Davao businesswoman runs for Congress in 2010 polls

DAVAO CITY, Dec. 3 PNA) – A businesswoman here will run for Congress in the city ’s second district under the political line up of Davao City mayoralty candidate House Speaker Prospero Nograles.

Joji Ilagan-Bian made her announcement at a press conference Wednesday held at her newly-built six storey school Institute of International Culinary and Hospitality Entrepreneurship along Bonifacio Street.

Bian said sharing the similar vision of change, prompted why she has decided to run under the Nograles camp.

According to her, she decided to crack a whip anew in the political arena in the May 2010 elections in pursuit for change. She ran for similar post nine years ago, but unfortunately lost the election.

Bian, a graduate of B.S. in Hotel and Restaurant Administration of the University of the Philippines, Diliman, Quezon City said, she focuses her political platform of agenda on livelihood, education, and health as these are the areas she has been engaging into for a number of years in her life.

Operating various schools and training centers in the city, Bian has been providing jobs for a number of people.

Bian will be squaring it out with three other political contenders in the city’s third congressional district namely: Councilor Diosdado Mahipus, Majority floor leader Danilo Dayanghirang, and Atty. Mylene Garcia, sister of incumbent second district representative Vincent Garcia.

Bian said she has already assigned her businesses to her husband and their three off springs as she sets her eye on the campaign trail.

“If luck comes my way, the current arrangement I made with my husband and children will be permanent in relation to looking after their string of businesses,” she said when asked how she would play her role as a businesswoman at the same time, elected official if ever she will win the election.

As a business woman, Bian currently owns a number of schools in the city in the fields of tourism, language and call center training school, call center, welding, and culinary.

The Joji Ilagan Foundation which she chairs is also the Philippine franchise holder of the Tumble Tots, an international UK based pre-school with over 5,000 schools worldwide.

She is also the executive vice president of the ten-hectare Zero Eight Plastic Recyling Corporation.

As a professional Bian has various trade affiliations among others; chair of the Mindanao Business Council from 1998 to 2003; Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PCCCII); East Asean Business Council (EABC) Deputy Chair for the Philippines; Davao City Investment and Promotion Board; chair Mindanao technical vocational education and training (TVET) Association; vice chair Mindanao Commission of Women, and vice chair National Corn Board. (PNA)

LBV/Judy G. Quiros/lvp

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