THE government-run Zamboanga City State Polytechnic College (ZCSPC) has been converted to Zamboanga Peninsula Polytechnic State University (ZPPSU).

This as the Senate has approved on Tuesday, August 14, on third and final reading the bill seeking to establish, convert, and renamed the ZCSPC into a university.

The Senate version was sponsored by Senator Francis Escudero, the chairperson of the Senate’s Committee on Education, Arts and Culture.

In December of last year, first district Representative Celso Lobregat shepherd House Bill 6741 in the House of Representatives, which was an act converting the ZCSPC into a state university and to be known as the ZPPSU.

The bill was transmitted to the Senate on December 12, 2017 and was approved only last Tuesday, August 14.

Lobregat extended his utmost gratitude to Escudero and the committee members for sponsoring the approval of the proposed law.

“I am really thankful to Senator Escudero and to all the members of the Senate Committee on Education for passing the “Polytechnic Bill,” which became pending for quite sometime due to political developments in the Senate. I am very glad that after countless times that I lobbied to our senators up there, they finally approved it,” Lobregat said.

Lobregat said the passage of the Polytechnic Bill will also modify the teaching and budgetary appropriations of the school and to help provide their students a better quality and accessible education.

The lawmaker, as the father of the ZCSPC, was the one making the necessary representations in national government offices in order to procure the infrastructures, which is needed by the school to becoming the newest university here in Western Mindanao. (Bong Garcia/SunStar Philippines)