MILF: ‘Marawi must be quickly rehabilitated and reconstructed’- MILF Chairman

Posted to the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) Website (Oct 16): ‘Marawi must be quickly rehabilitated and reconstructed’- MILF Chairman



Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) Chairman Alhaj Murad Ebrahim said Marawi City must be quickly rehabilitated and reconstructed citing that extremists may use its delay as opportunity for propaganda and recruitment.
During a Donor’s Forum held at Davao City last Thursday (Oct 11), Chairman Murad stressed that rehabilitation of Marawi, the only Islamic City of the country, is both the “right and just thing to do.”

Representatives of the International communities coming from the United Nations (UN), European Union (EU), World Bank, and the embassies of Australia, Brunei, Canada, Japan, Malaysia, Netherlands, Norway, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom and Spain attended the forum.

The activity was aimed to extend assistance to the Bangsamoro Transition Authority, the body that will handle the transition phase from the current Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) to Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM).

Chairman Murad conveyed the 10 priorities in the transition from Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) to BARMM.

Among these is the enactment of priority measures mandated by the Bangsamoro law such as Electoral Code, Civil Service Code, and Administrative Code and the Review and integrate the Bangsamoro Development Plan, the Regional Development Plan of ARMM, the Camp Transformation Plan and other Bangsamoro plans.

The MILF chief added that they will study and design the appropriate bureaucracy for the Bangsamoro Government to ensure the right balance between the size of the bureaucracy and the services that need to be delivered as well as the appropriate skills required of people in the bureaucracy.

He said that there is already a system of cooperation between MILF and development partners that maybe be improved to make it more effective in the present challenges being faced today.

Chairman Murad underscored that part of the priorities is to ensure a productive partnership between the Bangsamoro Government and Development partners as well as the national government to ensure complementation of programs to maximize results.

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