor Quiambao, together with Bayambang Police Station officer-in-charge Police Superintendent Cirilo Acosta, Jr., led the oath-taking ceremony of the newly-elected officers of reformists last Tuesday, February 7, at the Bayambang National High School Gymnasium.

“You can always choose to start anew. You can always choose to stand up after you fall down,” Quiambao said, referring to those who might still harbor second thoughts in giving up the use of illegal drugs once and for all.

Mayor Quiambao also extolled the vital role of the newly-elected officers in their proactive campaign in the fight against drugs, thus helping attain peace and order among their constituency and in the municipality.

“Your past should not define who you are. Your weakness should not define who you are,” Quiambao reiterated as he vowed his full support to all reformists of the town.

With this development, Quiambao called on all concerned groups, namely the PNP, LGU, academic community, religious groups, and the reformists themselves to continue the cooperation and unity they had exhibited to make the town of Bayambang drug-free.

Towards the end, the local chief executive bared that Bayambang will have its first-ever rehabilitation center to be located in San Gabriel 1^st. However, he said he was still awaiting the confirmation and approval from the officials of the said barangay.

PSupt. Acosta, on the other hand, said that the activity was aimed at giving the elected reformist officers a responsibility and to serve as information disseminators of the Municipal Anti-Drug Abuse Council (MADAC) in their respective barangays, thus preventing them from engaging in illegal activities again.

Acosta said the move was part of the Department of Interior and Local Government’s Mamamayang Ayaw sa Anomalya, Mamamayang Ayaw sa Iligal na Droga (MASA MASID) campaign designed to intensify the government’s campaign against drugs. (Bayambang PIO/Media Affairs Office)