Featured image above shows BARMM MP and Education Minister Mohagher M. Iqbal turns over symbolic key to beneficiary school on Bongo Island. (Credit: MBHTE
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COTABATO CITY — The Office of Member of Parliament (MP) Mohagher Iqbal, in partnership with the Ministry of Basic, Higher and Technical Education (MBHTE), turned over today, December 7, a covered court with stage to Brgy. Tuka Maror on Bongo Island, Municipality of Parang, under the Province of Maguindanao del Norte.
Amounting to Php3,586,006.55, the said facility was subsidized under the Transitional Development Impact Fund (TDIF) 2021 of MP Iqbal.
In his speech, MP and Education Minister Iqbal stressed not only the importance of maintaining the facility but also underscored its symbolic resonance as a tangible outcome of the decades-long Bangsamoro struggle.
Further, he encouraged everyone to uphold the principle of moral governance, emphasizing its intrinsic link to justice — the very essence deserving of every Bangsamoro.
This dual call to care for the facility and embrace moral governance signals a commitment not just to physical structures but to the holistic well-being and justice for the Bangsamoro community.
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 Special Geographic Area’s (SGA) 63 barangays or villages that voted โYesโ 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; Lamitan in Basilan; and Marawi in Lanao del Sur. (โ)