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==DA chief barnstorms Maguindanao, Lanao del Sur to make Muslim farmers productive== | |||
*Source:http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?nid=2&rid=620784 | |||
*Friday, February 28, 2014 | |||
:(PNA), PDS/NYP/EOF | |||
COTABATO CITY, Feb. 28 (PNA) --In support of the peace overtures of Malacanang in southern Philippines, Agriculture Secretary Proceso Alcala and officials of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) launched on Friday different projects for Maguindanao and Lanao del Sur. | |||
The two provinces are known as less developed areas in terms of agriculture and both are bastions of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) with which the government is talking peace for development. | |||
Alcala led the dispersal of farm equipment and livestock to Maguindanaon and Maranaw farmers to improve their productivity in an effort to support President Aquino's dream of empowering Moro farmers who will form part of the proposed Bangsamoro government. | |||
Alcala earlier traveled to Lanao del Sur and met with farmers to learn from them how the Department of Agriculture could help them become productive and be at par with their counterparts in other regions in Mindanao. | |||
Alcala was accompanied by ARMM Governor Mujiv Hataman and Department of Agriculture and Fisheries Regional Secretary Makmod Mending, Jr. | |||
In Marawi City, Alcala, Hataman and Mending jointly presided over the Agri-Pinoy Program forum with Lanao del Sur farmers and fisher folks. | |||
His tour ended with Alcala turning over a farm tractor to the local government of Lanao del Sur's Bumbaran town. Bumbaran is a known bailiwick of the MILF. | |||
Alcala and ARMM officials then turned over corn mills, cattle, goats, chicken, and ducks for breeding, to farmers’ cooperatives in Lanao del Sur. | |||
Recipient of the farm equipment and work animals were Parao Farmers Multi-Purpose Cooperative, in Kapa town, to a group of former Moro National Liberation Front guerrillas in the same town, and the Sarimanok and Abduljalil cooperatives in Marawi City. | |||
Close to 130 bags of organic fertilizers were handed over by Alcala to farmers in Wao, Saguiran and Pantar municipalities where most of the farmers were either MILF members or supporters. | |||
Ten cooperatives in Lanao del Sur also received a water buffalo each from Alcala and Mending too while 50 knapsack chemical sprayers were also turned over. | |||
After Lanao Sur activities, Alcala proceeded to Maguindanao where he also distributed farm equipment and dispersed animals to farmers. | |||
==ARMM inaugurates new DPWH building== | |||
*Source:http://www.philstar.com/nation/2014/02/27/1295165/armm-inaugurates-new-dpwh-building | |||
*Thursday, February 27, 2014 5:30 pm | |||
:By John Unson (philstar.com) | |||
LANAO DEL SUR, Philippines - Officials inaugurated on Wednesday the newly-constructed district public works office of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) in Malabang town in the province. | |||
The construction of the ARMM’s district engineering office in Malabang, a coastal town in the second district of Lanao del Sur, was a joint project of the office of ARMM Gov. Mujiv Hataman and the region’s public works secretary, Hadji Emil Sadain. | |||
The building appeared bigger and looked more expensive than its actual cost, according to Engineer Abib Arumpac, chief of the Lanao del Sur 2nd District Engineering Office. | |||
“Apparently there was utmost honesty in the implementation of the project by the ARMM government,” Arumpac told reporters. | |||
Sadain said the P4.8-million building was built according to its specifications. | |||
“We are very grateful to the ARMM government for having built this office,” Arumpac said. | |||
The building was jointly inaugurated by Hataman, Sadain, and Lanao del Sur Gov. Mamintal Adiong, Jr. | |||
The ARMM’s Department of Public Works and Highways, and the region’s education department were touted as the most corrupt agencies in the autonomous region before Hataman was appointed ARMM caretaker in 2011. | |||
Hataman was elected regional governor of ARMM on May 13, 2013. | |||
The DPWH-ARMM and the region's Department of Education, under Secretary Jamar Kulayan, mustered almost P2 billion worth of savings, from early 2012 to the last quarter of 2013. | |||
