SEAT OF POWER The provincial capitol of Sulu, proven right here in 2022, is a significant landmark within the capital city of Jolo. Regardless of a Supreme Courtroom ruling eradicating Sulu from the Bangsamoro area, the province is predicted to proceed to obtain funds from the nationwide and regional governments to make sure continuity within the supply of fundamental companies. —Bong Sarmiento
COTABATO CITY, BARMM, Philippines —Regardless of the Supreme Courtroom ruling severing Sulu from the Bangsamoro Autonomous Area in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM), the regional authorities nonetheless included Sulu in its funds for packages, actions and initiatives for 2025, Interim Chief Ahod Ebrahim stated.
Ebrahim made this assurance after President Marcos issued a directive in November requiring all native and nationwide authorities entities within the area to proceed the supply of presidency companies in Sulu, pending the Supreme Courtroom’s last resolution on the matter.
The BARMM Interim Chief stated he welcomed the President’s directive, referring to PPBM-2024-1244 that the President issued on Nov. 18.
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Actually, the Bangsamoro authorities had already included packages, actions and initiatives for Sulu within the Bangsamoro’s expenditure program, in keeping with Ebrahim.
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BARMM is looking for a P96.69-billion funds for 2025 and a part of it already included funds for Sulu built-in within the respective budgets of the totally different workplaces of the BARMM.
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Bangsamoro officers have earlier assured there can be no disruption within the launch of salaries and advantages of the some 5,700 employees in several BARMM workplaces in Sulu even with the Supreme Courtroom resolution.
On Sept. 9, the best court docket of the land dominated that Sulu province will not be a part of BARMM because of the results of the 2019 plebiscite the place 54 % of Sulu voters solid adverse votes, successfully opting out of the province’s inclusion within the area.
Ebrahim stated, nonetheless, the Bangsamoro Transition Authority, the interim authorities working the area, has by no means wavered in its dedication to serve the constituents of Sulu.
“We stay dedicated to defending the rights and welfare of the individuals of Sulu and guaranteeing that companies and packages attain them with out disruption,” Ebrahim stated, as he lauded the President’s transfer to make sure the continued supply of presidency companies to Sulu individuals.
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The Bangsamoro authorities has two motions for reconsideration filed and now pending earlier than the Supreme Courtroom.
On Oct. 1, the Bangsamoro Lawyer Common’s Workplace filed a movement for go away to intervene and admit the connected movement for partial reconsideration of the Supreme Courtroom’s resolution.
The primary movement seeks to incorporate BARMM as a celebration to the case in regards to the severance of Sulu from the area whereas the second movement asks the Excessive Courtroom to reinclude the province within the Bangsamoro area.
Ebrahim stated the regional authorities has been intently coordinating with the Division of Price range and Administration (DBM) and different stakeholders to implement the presidential directive with out inconveniencing a “clean” transition ought to the ruling develop into last.
In a Nov. 21 press assertion, Price range Secretary Amenah Pangandaman confused the significance of the President’s directive in sustaining the positive aspects of the peace course of solid in 2014 between the federal government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Entrance that led to the creation of BARMM, particularly these involving the area’s bid for self-governance, peace and financial improvement.
In September, shortly after the Supreme Courtroom launched its ruling, Pangandaman additionally confused that the salaries and advantages of native authorities personnel in Sulu would proceed underneath the province’s personal funds, whereas these for personnel of the provincial area workplaces of the BARMM ministries would proceed to be charged towards the ministries’ budgets.
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The packages, initiatives and actions for Sulu funded underneath the Bangsamoro’s 2024 annual funds also needs to proceed till the finality of the Supreme Courtroom ruling, the DBM chief stated.