MINDANAO DAILY TRUTH | JUSTICE | PROGRESS
Volume XII, No. 049
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Tuesday, September 13, 2022
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Marcos to address Bangsamoro Transition Authority in Cot. City By CAROLYN O. ARGUILLAS MindaNews
DAVAO CITY – President Ferdinand Marcos, Jr. is the special guest at the inaugural session of the Parliament of the new Bangsamoro Transition Authority (BTA) on Thursday, September 15 in Cotabato City, Presidential Peace Adviser Carlito Galvez said. The President will address the 80-member transition body that, for the first time since 2019, is represented by all the Moro liberation fronts and factions. Under the Comprehensive Agreement on the Bangsamoro, the peace agreement signed by the government and Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) in March 2014 and its enabling law, RA 11054, the BTA will be led by the MILF The MILF-le d BTA (referred to as BTA2 to distinguish it from BTA1 under the Duterte administration) is represented by 55 members of the Moro liberation fronts: 41 from the MILF, seven from the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) faction under
Muslimin Sema and the late Yusop Jikiri and seven from the MNLF faction under Nur Misuari, including Misuari’s two children, Abdulkarim and Nureddha. The rest of the members are from various sectors. In BTA1, only the MILF and MNLF under Sema-Jikiri were represented as Nur did not nominate anyone from his group. Galvez met the Members of Parliament from the MNLF factions on August 18 separately and together and both groups reached an agreement to do away with faction-labeling. On Sunday, during the visit of interim Bangsamoro Chief Minister and MILF chair Ahod “Al Haj Murad” Ebrahim to the residence of Misuari, the MNLF founding chair confirmed his attendance to the inaugural session. “I will be there, Inshallah,” he told Ebrahim. Sema will also be present at the inaugural as chair of his group and as Minister of Labor at the BARMM. “Social meeting” Galvez announced the date of the inaugural session while in Davao City See ADDRESS, page 11
President Bongbong Marcos convened with Cagayan de Oro Rep. Rufus Rodriguez and some members of Congress September 9, in Malacanang Palace. Rep. Rodriguez expressed his gratitude to PBBM for the invitation and pledged to support the president’s legislative agenda. He likewise thanked the president for his pronouncements on the areas of tourism development, infrastructure projects particularly the Mindanao railway, and the security of the exclusive economic zone in the West Philippine Sea.
SC commits to spread peace in M’nao Rodriguez asks PNP to fund city police cars, communication equipment and acquisition of CHIEF Justice Alexander G. Gesmundo lot; Moves to approve P296-B budget for DILG and the Associate Justice of Supreme Court By ASANGAN T. MADALE Contributor
told the audience that the Supreme Court is committed to actively campaign for the spread and attainment of peace in Mindanao during an unprecedented visit by the Members of Court En Banc in Mindanao. This commitment was made during their visit in Marawi to award the historical makers of the two Mindanao State University (MSU) campuses - MSU-Iligan Institute of Technology and MSU-General Santos , two of the 29 tdesting sities nationwide of the 2020/21 Bar Examinations, the first digitalized and regionalized Bar Exams in the country, Dr. Norhibab Brodi, Dean MSU Marawi College of Law. See COMMITS, page 11
Chief Justice Alexander G. Gesmundo of SC commits to spread peace in Mindano during the awarding ceremony held at MSU Main Intdernational convention center recently. (Contributed photo/ATM)
CAGAYAN de Oro 2nd District Rep. Rufus Rodriguez attended the budget hearing of the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) last September 1, where here raised the concerns of different attached agencies under the DILG in CdeO. He pointed out the need of P30 million required to purchase the lot currently occupied by the PNP Headquarters (Maharlika) in Barangay Carmen. As a response, PNP Chief
General Rodolfo Azurin Jr. promised to coordinate closely with DPWH-10 for the funds needed to complete the PNP-10 headquarters in Camp Alagar. Rodriguez, as a member of the Regional Advisory Group for Police Transformation Development (RAGPTD), requested the PNP chief to allocate necessary funds for the establishment of a P29 million communication system that would link all borders of Northern Mindanao, including
the provincial, municipal, and city police offices and all police stations to the regional office in CdeO. He further requested 5 additional police cars for Cagayan de Oro City Police Office (COCPO) which will be distributed among the following units: 1 for the city mobile force, 1 for the mobile patrol unit, 1 for the traffic unit, and 2 for the regional headquarters. General Azurin committed to provide the cars as See ASKS, page 11