Finance Secretary Carlos Garcia Dominguez III (seated right) was proclaimed Datu last January by HRH Sultan Firdausi Ismail Yahya Abbas, Sultan of Lanao, which to the Bangsa Mranaw (Mranaw People), is the land of the four kingdoms of Lanao (Pat-a-Pangampong a Ranao,) extending from Lanao del Sur to the province of Bukidnon. Gracing the event was HRH Sultan Mohammad Fuad Abdullah Kiram, Sultan of Sulu and Sabah, and his son Al Mezzheer Kiram, the Rajah Muda. Sultan Fuad’s late father, Sultan Esmail Kiram I, authorized the Philippines in 1962 to claim Sabah, and his older brother, the late Sultan Mahakuttah Kira, was the last Sultan of Sulu to be officially recognized by the government of the Philippines. In attendance were Datu Luis Agimuddin Delgado III, great-grandson of Sultan Jainal Abirin of Sulu and North Borneo, whose great grandfather was also Sultan of Sulu and North Borneo, Sultan Shakirullah.