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COTABATO CITY (SDN) — The Bangsamoro government is continuing to provide construction projects to the municipalities of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM).
BARMM’s present crop of leaders have assured they will continue to do so until the transition phase concludes, if not extended once again, in May 2025.
Recently on the 29th of March the Ministry of the Interior and Local Government (MILG) under the leadership of Minister Naguib G. Sinarimbo and the regional Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP) broke ground in the Municipality of Pagalungan, Magunidanao del Sur, for the construction of a modern fire station and four units of two-storey Barangay Halls Buildings.
While he was at it, the MILG minister also paid a personal visit to the town’s new Public Market, which was funded by the BARMM government as well. He expressed his gratitude to Pagalungan Mayor Salik P. Mamasabulod and all the local officials for their unwavering support for the BARMM under the leadership of Chief Minister Al-Hajj Murad Ebrahim.
The Brangay Hall project is part of the Office of the Chief Minister’s (OCM’s Support to Local Moral Governance (SLMG), which provides funding for infrastructure projects such as the construction of Barangay Halls, among other building projects, while the budget for the Php7 million Pagalungan Fire Station (PFS) is sourced from the Bangsamoro Appropriation Act of 2022, all of which are carried out by MILG’s Project Management Development Division (PMDD).
Mayor Mamasabulod and Vice Mayor Abdilah Mamasabulod conveyed their utmost gratefulness to the BARMM Government for funding the projects.
Established in 2018 by the Bangsamoro Organic Law (BOL) to implement the 2014 Comprehensive Agreement on the Bangsamoro (CAB), the region 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. — with reports from MILG (✓)