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Lanao Sultanate urges Senate to pass BBL
of the 16 Royal Houses of the 4 municipalities of ILIGAN City -- The Fed- Lanao, together with the eration of the Royal Sul- 28 Legislative Assemblies tanate of Lanao composed and the 4 places that its By SONNY U. SUDARIA ARMM
June 3, 2015
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boundaries, as well as the different Piliponganan of Sultans of the Province of Lanao del Sur and Lanao
Mar Roxas is LP’s bet for the 2016 elections See sultanate, page A11
By allan m. mediante, Editor-in-chief
GPH, MILF agree to decommission task force
INTERIOR secretary Mar Roxas is LP’s standard bearer for the presidency in the 2016 polls. This was the claim of a Liberal Party (LP) stalwart over the weekend . Budget Secretary Butch Abad said Roxas remains the ruling party’s presidential candidate. See FULL STORY, page A3
Closure of IP school to affect thousands of lumad students
Davao City-- “The closure of our schools is injustice, baseless and a blatant attack against the right of indigenous people to education” this was the statement of Ronnie Garcia, Basic Education Principal of Salugpongan Ta’ Tanu Igkanogon Community Learning Center (STTICLC) after Department of Education Region XI
See closure, page A11
DILG Sec. Roxas has shown that he can still reach out to the masses and inspire them to aspire for the life he enjoys.
Oro has yet to recover 1.5 million vital records Civil Registrar’s Office urges residents to present document owner’s copy
Oro City’s civil registrar’s office is still in a quandary It’s been three years and how to fully reconstruct six months since the dev- more than 1.5 million vital astation of super typhoon records that were damaged Sendong, yet Cagayan de See records, page A11 By URIEL C. QUILINGUING Contributing Editor
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SHOWING their resolve to end the decades-old armed conflict in Mindanao, the Government of the Philippines (GPH) and Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) negotiating panels signed an agreement creating the Task Force for Decommissioned Combatants and their Communities. The new task force is mandated to “undertake all efforts related to socio-economic and development programs” and to “assist the Panels identify and implement socio-economic priorities and development projects” for decommissioned MILF combatants and their communities. The document is guided by the Comprehensive Agreement on the Bangsamoro (CAB) as well as by the terms of reference of the Joint Normalization Committee. The move is part of efforts by both the government and the MILF to kick off a program to hasten the return to civilian life of MILF combatants.
“The new Task Force is part of the continuing effort by the government and the MILF to move forward the other dimensions of the peace agreement, alongside the passage of the law establishing the Bangsamoro government,” said GPH chief peace negotiator Professor Miriam Coronel-Ferrer. Under the CAB, the MILF forces will undertake a gradual decomm i s s i on i n g pro g r a m wherein their weapons will be put beyond use and their combatants will return to normal, productive civilian lives.The decommissioning process should be commensurate to the process of instituting the Bangsamoro Government, addressing other security concerns such as the private armed groups, and transforming MILF camps acknowledged by the Government in 1998 into productive, civilian communities. Moreover, the two
See agree, page A11
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