Sanito Ipil Zamboanga Sibugay Philippines

BARANGAY SANITO rose to prominence when it was chosen as one of the 2008 Gawad Galing Pook awardees in ceremony held at Malacanang on February 12, 2009.

Barangay Sanito was created in May 13, 1969 but the effort to create Sanito,the oldest sitio in Ipil with cultural importance, dates back to February 12,1967 and was introduced in the halls of the municipal council by then councilor Avelino Giduquio.

The innovations introduced by its new chairman, Jose Cabaral Tiu, elected in 2002, produced far - reaching results that the barangay is now working on several programs - among them: the Trichanthera Feed Production (for livestsock), the Sanito Urban Poor Housing project, a 10 - hectare housing project, the Barangay Water System, which would also supply water to the metropolitan Ipil area and the expansion of the Barangay Bagsakan to include a food plaza, a motorcab - jeepney terminal, and other projects of barangay impact. This was made possible through the mandate given to the incumbent barangay officials by the Sanito Barangay Government Code which endowed so much governmental powers and enormouys responsibilities upon them. Interviewed by the local media why they decided to venture into this kind or style of governance, Brgy Chair Susing (as he is fondly called)replied: "We have to do this after about years of neglect. The constitution and Local Government Code of 1991, as amended, have given us such powers so we must enforce it. "We cannot afford to lay idle while the problems - overpopulation, solid waste management, poverty, hunger, education, housing, nutrition, health and sanitation, and peace and order and getting serious every day. We have to fastrack our efforts to cathc up with these problems."

The barangay has a unique concept of governance - the participation of the people. They have adopted a program called the:"KAPIT BISIG STRUCTURE of GOVERNANCE in BARANGAY SANITO." There are a number of politicians who questioned the legality of the Sanito Barangay Government Code but no one dared to go to court for its nullification. The provincial government and the DILG acknowledged it. No less than Her Excellency Pres. Gloria Macapagal - Arroyo also acknowledged it in a speech before the Sibugaynons on February 20, 2009 when she declared that "what made your barangays outstanding is that Barangay Sanito is one of this year's Gawad Galing Pook awardees for harnessing resources at the barangay level by virtue of its Barangay Government Code."

History had it that Sanito was the site of the erarly barter trading in the Sultanate of Sibugay. Politician - historian Reubern Canoy said that he stunbled into this fact while in a a research on his book the History of Mindanao which is not yet off the press. Informations handed from generation to generation also revealed that the entire Metropolitan Ipil used to be part of sitio Sanito, then part of Barangay Bacalan of the Municipality of Kabasalan. (Ipil was officially created in July 26, 1949.)

Among the awards garnered by Barangay Sanmito were:

1. The Most Outstanding Barangay Chairman Award of 2005 (province -wide) 2. Regional awardee of the Search for Outstanding Barangay Bagsakan 3. Anti - Drug Award from the PNP 4. Most Outstanding Barangay Award (on solid waste management) by the provincial government

SANITO has an area of 1,433 has., more or less, and a population of about 10,000 people (2008 estimates). It has an internal revenue allotment of about 2,200 million (2008).

2009 Christian Abraham I. Tiu, RN