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ARMM turns over new market place in Maguindanao town
- Source:http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?nid=2&rid=831756
- Thursday, November 26, 2015
- (PNA), LAP/NYP/EOF
COTABATO CITY, Nov. 26 (PNA) -- Officials of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) on Wednesday formally turned over a new market building in the town of Sultan Kudarat in Maguindanao.
The newly-constructed market building in Barangay Crossing Simuay, Sultan Kudarat town in Maguindanao serves as converging point of commuters and market goers having been located at a crossroad inter-connecting the Cotabato-Davao and Cotabato-Marawi Highways.
It was jointly inaugurated by ARMM Gov. Mujiv Hataman and Sultan Kudarat municipal officials led by Mayor Shameem Mastura.
The Php161-million project was funded by Gov. Hataman's office with local funding support from the local government of Sultan Kudarat.
Engineer Don Mustapha Loong, public works secretary of ARMM, said the Sultan Kudarat town marker was one of the many development projects programmed by the Hataman administration out of grants from the region’s 2014 and 2015 infrastructure budgets.
Aside from the market building, the project includes an arterial road that would connect interior villages to main highways near the market area.
Shameen Mastura, who was not an ally of President Aquino's Liberal Party having been a member of United Nationalist Alliance, was grateful to Gov. Hataman and the president for having the project in his town despite his different political affiliation.
"The Aquino government does not mind political affiliations of local political leaders in project implementation because its the people and the constituents who will benefit from the project. What is important is the people," Hataman told reporters.
He stressed that the project is complimenting the peace initiatives of President Aquino and to show to the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) the government is determined to bring about development in Bangsamoro areas.
Crossing Darapanan where the new structure was located is a kilometer away from the MILF's main base - Camp Darapanan.