A newly-opened, long and winding road going to the hinterlands of barangay Kinam has paved the way for developmental projects and government services to pour into the now rebel-free community.
The road-opening project that started in 2020 was initiated by the partnership of the 52nd Engineer Brigade-512th Engineer Construction Battalion and the local governments of Malapatan and Sarangani province with the goal of bringing to an end the decade-long armed conflict between New People’s Army rebels and government troops in Kinam.
The road project is one of the responses to the mandate of President Rodrigo Duterte thru Executive Order No. 70 institutionalizing the Whole-of-Nation Approach creating a National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict or ELCAC.