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COTABATO CITY — New school buildings, built to withstand calamities, continued to be constructed by the Bangsamoro government.
Constructing school buildings in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) is wiithin the ambit of the Ministry Basic, Higher and Technical Education (MBHTE), one of the BARMM’s primary organs of governance.
Headed by Minister Mohagher M. Iqbal, the education ministry turned over completed school buildings projects worth a total of Php7,439,230.56 to the local government unit (LGU) of the Municipality of Datu Salibo, Maguindanao I Division.
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. — EDD K. USMAN/with reports from MBHTE (✓)