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19July
Bangsamoro Education Minister Mohagher Iqbal had been retained, as Chief Minister Abdulrauf Macacua declined his resignation
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Iqbal has been serving as education minister of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao since its creation in 2019.
On Wednesday, Myra Borja Mangkabung, superintendent of schools in Lamitan City said that she was thankful that Macacua rejected Iqbal’s resignation.
Philstar.com in a report on July 16 said that officials and employees of the Ministry of Higher, Basic and Technical Education-BARMM in the provinces of Maguindanao del Sur, Maguindanao del Norte, Lanao del Sur, Basilan and Tawi-Tawi and the cities of Lamitan, Marawi and Cotabato had posted on their Facebook their appreciation of the retention of Iqbal as regional education minister.
“We are happy with the reinstatement of Iqbal as education minister,” Maguindanao del Norte Vice Gov. Marshall Sinsuat and Cotabato City Mayor Mohammad Ali Matabalao told reporters separately in an interview.
"We had wished for that. He should stay there and continue working for the educational advancement of the Muslim, Christian and the non-Moro indigenous communities in the Bangsamoro region," Matabalao said as quoted by Philstar.com.
Health Minister Kadil Sinolinding Jr., whose courtesy resignation Macacua had earlier declined, said he is glad with Iqbal’s retention as education minister through a memorandum Macacua signed on Monday, July 14.
“I’m sure that the education programs of the MBHTE-BARMM that he had pioneered will continue, him being at the helm of the ministry,” Sinolinding said.
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