BARANGAY Kauswagan has again bagged the Best Lupong Tagapamayapa Award at the city level, making them an automatic contestant to the national search this December 8.
Although the village has won the award for 7 consecutive years now at the city and regional levels, it has yet to be named a national awardee.
It came close to bagging the top award last year, however, bagging the 1st runner up award in the national competitions.
Meanwhile, the City Government has doubled the prizes it will give to the 9 barangays in the city who participated and qualified in this year's search.
Third place village gets P70,000; 2nd placer gets 90,000; while the grand winner will get an amount worth P110,000.
The City Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) announced that Kauswagan has retained its top spot this year, followed by barangays Camaman-an, Canitoan, Nazareth, Gusa, Patag, Macabalan, Bugo, and barangay Lapasan bagged the last spot.
All of these barangays passed the 3 criteria for the search: the efficiency in the Operations of the Lupong Tagapamayapa, effectiveness in attaining the Katarungang Pambarangay (KP) objectives, and creativity and resourcefulness in the administration of KP.
City Mayor Oscar Moreno, for his part, challenged all the 80 barangays of Cagayan de Oro to join the competition, as this would keep them on the right track, especially on their efficiency in handling and solving conflicts in the barangay level.
"Imagine kung tanang 80 ka barangays sa Cagayan de Oro ma meet ang standards, the city will be a peaceful community, what your're doing is you are elevating the standards or hurdles of the society," Moreno said, at his weekly message at the City Hall flag raising on Monday, November 27.
"The lupon of the barangay is meant to do many things, one to make the community conflict-free, conflict sa igsoon sa mga silingan, which are the most painful conflict, decongest our courts with cases, and third, so that the community will be more progressive," he added.