BANGSAMORO NEWS UPDATES

COTABATO CITY --- President Rodrigo Duterte is likely to launch the Bangsamoro Transition Authority (BTA) on February 21, officials hinted on Thursday.The BTA will oversee the transition from the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao to the incoming Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, or BARMM.Senior government officials said Thursday preparations are now underway for next week’s symbolic launching of the BTA in Malacañang.The BTA will oversee the operation of BARMM, a product of more than 20 years of peace talks between the government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, pend

MAGUINDANAO ---- President Rodrigo Duterte on Monday urged residents in this province to support the implementation of the Bangsamoro Organic Law.Ratified via a plebiscite on January 21, the BOL, or Republic Act 11054, is the enabling measure for the replacement of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao with a Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, or BARMM.His call for Maguindanao’s Muslim, Christian and Lumad communities to help the BOL takeoff was explicit in his message during his turnover of certificates of land ownership awards, or CLOAs, to landless farmers at the municip

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1. MAS MAHIGPIT na implementasyon ng
martial law, solusyon daw sa mga kaguluhan sa rehiyon, ayon sa dating kalihim
ng DILG.

2. ABOT sa 100 Marijuana plants, binunot
ng mga otoridad sa liblib na Sitio ng Tampakan, South Cotabato

3. DALAWA KATAO, sugatan sa engkwentro
ng mga sundalo at NPA sa Makilala, North Cotabato

MAGUINDANAO-- All is set for the visit of President Rodrigo Duterte to Buluan town Monday, February 11, to grace the Maguindanao provincial Inaul Festival and distribute lands to agrarian reform beneficiaries.Duterte will lead the distribution of certificates of land ownership awards, or CLOAs, to farmers in the presence of provincial and municipal officials facilitating the cultural activities highlighting the Inaul Festival.The week-long festival, the third in three years, will culminate on February 14.The Inaul Festival showcases the iconic Inaul fabric Maguindanaons have been producing

PIKIT, North
Cotabato – The town mayor of this town today said everyone must accept the
results of the plebiscite on Wednesday that that cut the number of villages
under him to more than half.

LANAO DEL SUR --- Residents of the conflict-stricken Marawi City stand to benefit from a P970 million road rehabilitation project funded by the Japanese government.In a statement emailed Thursday to media outfits in central Mindanao, Lanao del Sur Vice Gov. Mamintal Adiong, Jr.

MIDSAYAP,
North Cotabato – The political exercises in 67 villages in seven towns in North
Cotabato was general peaceful and people voted freely, a police official said.

Chief Supt.
Eliseo Tam Rasco, police director for SOCCSKSARGEN region, described the
balloting as peaceful and people were able to vote freely.

There was no
reported violence that could affect or disrupt or endanger the credibility of
the referendum that is as of 5 p.m., Rasco said.

BASILAN --- It was the clatters of bulldozer engines and not artillery blasts that forced remnants of the Abu Sayyaf to abandon their last stronghold in this island province.The construction of the Basilan Transcentral Highway now traversing Sampinit Complex, where the Abu Sayyaf once ran a shadow government and held more than 200 kidnap victims from 1994 to 2014, is now more than 50 percent done.The project, costing more than P1 billion and expected to be completed by June this year, is being funded by the office of the now outgoing Gov.

JOLO, Sulu - Ten of the 18 wounded soldiers who incurred injuries during the armed engagement with the Abu Sayyaf yesterday were recognized by Western Mindanao Command chief Lieutenant General Arnel B.

CAMP SIONGCO,
Maguindanao – The military-led Joint Task Force Central (JTFC) Saturday
launched air strikes against suspected terrorists’ base in Maguindanao, destroying
bunkers and foxholes that could accommodate about 20 terrorists.

Major Arvin John
Encinas, the spokesperson of the 6th Infantry Division, said the
focused military operations were conducted at about 6 a.m. in Sitio Tatak,
Barangay Tugal, Sultan sa Barongis, Maguindanao.