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==[[Shariff Kabunsuan News]]==
==[[Shariff Kabunsuan News]]==
'''ARMM OIC aspirants to present agenda'''
'''ARMM rites begin with free live telecast of Pacquiao's fight'''
*Source: http://www.zamboangatoday.ph/index.php/news/13-top-stories/6160-armm-oic-aspirants-to-present-agenda.html
*Source: http://www.mb.com.ph/articles/341041/armm-rites-begin-with-free-live-telecast-pacquiaos-fight
*Monday, 12 September 2011 12:41
*November 12, 2011, 6:26pm
:by Zamboanga Today Online
:by ALI G. MACABALANG




Cotabato City - All roads lead to the Shariff Kabunsuan Cultural Center here today, Monday as the seven aspirants to become officer-in-charge governor of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao will present their own reform agenda for ARMM governance.  
COTABATO CITY, Philippines – For the third time, the 20-month-old administration of Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) Acting Governor Ansaruddin Alonto-Adiong will provide free live telecast of Sunday’s fight between Filipino boxing legend Manny Pacquiao and Mexican challenger Juan Manuel Marquez as an opening highlight of the weeklong celebration of the 22nd ARMM foundation anniversary.


The two-day public forum aims to let those wanting to become OIC governor, OIC vice governor and OIC-members of the Regional Legislative Assembly present their agenda of government when they assume office starting October 1, granting they were the lucky ones, the ARMM interior and local governments said recently.  
More spectators are expected to swarm the venue at the refurbished Shariff Kabunsuan Cultural Center (SKCC) inside the ARMM compound here. Free snacks await viewers, Regional Executive Secretary Naguib Sinarimbo said.


In fact, 341 candidates for OICs in the region's 26 appointive posts "will sell" themselves before the ARMM constituents in different venues across the region on Monday and Tuesday.  
“This (live telecast of Pacquiao’s fight) would be the third time the Adiong administration will host for our residents of ARMM and nearby areas in 20 months. This time, the free show and snacks would more meaningful because it kicks off our 22nd anniversary celebration from November 14 to 19,” Sinarimbo said.


DILG-ARMM Secretary Haroun Alrashid Lucman said there are 273 people aspiring to be named OIC-Assemblymen in three separate venues in Cotabato City for Maguindanao lawmakers, Marawi City for Lanao del Sur aspirants and Zamboanga City for Basilan, Sulu and Tawi-Tawi hopefuls.  
The fully air-conditioned SKCC building has a sitting capacity of 870, but over 2,000 spectators swarmed the edifice in the last two ARMM-sponsored free live shows of Pacquiao fights. Giant TV units were installed at the covered lobby of the building to accommodate hundreds more viewers of Sunday’s event, organizers said.


For OIC-governor, the short list prepared by the Screening Committee has been forwarded to the House of Representatives and the Senate.  
Before the free live showing of the Pacquiao-Marquez match and its undercard fights, viewers would be shown a video documentation of the highlights of the trailblazing accomplishments of the Adiong administration in 20 months, they said.


Of the seven "shortlisted" candidates, five came from Lanao del Sur, one from Maguindanao and one from Basilan.  
On Monday, officials and workers of the entire regional bureaucracy will hold a colorful parade around the 22-hectare ARMM complex here to formally open the region’s 22nd founding anniversary celebration.


Malacanang has announced that President Aquino will name the OICs for ARMM before he leaves for a state visit in the United States scheduled on September 18.  
Various festive activities have been lined up for the weeklong celebration, including a jobs fair, free medical, dental and optical check-ups and medicines, sport games, cultural presentations, and a musical program organized by local journalists, among others, Sinarimbo said.


The appointment of OICs for ARMM was vested to the President through Republic Act 10153 which also postponed the scheduled August 2011 elections and hold it simultaneous with the 2013 national and local elections.  
“The 22nd ARMM foundation celebration is more significant this time because it provides us the appropriate avenue to feast over the unprecedented achievements of the Adiong leadership and pay tribute to all individuals and groups that helped us make the difference,” he said.


The law also empowers President Aquino to name OICs who will serve for 21 months starting the end of term of office of incumbent ARMM officials on September 30.  
The successes of the Adiong administration in bringing normalcy back in ARMM and Maguindanao after the infamous Nov. 23, 2009 massacre of 57 people including 32 journalists, and in winning back the trust of the regional populace and the foreign donors’ community are “worth giving the best celebration,” Sinarimbo said.


Three petitions have been submitted to the Supreme Court questioning the constitutionality of the law. (PNA)
The Social Weather Station (SWS) released on Oct. 10 the results of a survey commissioned by the Department of Interior and Local Governments alongside the Asian Foundation and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), showing that 63 percent of the ARMM constituents were “satisfied” with the incumbents’ performance, with only 18 percent “dissatisfied.”
 
The survey result gave credence to earlier expressed “satisfactory” ratings of the operations of the Adiong administration by several foreign donor-institutions including the USAID, the Japan International Cooperation Agency, the Australian government, and agencies of the European Union and the United Nations.
 
Meanwhile, thousands of boxing fans and avid followers of Pacquiao in Davao City will be treated anew with a “ringside view” Sunday when the ring sensation faces off for the third time with his Mexican nemesis at the MGM Grand Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada. (With a report from PNA)


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