Oscar Moreno

The eventual transfer of the airport from its former site in the hinterland barangay (village) of Lumbia in Cagayan de Oro and completion of the Laguindingan Airport project occurred in April 2013 during campaign season when Moreno ran and won Cagayan de Oro City's mayoral seat from Vicente Emano, a former Misamis Oriental governor.

The inauguration as Mayor of Cagayan de Oro City was held on June 30, 2013. The construction of hundreds of elementary and high school classrooms for the poor and the revival of the J.R. Borja Memorial City Hospital, including several free medical services for the less fortunate, are only some of the achievements within less than three years in service for the city.

When he assumed office as City Mayor of Cagayan de Oro in June 2013, Education has been his priority program, thus from 2014 to 2019, the city government managed to build 548 classrooms, with 48 more under construction on his last few months of office before the May 2019 Election, where he is running for re-election under the ruling national PDP-Laban party.

Moreno was born in Balingasag, Misamis Oriental to Dr. Emeterio A. Moreno Sr., who served in the town's barangays (villages) and Milagros Roa Seriña, a retired public school teacher and music instructor. He is married to Arlene Parado Pasion from Laoag City and Dingras, Ilocos Norte with whom he has three children – Sean Oliver, Imee Rose and Oscar Jr.

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The groundbreaking ceremonies for the airport project held in January 2008 was graced by then president Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo who pushed for construction of an international airport in the Cagayan de Oro-Iligan corridor.

Midway through his first term in the Capitol, Moreno was instrumental in kick-starting the implementation and shepherding the completion of the long delayed Laguindingan Airport project in 2006.

In 2004, he was elected Governor of the Province of Misamis Oriental and re-elected for two more three year terms in 2007 and 2010.

Months after he assumed office in 2004, then governor Moreno ordered the building of roads that would open access to and from Lantad and ensured the delivery of basic services to its residents who are mostly farmers.

During his congressional tenure, he authored and co-authored legislation on fiscal and financial reform, anti-money laundering, barangay micro-business enterprise. Moreno also authored laws to strengthen education, social services and environment protection in the countryside. He was also a member of the Prosecution Panel during the 2000-2001 impeachment trial of President Joseph Ejercito Estrada.

Three years later in 1998, however, Moreno defeated Cezar to sit as representative of the First District of Misamis Oriental.

Moreno's first foray in public service was in 1995 when he ran for Representative of the First District of Misamis Oriental. He lost to the then-incumbent, the late Homobono Cezar.

But actual work on the airport project, a centerpiece program of the Cagayan-Iligan-Corridor (CIC) masterplan, had been bogged down since 1992 by land acquisition negotiations with the affected settlers and raising counterpart funding to purchase the 300 hectares required for the airport complex.

He graduated at the Balingasag Central School and finished secondary education at Xavier University - Ateneo de Cagayan. He took up Bachelor of Arts at the University of Manila; finished his Bachelor of Laws degree at San Beda College. He took and passed the bar exams in 1975.

Oscar "Oca" Seriña Moreno (born February 28, 1951) is a Filipino politician and the incumbent Mayor of Cagayan de Oro City, Northern Mindanao, Philippines, the provincial capital of Misamis Oriental. He is a lawyer by profession and a former banker before he entered public service.