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Volume VIII, No. 234
Moreno graft case dismissed By MARK FRANCISCO Correspondent
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THE Office of the Ombudsman has reversed its earlier stance and dismissed the graft complaint against Mayor Oscar Moreno. In a 13-page document penned by assistant ombudsman Pilarita Lapitan and concurred by Ombudsman Samuel Martires dated February 4 this year, the Tanodbayan discarded its own February 2016 and June 2018 resolutions (after an appeal) that recommended Moreno and then treasurer Glenn Bañez be prosecuted for allowing the city government to settle with food giant Ajinomoto in a tax dispute. It stemmed from a complaint filed by private citizen William Guialani, accusing See DISMISSAL, page 11
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Duterte lauds Misuari’s patience in peace talks
PRESIDNT Rodrigo R. Duterte “admired” Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) founding chairman Nur Misuari’s patience in peace negotiations, Malacañang said on Tuesday. Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo said Duterte and Misuari met at the Malacañan Palace on Monday. “ The President told the chairman that he admired his patience and he apologized for not having implemented or enforced whatever agreements that they had previously with respect, I think, to federalism or something,” Panelo said in a Palace briefing. He said Misuari had no complaints about the composition of the Bangsamoro Transition Authority. “If the MNLF was complaining about it, the chairman did not mention it,” he Nur in Malacañang. President Rodrigo Roa Duterte greets Moro National Liberation Front founding chairman Nur said. Misuari at Malacañan Palace Monday (February 25, 2019). Presidential
Murad names 10 ministers
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Vows government ‘free of all the ills of governance;’
By CAROLYN O. ARGUILLAS
INTERIM Chief Minister Al Haj Murad Ebrahim of the Bangsamoro Transition Authority (BTA), the 80-member body that will govern the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) until June 30, 2022, vowed on Tuesday a government that will “really be free of all the ills of governance,” and named the first set of Cabinet ministers during the turnover rites from the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) to the BARMM at the Shariff Kabunsuan Cultural Complex.
“Now we acknowledge that we are entering another level of our jihad. Our jihad will be more intense and more challenging, our jihad firstly will be against our own self,” Murad said, adding “our enemies are all the ills of governance… our enemy is graft and corruption, our enemy is the manipulation of government, our enemy is nepotism, our enemy is all those ills of government.” In his 24-minute speech, Murad said that aside from taking their oath as BTA members before President in Malacanang on February 22, “we will also take oath
to Allah, over the Koran, Inshallah. This is to ensure to you that, Inshallah, we will work for a government that will really be free of all the ills of governance.” He told reporters after he was ushered into his new office at the Office of the Bangsamoro People by the previous occupant, Mujiv Hataman — the last Governor of the 28-year old ARMM — that they would hold their inaugural session as BTA sometime in March, that he would reside in the Astana, the Governor’s House inside the ARMM compound, and that See NAMES, page 11
Interim Chief Minister Al Haj Murad Ebrahim of the Bangsamoro Transition Authority, the body that will govern the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) until June 30, 2022 vows a government that is “free of all the ills of governance” during the turnover of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao to the BARMM at the Shariff Kabunsuan Cultural Complex in Cotabato City on February 26, 2019. MindaNews photo by Manman Dejeto
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