Oca: "Let's Make Cagayan de Oro A Drug-free City"

By Mona Lagbas

April 8, 2025, Cagayan de Oro City_In a grassroots huddle with residents of the West Bound terminal in Barangay Bulua Tuesday, former city mayor Oscar Moreno emphasized the urgent need to make CdeO drug-free.

Moreno, describing Cagayan de Oro as a highly urbanized city, said that his vision of the metropolization of the regional capital, which will include some neighboring towns and cities of Misamis Oriental, Lanao del Norte and Bukidnon, would be hindered because of the current peace and order situation.

Moreno, who is seeking a comeback as local chief executive, said that the future and aspirations of the youth sector will go to naught if the illegal drugs menace prevails in the city.

Moreno, a lawyer by profession, added that he has long been standing against extrajudicial killings even as he hoped that Kagay-anon families' members would no longer be victims of illegal drugs.

Former city councilor Zaldy shakes hands with a west bound terminal resident Tuesday. Ocon is running as Vice Mayor of comebacking local chief executive Oscar Moreno next month.

Moreno said that when elected as city mayor this May, his administration will find ways that extrajudicial killings will not happen in Cagayan de Oro.

Joining Moreno in Tuesday's pulong-pulong were his Vice mayoral bet Zaldy Ocon, incumbent and reelectionist city councilor Yvy Emano and

Sangguniang Panglungsod aspirant Jasmin Borja.