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COTABATO CITY — The Bangsamoro Ministry of the Interior and Local Government (MILG) has awarded Php3.5 million each to nine barangays (villages) in Cotabato City for the construction of Barangay Hall Building.
Headed by Interior Minister Naguib G. Sinarimbo, the MILG, one of the primary ministries of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM), the funding is for the construction of two-storey buildings in the nine villages.
The recipients are Barangays Rosary Heights Mother, Rosary Heights I, Bagua II, Kalanganan Mother, Kalanganan I, Kalanganan II, Poblacion II, Poblacion III, and Poblacion VII.
Sinarimbo, also the spokesman of the BARMM government, said the project is a component of the Office of the Chief Minister’s Support to Local Moral Governance (OCM SLMG) initiative, which provides funding for infrastructure projects such as the construction of Barangay Halls, among others, which is being carried out by MILG’s Project Management Development Division (PMDD).
Cotabato City Mayor Mohammad Ali “Bruce” Dela Cruz Matabalao thanked the Bangsamoro Government and Sinarimbo, saying, “barangays are at the forefront of local government, and this is extremely important; they interact with our constituents and participate in the delivery of fundamental services; BARMM and MILG can rely on the service of our barangays to be rounded for all.”
MILG construction projects is region-wide
It is not only Cotabato City, the seat of the Bangsamoro government, which receives construction projects from MILG, but the rest of the region’s component provinces, cities, and Special Geographic Area (SGA).
The Bangsamoro region, established in 2018 by the Bangsamoro Organic Law (BOL) to implement the 2014 Comprehensive Agreement on the Bangsamoro (CAB), is made up of the provinces of Basilan, Lanao del Sur, Maguindanao del Sur, Maguindanao del Norte, Sulu, and Tawi-Tawi, the cities of Cotabato, Lamitan, and Marawi, as well as the 63 barangays or villages dubbed Special Geographic Area (SGA) that voted “yes” in a plebiscite in February 2019 to be under the BARMM jurisdiction.
According to the Philippine Atlas has 4,404,288 people. It has 116 municipalities: Basilan, 11 municipalities; Lanao del Sur, 39; Maguindanao, 36; Sulu, 19; and Tawi-Tawi, 11. Its component cities are Cotabato (the regional center and capital) in Maguindanao; Lamitan in Basilan; and Marawi in Lanao del Sur.
Construction projects being implemented by the MILG include Municipal Halls, Public Terminals, Public Markets, Tourism Centers, Philippine National Police (PNP) Stations, Barangay Halls, Seawater Desalination Facilities, Installation of Water Systems, among others. (✓)
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With report from MILG.