DAVAO CITY – Even after the mayor of this city ordered the destruction of the public park named after the father of House Speaker Prospero Nograles, the lawmaker turned his other cheek by filing a measure to name a public school after the father of his political rival.

“Although he casted stones on me, I’ll avenge by throwing back bread,” Nograles said in Filipino after getting word that the Senate has already approved House Bill (HB) 6435.

HB 6435 intends to separate the Governor Vicente Duterte Annex in Barangay Bangkal, Talomo District, this city, from the Mabini National High School – converting it to an independent national high school.

The proposed law, already ratified by both the Senate on November 16 and the House of Representatives on June 3, would transfer all personnel, assets, liabilities and records of the Mabini National High School to be absorbed by the Governor Vicente Duterte National High School.

“We build and preserve the legacies of great men like the late Governor Duterte, for their great deeds. I’m in public service to build and not to destroy,” stressed Nograles holding the still unnumbered law which President Arroyo is expected to sign soon.