A new building at Lumbia National High School, said to be the biggest structure of its kind lobbied by Cagayan de Oro City first district Rep. Lordan Suan, was inaugurated and turned over to the students October 22 this year.
Lumbia National High School students president Marianne Dennisse Rivera said they are in deep gratitude that the classroom building has been realized so they can now finally rid themselves of overcrowded classrooms and can meet their subject schedules on time.
With a population of 4,160 students, Lumbia National High School is one of the largest public K-12 institutions in the first district of the city and past classes have reportedly been held on a half day basis to accommodate all the pupils.
“But now with the rise of Building No. 15, we do not need to deal with overcrowded classrooms anymore. This to our bigger future and to the batches of graders after us,” Rivera beamed.
Funding for the building’s construction was delayed as late as November 2024 but Suan pushed the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) first city engineering district to start processing for the bid awarding and the works so it would be finished soon.
“We are preparing the next generation to become holistic and competent individuals,” Suan said during the turnover to the cheers of the students who watched in the covered court and across the four levels of the edifice.
But this is not the last of Suan’s lobbied projects in Lumbia National High School.
Another similar schoolbuilding will be constructed soon in the spacious campus.
Elsewhere in the barangay, former kagawad John Rey Rico said several pathways and a sito covered court were finished in 2026 alone.
“Lumbia is close to my heart because you have been supportive of me ever since,” Suan told the cheering crowd which is not just composed of the students but the officers of the parents association as well.
The newly inaugurated classroom building will be used by graduating twelfth graders which means that by 2027, another batch of students will be the ones to utilize it.
Despite the ban of flood control projects nationwide, Suan has consistently lobbied for other infra projects for his district.
