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COTABATO CITY — A year after their appointment and assumption to office as members of the Bangsamoro Transition Authority (BTA), seven “newly” appointed Members of Parliament (MPs) will be presenting to their Bangsamoro constituents, stakeholders and community leaders their accomplishments and performance for the past 12 months.
Dubbed as “Year One: Performance and Accomplishments of Newly Appointed BTA Members”, the Public Forum will be held on August 21, 2023, from 8 a.m. to 12 noon at the Alnor Convention Hall in Cotabato City.
According to Majority Floor Leader Atty. Sha Elijah Dumama-Alba, “reporting the Parliament’s accomplishment and performance to the public is aligned with Bangsamoro Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao’s (BARMM) mission to promote moral governance.
MP Atty. Mary Ann M. Arnado emphasized that “public office is a public trust, and it is the duty of public officials to always be transparent and accountable in our actions. Reporting is a good governance practice, and we hope we will be able to regularly communicate and inform the people on the progress of our work especially during this most critical juncture in the extended transition period.”
The purpose of this event is to apprise the public and our constituents of the programs, and key milestones that new members of the BTA Parliament were able to accomplish during the one-year period that they have been in office.
The presentors for the Public Forum are MPs Mosber Alauddin, Matarul Estino, Baileng S. Mantawil, Tawakal Midtimbang, Suharto Esmael, Arnado and Dumama-Alba, with Deputy Speaker Lanang Ali, Jr. delivering the Welcome Remarks.
Governing the Bangsamoro region is the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) with Chief Minister Ahod Balawag “Al-Hajj Murad” Ebrahim the head of the BTA.
The BTA has 80 MPs, 41 of them from the MILF side, and the 39 endorsed by the Government of the Philippines (GPH).
Established in 2018 by the Bangsamoro Organic Law (BOL) to implement the 2014 Comprehensive Agreement on the Bangsamoro (CAB), the Bangsamoro region 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 SGA’s 63 barangays or villages that voted “Yes” in a plebiscite in February 2019 to be under the BARMM jurisdiction.
According to the Philippine Atlas BARMM has 4,404,288 people. It has 116 municipalities: Basilan, 11 municipalities; Lanao del Sur, 39; undivided Maguindanao, 36; Sulu, 19; and Tawi-Tawi, 11. Its component cities are Cotabato (the regional center and capital) in Maguindanao del Norte; Lamitan in Basilan; and Marawi in Lanao del Sur. (✓)