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COTABATO CITY – An official is optimistic the 80-member parliament of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) will approve the bill creating the regional population commission.
Kadil Sinolinding, Jr., a physician and member of the parliament, said on Friday, February 3, he is anticipating the parliament will give its “imprimatur” to Bill 110 which seeks to create the population commission.
“The proposed commission is essential to the formulation of socio-economic programs needed to hasten the attainment of peace and sustainable development in all provinces and cities in BARMM,” Sinolinding said.
The BARMM covers the provinces of Maguindanao, Lanao del Sur, Basilan, Sulu, and Tawi-Tawi and the cities of Cotabato, Lamitan, and Marawi, still reeling from the adverse effects of decades of conflict.
Two other members of the BARMM parliament, lawyers Suharto Ambolodto, a Maguindanaon, and Paisalin Tago, a Maranao, had separately assured of their support for the enactment of the bill into law.
“Such a commission can be a good partner of the Ministry of Transportation and Communications in formulating policies pertaining to public welfare in line with the ministry’s functions and public service goals,” Tago said.
Tago, also a member of the BARMM parliament, serves concurrently as transportation and communications minister.
The proposed regional population commission shall be attached to the Bangsamoro Planning and Development Authority, according to proponents.
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It shall operate like the national government’s Population Commission, which is under the supervision of the National Economic Development Authority (NEDA).
“Having that regional population commission can also make good the planning and implementation of the programs of the regional health ministry,” Sinolinding, the former health secretary of the now defunct Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM), said.
Local executives in the Bangsamoro region favor the creation of the regional population commission as envisioned by the bill.
“We want that created soon,” Mayor Marshall Sinsuat of Datu Blah Sinsuat said on Friday.
The 45 barangay chairpersons in Lamitan City and their chief executive, Mayor Roderick Furigay, had also pledged support for the creation of the regional population commission.
“Proposals like that deserve our support,” Furigay said. (JOHN UNSON)
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