VICE President Sara Duterte lauded Digos City's historical significance and its exponential growth from a small barrio to a municipality and later to a city, noting its role in the Philippine revolution and its economic transformation.

Speaking at the 23rd anniversary of its Digos cityhood on Friday, Duterte said that the significance of Digos City 'is stitched into the fascinating history of Mindanao and the revolution of the Moro people against the Spaniards. One of these Moro leaders was Davao City hero Datu Bago.' 'Not to be wiped out from your history are the Bagobo lumads who inhabited parts of Mount Apo,' Duterte added.