Regional Chief Minister Ahod “Hadji Murad” Ebrahim has pledged to bring his entire Cabinet in monthly meetings at every component province of the new autonomous region bring the government closer to the people.
Regional Chief Minister Ahod “Hadji Murad” Ebrahim (AFP PHOTO / TED ALJIBE / MANILA BULLETIN)
Regional Chief Minister Ahod “Hadji Murad” Ebrahim (AFP PHOTO / TED ALJIBE / MANILA BULLETIN)
Ebrahim, more known as Chairman Murad of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), made the vow in his first visit in Sulu as public official on Monday to lead the second round of relief assistance to victims of the February 3 fire in Jolo town.
“We’ll make this convergence visit a regular event, perhaps monthly, to truly bring the government closer to people,” Ebrahim told Sulu officials in Pilipino at rites held at the compound in Jolo of the district office of the Ministry of Public Works (MPW) of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM).
“Our ordinary constituents need not visit Cotabato City to ask for attention about individual or collective concerns because the convergent regional cabinet will come to you. You can deal with them personally,” Ebrahim said, citing travel difficulties, especially among the people of distant Basilan, Sulu and Tawi-Tawi island provinces.
He said Monday’s event marked his first appearance in Sulu as a government servant, but quickly added that he used to visit Sulu and the two other island provinces clandestinely during his revolutionary days since late 1960s.
Murad admitted that he and other top leaders of the MILF appointed in the interim government of the BARMM were going through adjustments from being revolutionary fighters for four decades to being government servants.
He said they were also dealing with the plight of some 6,000 permanent workers of the defunct 29-year old Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM), who were laid off last year as a result of the BARMM creation, as mandated by Republic Act 11054 or the Bangsamoro Organic Law of July 2018.
Former ARMM Governor Mujiv Hataman alo Sulu Gov. Sakur Tan, who received Murad and his Cabinet last Monday, had earlier questioned the mass layoff and petitioned for presidential intercession. The petition remains unheeded.
Ebrahim in his brief message said the affected ARMM workers were given substantial separation pays and that some of them were allowed to reapply for appointment in the BARMM bureaucracy.
He pointed out that the BARMM bureaucracy has been hiring workers through its online recruitment portal, which is doing away with the local traditional practices characterized by recommendation from politicians.
He said his administration introduced a “true merit-based system” of recruitment required in moral governance, which is part of the MILF advocacy for Bangsamoro self-determination.
In his speech, Tan assured his administration’s support to the BARMM government and its visions, even as he urged his constituents to do the same.
Tan acknowledged the packages of assistance brought Monday by Ebrahim and his Cabinet, through the BARMM’s Tabang (literally meaning help) projects, for some 2,000 families affected by the conflagration in Jolo last Feb. 3.
A day after the fore incident, a team dispatched by Ebrahim and led by Local Government Minister Naguib Sinarimbo brought in two trucks of relief goods for the same displaced families.
“We’ll make this convergence visit a regular event, perhaps monthly, to truly bring the government closer to people,” Ebrahim told Sulu officials in Pilipino at rites held at the compound in Jolo of the district office of the Ministry of Public Works (MPW) of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM).
“Our ordinary constituents need not visit Cotabato City to ask for attention about individual or collective concerns because the convergent regional cabinet will come to you. You can deal with them personally,” Ebrahim said, citing travel difficulties, especially among the people of distant Basilan, Sulu and Tawi-Tawi island provinces.
He said Monday’s event marked his first appearance in Sulu as a government servant, but quickly added that he used to visit Sulu and the two other island provinces clandestinely during his revolutionary days since late 1960s.
Murad admitted that he and other top leaders of the MILF appointed in the interim government of the BARMM were going through adjustments from being revolutionary fighters for four decades to being government servants.
He said they were also dealing with the plight of some 6,000 permanent workers of the defunct 29-year old Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM), who were laid off last year as a result of the BARMM creation, as mandated by Republic Act 11054 or the Bangsamoro Organic Law of July 2018.
Former ARMM Governor Mujiv Hataman alo Sulu Gov. Sakur Tan, who received Murad and his Cabinet last Monday, had earlier questioned the mass layoff and petitioned for presidential intercession. The petition remains unheeded.
Ebrahim in his brief message said the affected ARMM workers were given substantial separation pays and that some of them were allowed to reapply for appointment in the BARMM bureaucracy.
He pointed out that the BARMM bureaucracy has been hiring workers through its online recruitment portal, which is doing away with the local traditional practices characterized by recommendation from politicians.
He said his administration introduced a “true merit-based system” of recruitment required in moral governance, which is part of the MILF advocacy for Bangsamoro self-determination.
In his speech, Tan assured his administration’s support to the BARMM government and its visions, even as he urged his constituents to do the same.
Tan acknowledged the packages of assistance brought Monday by Ebrahim and his Cabinet, through the BARMM’s Tabang (literally meaning help) projects, for some 2,000 families affected by the conflagration in Jolo last Feb. 3.
A day after the fore incident, a team dispatched by Ebrahim and led by Local Government Minister Naguib Sinarimbo brought in two trucks of relief goods for the same displaced families.
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