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Cotabato local officials reassure support for joint peacebuilding with Moro Fronts
- Jun 20, 2025
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The eight municipalities of Pahamuddin, Kadayangan, Nabalawag, Old Kaabakan, Kapalawan, Malidegao, Tugunan and Ligawasan comprising 63 barangays were formerly part of different towns in Cotabato in Region 12.
Last year, the eight towns were created via enabling measures by the Bangsamoro Transition Authority’s Parliament.
It is public knowledge that both the Moro National Liberation Front and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front have their own communities in the eight towns, known as "peace zones.”
On Sunday, re-elected and newly elected officials in the province, one of them is Midsayap Mayor Rolly Sacdalan have assured Governor, Emmylou Taliño-Mendoza in a dialogue to help push forward her administration’s security and humanitarian programs in the eight fledgling Bangsamoro towns.
“We are happy with this development. Imagine? The barangays covered by these Bangsamoro towns are no longer under the jurisdiction of their local government units but there is still this commitment," Bangsamoro Chief Minister Abdulrauf Macacua said on Sunday.
According to the Philstar.com report, Macacua, also a senior official of the MILF, and BARMM Labor Minister Muslimin Sema, who is chairman of the MNLF, separately told reporters on Sunday that it was for the Cotabato provincial government’s not having terminated its public service activities in the eight Bangsamoro towns that they supported Taliño-Mendoza’s bid for a second term during the May 12 elections.
“The doors to our provincial capitol and the municipal government centers in our province remained open to residents of these Bangsamoro towns even if they are no longer administratively and politically attached to us,” Taliño-Mendoza said.
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