From the Website of MILF
Maguindanao gov rallies BTA support
Cotabato City (February 5, 20210—Maguindanao Governor Bai Mariam Sangki
Mangudadatu has asked lawmakers to prioritize passage of the proposed
measure seeking to extend the term of the Bangsamoro Transition
Authority (BTA).
Mangudadatu on Friday said the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region
in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) needed more time at its infancy to make up
for unprecedented changes caused by the onslaught of the covid19
pandemic.
The lady governor said lawmakers will
understand that deadlines set by Republic Act 11054, the Bangsamoro
Organic Law (BOL) prior to the pandemic, could no longer be doable under
the present situation.
Maguindanao Congressman Esmael
“Toto” Mangudadatu said as the author of House Bill 8116, seeking to
amend the BOL and extend BTA term to three more years, he was optimistic
that his dialogue with fellow lawmakers could generate support for the
timely passage of the measure.
BARMM Interior and
local governments Minister Naguib Sinarimbo said when he attended a
recent meeting with lawmakers in Manila, the mood in the Senate
concerning the BARMM-BTA extension was cordial, adding that the proposed
measures may eventually be forwarded to appropriate levels, including
Committee on Local Governments chaired by Senator Francis Tolentino.
Also,
lawmakers from the two Lanao provinces—Rep. Ansaruddin Alonto Adiong
(First District Lanao Sur), Rep. Yasser Alonto Balindong (Second
District Lanao Sur) and First District of Lanao del Norte Rep. Khalid
Dimaporo— also have expressed or even committed to support the House
Bills seeking for BTA term extension, Sinarimbo said.
On
Thursday, Mayor Victor Samama of Datu Piang, Maguindanao said that old
town’s Municipal Council also “has passed resolution expressing support
for the extension of the term of the Bangsamoro Transition Authority to
three years, in order to give it more time to put in place programs on
Moral Governance.”
Congressman Mangudadatu said one
possible hindrance could be a resolution filed by Basilan Rep. Mujiv
Hataman, asking the House leadership to place BARMM under review for
accomplishment in the last two years.
But in Basilan,
Lamitan City Mayor Rosita Furigay wrote BARMM Chief Minister Ahod
Balawag Ebrahim that she and her fellow officials, as well as the city
constituents, were supportive of the BTA extension.
BTA
Parliament Member Jose Lorena said he wanted to clarify that the
interim BTA has hardly reached its second year of existence, considering
that it was inaugurated in February 2020, organized in March, funded by
the national government in July and started being operational also in
July 2019 when Covid19 struck to change the world.
The
Mangudadatus of Maguindanao and their allies have separately called for
support to the proposed extension of the BTA’s three-year tenure, which
is being pushed in the House of Representatives in three bills filed so
far. House Bills 8116 and 8117, filed on December 1, 2020, by Rep.
Loren Legarda (Antique, Lone District) and Rep. Esmael G. Mangudadatu
(Maguindanao, 2nd District), respectively.
HB 8161
was filed on December 7, 2020 by the House Majority Leader, Rep.
Ferdinand Martin G. Romualdez (Leyte, 1st District), and the fourth, HB
8222, was filed on December 14, 2020 by Rep. Khalid Q. Dimaporo (1st
District, Lanao del Norte).
As early as October 2019,
the Sangguniang Panlalawigan of Maguindanao made the official
endorsement via resolution to Congress for the extension of the BRA from
2022 to 2025.
In July 2020, the Tawi-Tawi chapter of
the League of Municipalities of the Philippines also resolved to push in
Congress the grant of extension to the BTA. In October 2020, the
Mindanao Peoples’ Caucus, peace advocacy group, made a similar
recommendation from its assessment in 21 focus group discussions from
across the BARMM, during a review of the BTA’s performance up to that
time.
MILF Website
Article links:
http://www.luwaran.com/news/article/2274/maguindanao-gov-rallies-bta-support
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