COTABATO CITY — A lot has changed for the better over the past six years in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM), a top regional executive said Friday.
“(I think) we have achieved good performance and a functioning regional government through good governance in recent years,” ARMM Governor Mujiv Hataman told reporters here when queried about his utmost contribution to ARMM.
“When we started here, we said that the most essential thing we should do is to make the government functional,” the governor said.
Hataman cited, among others, the Department of the Interior and Local Government’s (DILG) recognition of 22 local government units (LGUs) that received the Seal of Good Local Governance in 2017, the first in the 18-year-old regional autonomous government.
With the feat, Hataman said his office eyes to increase the number of good governance awardees to as many as 50 LGUs out of the 118 towns and cities across ARMM.
To achieve that dream, the governor said he would personally address the issue of absenteeism in some LGUs after he received a memorandum from Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana, Mindanao martial law administrator, instructing the regional governor and provincial governors to supervise local chief executives. (PNA)