The launching of the newly-built DPWH district office in Malabang was capped off with the signing of memorandum of agreements (MOAs) on various infrastructure projects for the province by Hataman, Sadain, Adiong, and local executives from recipient towns. | |||
==Upi public market gets P5-M boost from ARMM government== | |||
*Source:http://news.pia.gov.ph/index.php?article=2411393379469 | |||
*Wednesday, February 26, 2014 | |||
:By Oliver Ross V. Rivera (ORVRivera-PIA12/BPI-ARMM) | |||
COTABATO CITY, Feb. 26 (PIA) – The Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) government is funding the renovation and improvement of Upi town’s public market with a P5-M from the special purpose fund of the Office of the Regional Governor. | |||
ARMM Governor Mujiv Hataman, Upi Mayor Ramon Piang and local officials yesterday, led the groundbreaking ceremony at the project site. | |||
The P5M fund will be released in tranches. Hataman personally handed yesterday the initial P2.5M to Upi Mayor Ramon Piang, Sr. | |||
In his message, Hataman lauded the exemplary performance of the local government of Upi in providing services to its constituents. | |||
The official added that the ARMM government wants to help stimulate the town’s economy and empower the population of indigenous peoples (IP) in the area. | |||
The local government unit of Upi is a consistent recipient of awards and citations on good governance including the Seal of Good Housekeeping provided by the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG). | |||
Meanwhile, Upi Mayor Ramon Piang said the improvement of the public market will greatly help the local economy of the town, which is mostly agricultural. | |||
This year, it was among the seven towns in ARMM granted the seal of good housekeeping with a P1 million performance challenge incentive. | |||
Upi, located in the first district of Maguindanao, is mostly home to ARMM’s non-Moro Teduray people. | |||
==ARMM celebrates EDSA I with development project in Maguindanao== | |||
*Source:http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?nid=2&rid=619814 | |||
*Tuesday, February 25, 2014 | |||
:(PNA), FFC/NYP/EOF | |||
UPI, Maguindanao, Feb. 25 (PNA) -- In commemoration of the first EDSA revolution, officials in Maguindanao and the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) launched Tuesday a P5 million-worth market improvement project in this upland municipality. | |||
The improvement of the public market of Upi in Maguindanao's first district was funded out of the Special Purpose Fund (SPF) of the office of ARMM Gov. Mujiv Hataman. | |||
Hataman and Upi Mayor Ramon Piang Jr. led the ground breaking for the market project witnessed by leaders of the indigenous ethnic Teduray communities. | |||
Piang is an ethnic Teduray chieftain. | |||
"This project is a special EDSA spirit cooperation venture of ARMM and Upi local government," Hataman said. | |||
The ARMM governor said the project was meant to hasten the socio-economic empowerment of the indigenous people (IP) in Upi, locally known as the corn capital of Maguindanao and the province's "little Baguio" due to its cold temperature even at day time. | |||
Accompanying Hataman was lawyer Kirby Abdullah, who is helping oversee the ARMM's inter-agency Humanitarian Emergency Action and Relief Team, and the region's natural resources secretary, Kahal Kedtag. | |||
“This market project is also intended to bring to the consciousness of the IPs and Moro sectors in this municipality the importance of the `EDSA I’ solidarity context. Unity and cooperation will help accelerate the socio-economic growth of this area,” Hataman told officials and IPs present during the launching. | |||
Piang said the local communities are grateful to Hataman and the ARMM leadership for its generosity in bringing development to improve the lives of its inhabitants, mostly Tedudays. | |||
Piang, a former member of the government peace panel talking peace with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), explained to the IPs about the benefits of the peace deal once it is finalized. | |||
Hataman also assured IPs that they won't be left out in the dark if a peace deal is realized. | |||
