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Government officials together unveiled the Master Development Plan for Camp Abubakar on Jan. 25, 2024 at the headquarters of the 1st Marine Brigade in Barira, Maguindanao del Norte.
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Two town mayors support development plan for erstwhile MILF’s Camp Abubakar
- Jan 27, 2024
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On Wednesday, the Master Development Plan for Camp Abubakar, or MDCA, was launched by officials of the Bangsamoro regional government, local executives, Presidential Peace, Reconciliation and Unity Adviser Carlito GalvezJr. and Brig. Gen. Eric Macaambac of the Navy’s 1st Marine Brigade during a symbolic rite in Barangay Tugaig in the upland Barira town.
Parang Mayor Cahar Ibay told reporters on Thursday that he and other municipal chief executives shall help push the MDCA forward, certain of its positive impact on the lives Maranaw, Iranun and Maguindanaon residents in agricultural enclaves in at least nine municipalities around Camp Abubakar.
“Local executives can even organize a bloc that can help hasten its implementation,” Ibay, whose municipality hosts the Polloc International Seaport close to Camp Abubakar, said while speaking on behalf of mayors who are members of Iranun peace and economic council.
Now a “peace zone,” Camp Abubakar is surrounded by the municipalities of Kapatagan and Butig in Lanao del Sur, Buldon, Barira, Matanog, Parang, Sultan Mastura and Sultan Kudarat in Maguindanao del Norte and Pigcawayan in Cotabato.
The camp, established in the early 1980s by the MILF's founder, the late Islamic theologian Salamat Hashim.
The BARMM government, whose chief minister, Ahod B. Ebrahim is chairman of the MILF’s central committee, will partly bankroll the housing projects for Moro villagers residing around Camp Abubakar, whose center is in Barangay Tugaig, the Philstar.com report also said.
Galvez said that the government-MILF Joint Task Forces on Camps Transformation and officials overseeing Malacañang's Payapa at Masaganang Pamayanan Program and the National Housing authority shall cooperate in implementing the MDCA.
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