BAYOMBONG, Nueva Vizcaya: The Regional Trial Court (RTC) in Tuguegarao City has granted the petition of Cagayan Gov. Manuel Mamba for mandamus to compel the Sangguniang Panlalawigan (provincial board) to enact an ordinance to appropriate the province’s P3 billion budget for 2017.

Judge Marivic Cacatian-Beltran of RTC-Branch 3 in a 14-page decision dated August 14 directed Vice Governor Melvin Vargas Jr. and the 12 members of the provincial board to continue deliberating on the 2017 annual budget until they have enacted the ordinance providing for it.

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