COTABATO CITY—The seat of the Moro autonomous region on Tuesday (Dec. 15) became officially part of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM).
Interior and Local Government Secretary Eduardo Ano formally turned over supervision of the city to the BARMM Ministry of Interior and Local Government (MILG) at a ceremony in the Shariff Kabunsuan Cultural Complex here.
Ao also turned over supervision of 63 villages in six towns of Cotabato province which, along with the city, voted to become part of BARMM at a plebiscite in 2019 to ratify the Bangsamoro Organic Act.
As part of the handover, Ao transferred the records and assets of the former DILG region…
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