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COTABATO CITY — In a ceremony held as part of the 5th Bangsamoro Foundation Day Celebration, the Ministry of Basic, Higher and Technical Education (MBHTE) marked a significant milestone with the official unveiling and turnover of the two-storey Tawi-Tawi Division Office building held yesterday, January 23, 2024.
Subsidized under the Special Development Fund (SDF) 2020, the building was worth Php38,960,690.40. MBHTE, headed by Education Minister Mohagher M. Iqbal, is one of the 15 primary ministries of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao (BARMM).
The turnover was presided by MBHTE Director General (DG) for Basic Education Abdullah Salik, Jr., together with the Tawi-Tawi OIC-Schools Division Superintendent Dr. Lermalyn J. Sangogot, Provincial Administrator Mobin Gampal, and Board Member Dr. Sukarno Asri.
This initiative emphasized the Bangsamoro Government’s commitment to community development through strategic initiatives aimed at fortifying local infrastructure and educational facilities. The projects represent a concerted effort toward the advancement of Tawi-Tawi province.
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 “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; Lamitan in Basilan; and Marawi in Lanao del Sur. (✓)