Cotabato road projects in support of Mindanao peace process completed

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COTABATO CITY — Local executives launched on Tuesday, January 7, four newly accomplished barangay road projects in Kabacan town in Cotabato, implemented in support of the socio-economic agenda of the Mindanao peace process.

Kabacan Mayor Evangeline Guzman told reporters on Wednesday, January 8, that they are grateful to the office of Cotabato Gov. Emmylou Taliño Mendoza for having concreted the farm-to-market roads in Upper Paatan, Lower Paatan, Bannawag and Magatos that connects Moro and non-Moro farmers to the markets in their town center where they sell their farm products.

Guzman said Mendoza also led during the same event the launching of her administration’s newly accomplished multi-purpose building in Barangay Malanduage, also home to mixed Moro and non-Moro villagers.

The mayor said the facility could be used as a venue for Muslim-Christian peace dialogues and for meetings of barangay leaders together implementing their local government unit’s socio-economic projects in the area.

Guzman and her constituent barangay leaders in Upper Paatan, Lower Paatan, Bannawag, Magatos and Malanduage told reporters that the office of Mendoza spent P47 million for the projects.

“These roads are now ‘all-weather roads,’ something that farmers in these four barangays had wished for,” Guzman said.

Mendoza said the projects are meant to boost the mobility of farmers in the beneficiary barangays, which are covered by the separate peace overtures of Malacañang with the Moro National Liberation Front and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front.

Mendoza and Guzman are both staunch supporters of the peace and development agenda of the government’s separate peace agreements with the MNLF and the MILF, whose leaders are overseeing the public service thrusts of the now five-year regional government of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao.

Kabacan has several barangays that are now under the BARMM government after residents voted in favor of the inclusion of their domains in the Bangsamoro region’s core territory during a plebiscite in 2019, as part of the implementation of the MILF’s two compacts with the national government, the 2012 Framework Agreement on Bangsamoro and, subsequently, the 2014 Comprehensive Agreement on Bangsamoro. 

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