Cotabato City—Leaders of the new Bangsamoro government have urged constituents of the country’s predominantly Muslim region to help establish transparency in governance from the local level.
Chief Minister Hadji Murad Ebrahim of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao made the call as he officially launched last week the Bangsamoro Full Disclosure Portal of the Ministry of the Interior and Local Government.
MILG Minister Naguib Sinarimbo said the FDP mandates LGUs to post in three conspicuous places information such as annual budget, bids, appropriations and other fiscal ordinances. The same information will be uploaded online and will be accessible to the public on FDP.
Sinarimbo said the new autonomous government is also working with the military through the 6th Infantry Division under Major General Cirilito Sobejana “to optimize the presence and performance of local chief executives in the region.”
Ebrahim asked people to help the MILG monitor compliance of LGUs with the FDP requirements.
“The FDP also provides a complaint box to which people may send their complaint and we will respond,” Sinarimbo said.
This move by the new regional government is consistent with his policy on transparency and drive towards moral governance, Ebrahim pointed out.
The MILF under Ebrahim has assumed leadership of the newly created BARMM, which is run by the Bangsamoro Transitional Authority.
President Rodrigo Duterte has appointed 77 representatives from the MILF, the government, the Moro National Liberation Front and members from the settlers and indigenous peoples communities.
Meanwhile, the BARMM environment minister on Monday lauded the league of mayors in Maguindanao for campaigning against the posting of campaign materials along major thoroughfares of the province.
Minister Abdulrauf Macacua of the Ministry of Environment, Natural Resources and Energy personally thanked Mayor Freddie Mangudadatu of Mangudadatu town for his active campaign against displaying and nailing campaign materials on trees.
Mangudadatu, president of the league of mayors in the province and running for governor of Maguindanao, recently met with Macacua and agreed to work together in pushing forward the BARMM’s environmental-protection initiative.
Over the weekend, Macacua led MENRE-BARMM personnel, along with workers of the Commission on Elections, in removing posters and campaign materials placed on trees — others even nailed on the trunk of trees — on the stretch of the highway from Cotabato City to Datu Abdullah Sangki in Maguindanao.
Macacua said there are other areas where political aspirants can display their posters other than trees.
“Spare our trees, instead, help plant more of them,” Macacua told local candidates and their supporters. With PNA”‹
