By Edwin O. Fernandez

THE acting governor of the newest province in the country and the 6th province of the Bangsamoro Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) is seeking Malacanang intervention on the non-release of budget, including funds for salaries and wages of about 200 civil servants.

was sent to Malacañang.

Under the 2023 General Appropriations Act, Congress allotted P1.8 billion budget for MDN.

“Despite the commencement of corporate existence of Maguindanao del Norte, we are still being questioned,” Sinsuat said.

personalities or agencies that doubt its existence.

acting Gov. Bai Ainee Sinsuat has turned to social media and posted on her Facebook page a statement about non-release of MDN’s national tax allotment share for fiscal year 2023. A separate official communication

“Our assumption has been doubted even to the point of refusing the province to withdraw our own government funds for the people of Maguindanao del Norte,” she said added in her statement without naming

Probe in Adiong ambush zero-in on terror attack, kin says

PROBE on the ambush of Lanao del Sur Governor Bombit Adiong in his province on Friday could get deeper into possible involvement of remnant forces of a local terror group that once placed Marawi City under siege in 2017, officials have hinted.

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By Nash B. Maulana

“We are leaving no stone unturned. We are considering all possibilities,” including the fact that “these people’s target is (generally) the government… Anyone in the government is their enemy,” said Lanao del Sur First District Congressman Zia Ul-

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Alonto Adiong.

Speaker Ali Pangalian Balindong of the Bangsamoro Transitional Authority (BTA) Parliament, said, “the government should act as if no one is safety anymore during this time,” adding that he was also trying

Atty. Mohajiroe M. Lauban, Maguindanao del Norte provincial administrator, said the operation of the province is heading nowhere as it has no funds to support its operation and delivery of services to its over 926,000 population.

In January, he said the provincial government has opened its corporate bank account with the Land Bank of the Philippines-Buluan Branch, Buluan, Maguindanao del Sur.

Lauban said the shares of Maguindanao Norte from the National Tax Allotment for the months of January and February 2023 have been downloaded to the said account.

He said since MDN has no appointed provincial treasurer it requested the Bureau of Local Government Finance (BLGF) Regional Office 12 in Koronadal City “to allow the provincial treasurer of the defunct Province of Maguindanao to perform the duties” while it is still in transition.

BLGF required the submission

LTO in 2 provinces now under BARMM

By John Felix Unson

THE Bangsamoro government finally assumed control Wednesday of the Land Transportation Office in Maguindanao and in Lanao del Sur that insiders first opposed due to misunderstandings on transition modalities.

Paisalin Tago, transportation and communications minister of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, said Wednesday their assumption of the management of the LTO branches in both provinces was premised on the charter of BARMM, the Republic Act 11054.

The LTO in Maguindanao and in

Lanao del Sur were originally under the LTO’s regional office in Administrative Region 12 in Koronadal City.

Officials of LTO-Maguindanao twice resisted the takeover of their office by the Ministry of Transportation and Communications-BARMM owing to what they asserted as lack of “legal imprimatur” from the central office of the Department of Transportation and the Office of the President.

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