New brgy. hall rises in Bangsamoro village

By Nash B. Maulana

MIDSAYAP, Cotabato—The Bangsamoro autonomous government is constructing a two-layer barangay hall building to be equipped with modern facilities unlike the smaller, already congested old government hall in Barangay Tumbras.

The new hall is symbolic of peace in the surrounding communities, Bangsamoro Transitional Parliament Member Mohammad Kelly Antao said.

Barangay Tumbras and six other villages comprising Midsayap Cluster I of the 63-barangay Special Geographic Area (SGA), now make up a “community of peaceful coexistence between Muslim and Christian residents.”

These communities would also be setting the goals through the future of governance, said In- terior and Local Governments Minister Naguib Sinarimbo of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao.

Sinarimbo said the BARMM barangay clusters in majority Christian settlements in Cotabato Province will set the “future of governance” with innovative setups that would enhance local communities with “enterprising governance/” given their inherent “corporate powers.”

He said this will bring about changes and results in the affairs of LGUs “different from the usual governance.”

“As we operationalize the SGADA (Special Geographic Area Development Authority) you will receive more” (assistance package), Sinarimbo assured recipient-residents of farm and fishery equipment machineries gathered Thursday in Barangay Tumbras.