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COTABATO CITY — The Ministry of Basic, Higher and Technical Education’s (MBHTE) Property and Supply Section has distributed a total of 3,640 MBHTE-designed armchairs to the school divisions Lanao del Sur I, Lanao del Sur II, Maguindanao del Norte, Maguindanao del Sur, and Special Geographic Area (SGA).
Minister Mohagher M. Iqbal is the education chief of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM).
The recipient schools are the following:
1. Abedin Memorial NHS
2. Acoon Memorial NHS
3. Al-Asim ES
4. Ambor Memorial NHS
5. Apa Mimbalay ES
6. Arrahmah Quranic Memorization Center, Inc.
7. Brar ES
8. Buadiposo Buntong NHS
9. Cormatan ES
10. Darping ES
11. Datu Abdula M. Comino Memorial NHS
12. Datupalawan Memorial NHS
13. Dimabara ES
14. Ditopor ES
15. Don F. Blanco, Sr. ES
16. East Bayabao Integrated NHS
17. Guindulungan HS
18. Johayver Memorial NHS
19. Kabakab ES
20. Kabugkabug ES
21. Kakai Dayagun Dagalangit NHS
22. Kapatagan ES
23. Kasayanan Proper PS
24. Lacoto Memorial NHS
25. Laiabuan ES
26. Macadaag ES
27. Macatanong Memorial NHS
28. Madrasah Darul Ihsan Al-Islamie
29. Magandia Amaloy ES
30. Masiu CES
31. Mimbalay ES
32. Muslim ES
33. Nangi NHS
34. Sabaken CES
35. Sarip Memorial HS
36. Sulon NHS
37. Sultan Adel PS
38. Tariken ES
39. Tinindanan ES
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. With the recent plebiscite at SGA, the BARMM now has eight new municipalities as residents voted “Yes”.
According to the Philippine Atlas BARMM has 4,404,288 people. It has 116 municipalities (plus eight newly established under the SGA: 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. (✓)