“We shall exhaust everything to ensure that the IPs in the autonomous region will not be left out in the peace process. The government and MILF had already assured no such thing will ever happen,” Hataman told the IPs. | |||
==ARMM eyes public cemeteries for Moro constituents== | |||
*Source:http://www.philstar.com/nation/2014/02/24/1294008/armm-eyes-public-cemeteries-moro-constituents | |||
*Monday, February 24, 2014 12:26 pm | |||
:By John Unson (philstar.com) | |||
Assemblyman Khadafeh Mangudadatu of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, proponent of a local bill aimed at establishing Moro public graveyards, listens to Commissioner Esmael Ibrahim of the National Commission on Muslim Filipinos (right) explain the importance of burial grounds in Islam during a break in Saturday’s public consultation on the Regional Legislative Assembly Bill 04. (JOHN UNSON) | |||
MAGUINDANAO, Philippines --- Local executives unanimously endorsed a proposed regional law that would require all municipal and provincial governments in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) to put up public cemeteries for Moro constituents. | |||
The Regional Legislative Assembly (RLA) Bill 04, which will oblige local government units in the ARMM to establish Muslim burial sites, was authored by Maguindanao 2nd District Assemblyman Khadafeh Mangudadatu. | |||
The league of municipal mayors in the province vowed to support the enactment of the proposed regional law during a public consultation over the weekend in Buluan town in the second district of Maguindanao. | |||
Some LGU officials had recommended that the Muslim cemeteries be managed by members of the Darul Iftah, also known as Islamic House of Opinions, which is composed of senior clerics residing in the ARMM provinces. | |||
Ustadz Esmael Ibrahim, a commissioner in the National Commission on Muslim Filipinos, explained to participants to the dialogue the religious relevance of establishing such cemeteries. | |||
He also urged ARMM's cross-section communities to support the initiative. | |||
Ibrahim said the NCMF is in favor of RLA Bill 04. | |||
Maguindanao Gov. Esmael Mangudadatu said his office also supports the bill, which will institutionalize a free burial system for Muslims in all parts of the autonomous region. | |||
Gov. Mangudadatu said his family is ready to donate a piece of land in their hometown, Buluan, for a Muslim public cemetery once the law is enacted. | |||
“To be buried properly, within 24 hours after death, is a spiritual right of every Muslim,” Gov. Mangudadatu said. | |||
Also present during Saturday’s public consultation on RLA Bill 04 in Buluan were other regional lawmakers from across the province led by Assemblyman Rene Midtimbang. | |||
Assemblyman Mangudadatu, who helped Midtimbang preside over the consultation, said he is confident local executives in other ARMM provinces will endorse RLA Bill 04 too. | |||
Assemblyman Mangudadatu and his colleagues in the RLA, touted as the “Little Congress” of ARMM, will conduct public consultations on the proposed law this week in Lanao del Sur, and in the Basilan-Sulu-Tawi-Tawi (Basulta) area. | |||
==ARMM to give P6-M monthly aid to each of 12 towns disqualified from getting IRA== | |||
*Source:http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/580092/armm-to-give-p6-m-monthly-aid-to-each-of-12-towns-disqualified-from-getting-ira | |||
*Sunday, February 23, 2014 6:36 pm | |||
:By Charlie Señase, Judy Quiros (Inquirer Mindanao) | |||
COTABATO CITY, Philippines – The Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao government has set aside a total of P6 million in financial aid every month starting January to at least 12 municipalities without Internal Revenue Allotment (IRA) allocations. | |||
Laisa Alamia, ARMM executive secretary, said the towns of Saidona Mustapha, Datu Hofer, Datu Salibo, Anggal Midtimbang, Blah Sinsuat, Mangudadatu, Pandag, and Northern Kabuntalan, all in Maguindanao; and Akbar, Al-Barka, Hadji Muhtamad, and Mohammad Ajul, all of Basilan, have been disqualified from receiving IRA for reported failure to satisfy the requirements set by the Local Government Code. | |||
These towns were created one after another by the ARMM’s Regional Legislative Assembly starting in 2006. | |||
