BARMM government through MILF distributes relief assistance as Ramadan month of fasting is on. Interior Minister Naguib G. Sinarimbo (in blue jacket) leads the activity. Cotabato City Mayor Bruce Matabalao is in white polo shirt. (Credit: MILG)
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Bangsamoro Gov’t Distributes Relief Aid, Xerox Machines, Inaugurates Community Activity Center

March 23, 2023
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Interior Minister Naguib G. Sinarimbo (at the podium) providing hopes to SGA constituents before guests at the event in the BARMM. (Credit: MILG)

COTABATO CITY — The Bangsamoro government under the leadership of Chief Minister Al-Hajj Murad Ebrahim distributed relief assistance on March 21, 2023, to its constituents given through the city’s “masjids” (mosques).

Relief assistance was also distributed on the same day to a number of barangays in the Special Geographic Area (SGA) of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) as the first day of Ramadan, the holy month of Islam, started with today, March 23, during which Muslims abstain from eating, drinking, smoking, and engaging in sex from sunup to sundown.

Headed by Interior Minister Naguib G. Sinarimbo, the Ministry of the Interior and Local Government (MILG) distributed the assistance, implementing its mandate from the Office of the Chief Minister (OCM).

         The day’s activity did not stop there for the MILG, one of the primary governance organs of the BARMM.
         “We also inaugurated the newly constructed Community Activity Center (CAC) in Barangay Lower Baguer, Pigkawayan Cluster of the SGA. The community activity center is funded under the SDF (Social Development Fund) and implemented by our Ministry,” Sinarimbo pointed out.

The MILG also brought equipment to help ease doing business with SGA barangays or villages.

         “We also distributed six units of photocopiers or Xerox machines to six barangays of the SGA as part of our effort to improve governance by providing them essential facilities and equipment,” the MILG chief, also the BARMM spokesperson, said.
The Community Activity Center (CAC), Pigkawayan Cluster, SGA. (Credit: MILG)
         Sinarimbo assured that the “Bangsamoro Government under the leadership of Chief Minister Al-Hajj Murad Ebrahim is committed to transforming governance and uplifting the lives of our people.”
         The Bangsamoro region, established in 2018 by the Bangsamoro Organic Law (BOL) to implement the CAB, is made up of the provinces of Basilan, Lanao del Sur, Maguindanao (now split as Maguindanao del Sur and 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.

He expressed thanks as well to the village and community leaders who came to witness the MILG activities, further assuring them that more is coming in the form of “dividends of peace” from the 2014 Comprehensive Agreement on the Bangsamoro (CAB). — EKU with reports from MILG (✓)

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