Featured image above is Bangsamoro Attorney General and MBHTE Concurrent Acting Deputy Minister Bantuas Lucman at the Parliament hearing to look into education reforms. (Images: MBHTE)ย
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COTABATO CITY — Bangsamoro Attorney General and Concurrent Acting Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Basic, Higher and Technical Education (MBHTE), Atty. Bantuas M. Lucman, together with MBHTE officials, attended the first part of the session of the Joint Committee Oversight Hearing of the Committee on Basic, Higher and Technical Education and the Committee on Finance, Budget, and Management of the Bangsamoro Parliament on June 17, at the PMB Hall, Bangsamoro Transition Authority (BTA) Parliament, Bangsamoro Government Center (BGC) Compound, Cotabato City.
Chaired by Members of Parliament Kitem Kadatuan Jr. and Tomanda D. Antok, the hearing aimed to examine the current challenges confronting the education sector and identify appropriate measures to ensure the effective, efficient, and accountable discharge of the Ministryโs mandates and responsibilities.
As this developed, the education sector in the Bangsamoro region and the MBHTE employees have warmly welcomed Lucman at the ministry in the wake of his appointment as acting deputy minister by BARMM Interim Chief Minister Abdulraof A. Macacua.
“This well-deserved appointment reflects your dedication, leadership, and commitment to advancing quality education in the Bangsamoro,” the MBHTE community emphasized.
“We look forward to your continued service, efforts, and leadership in strengthening the MBHTE and empowering the Bangsamoro learners.”
It can be recalled that Macacua temporarily assumed the minister post of the MBHTE sometime in mid-May, then in early June he appointed Lucman to the education ministry, the largest of the 15 primary government agencies of the BARMM.
The Chief Minister has stresses time and again his desire to put in place administrative reforms and reinforce financial accountability following an annual audit by the Commission on Audit (COA). He wants Lucman to implement his vision.
The Bangsamoro region, established in 2018 by the Bangsamoro Organic Law (BOL) to implement the 2014 CAB, is made up of the provinces of Basilan, Lanao del Sur, Maguindanao del Norte, Maguindanao del Sur, and Tawi-Tawi, the cities of Cotabato, Lamitan, and Marawi; as well as the Special Geographic Area (SGA) with eight municipalities in North Cotabato but under 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)