“These towns failed to meet the criteria set for creating municipalities under RA 7160, otherwise known as the Local Government Code of 1991. The discrepancy has disqualified these regionally established towns from receiving IRA,” Alamia said. | |||
It was not immediately known what the regional government intended to do with these towns, considering that their establishment as municipalities has been considered void, but Alamia said that for the whole year, a total of P72 million has been programmed for them. | |||
Each town will receive at least P500,000 each month but the money was not for salaries but was “intended to help local government units improve governance and hasten implementation of government programs and projects in their respective municipalities.” | |||
“But they (LGUs) have to work for this by religiously reporting to the office. It is not for salaries but for priority projects that have to be approved and closely monitored for proper implementation,” she added. | |||
Maguindanao Assemblyman Khadafi Mangudadatu said the 12 towns have been receiving subsidies since their creation. | |||
“It stopped when the finding they did not satisfy requirements set for creation of towns came out,” he said. | |||
Mangudadatu said the regional government has been trying to address the failure of governance in these towns even as a review of the qualifications of each town to become municipalities has been going on. | |||
==DepEd-ARMM goes geo-tagging== | |||
*Source:http://deped.armm.gov.ph/2014/02/deped-armm-goes-geo-tagging.html | |||
*Saturday, February 22, 2014 | |||
:(DepEd-ARMM) | |||
As part of the continuing reform of the current ARMM leadership, DepEd-ARMM will now pursue geo-tagging public schools in the region. In a regional memorandum issued last February 20 (DepEd-ARMM Order 53, series 2014), Regional Secretary Atty. Jamar Kulayan informs the DepEd-ARMM bureaucracy that geo-tagging will now cover selected public elementary and secondary schools. The instruction is to cover one district per division and to cover all public elementary and secondary schools in the said covered districts. | |||
Two (2) teams from the Policy and Planning Division (PPD) and the Office of the Regional Secretary will led the process. Aside from the geo-tagging activity, the team will also cover assessment of school infrastructure and implementation of the school-based management (SBM) grant. | |||
According to PPD Chief Marjuni Maddi, this an exercise of increasing accountability and transparency, to insure resources are invested efficiency, in areas where are really needed (equity) and to respond be able to tailor government interventions based on the needs of the community. | |||
==Petronas to supply lower-priced fuel to Mindanao provinces== | |||
*Source:http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?nid=2&rid=618451 | |||
*Friday, February 21, 2014 | |||
:By Wilnard L. Bacelonia [(PNA), LAM/NYP/WLBACELONIA-OJT/] | |||
COTABATO CITY. Feb. 21 (PNA) -- Fuel prices in Maguindanao and nearby provinces are expected to drop as the Malaysian-based Iron Blaze Petroleum, Inc. was given the permission to import oil products in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) through Petronas-Malaysia. | |||
Petronas, the acronym for Petroliam Nasional Berhad, is a Malaysian oil and gas company founded in 1974 and fully owned and controlled by the Malaysian government | |||
Lawyer Mimbalawag Barok Mangutara, Polloc port manager in Parang town, said that the Iron Blaze firm would supply nine million liters of petroleum products from Malaysia every month in Maguindanao. | |||
"A memorandum of agreement between Petronas and Iron Blaze Petroleum was signed and they are about to sign a contract to regularly provide oil supply to Maguindanao", Mangutara said. | |||
Currently, Iron Blaze is supplying 260,000 liters of petroleum to the ARMM per shipment. | |||
Mangutara added that Iron Blaze is also expected to put-up an oil depot in Polloc Port, which they expect to help build up the ARMM economy and provide employment to thousands of residents in the area. | |||
==Nurses for Maguindanao, Lanao Sur under NDP ready for deployment== | ==Nurses for Maguindanao, Lanao Sur under NDP ready for deployment== | ||
*Source:http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?nid=2&rid=618195 | *Source:http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?nid=2&rid=618195 | ||