Shariff Aguak pushes for 2nd SGLG award

 GOOD GOVERNANCE --- Shariff Aguak Mayor Marop B. Ampatuan is joined here by 2019 SGLG validation team leader Bai Musarapha A. Alim during 'national validation' last August 27. (Gilmhar A. Lao)

SHARIFF AGUAK, Maguindanao --- For the second time around, the local government here attempts to imprint in its annals the Seal of Good Local Governance (SGLG) for this year 2019.

Mayor Marop B. Ampatuan said a group of validators from the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) in Region-12 and Ministry of Local Government (MLG) in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) held its validation last August 27.

Led by its team leader Bai Musarapha A. Alim, the mayor said the validation “went well.”

"The focal persons in the areas of Good Financial Housekeeping, Peace and Order, Social Protection, Environnental Management, Disaster Preparedness, Business Competitiveness, Tourism, Culture and the Arts were all prepared, responsive, and articulate during the validation process," Mayor Ampatuan said.

Mayor Ampatuan said he is optimistic that Shariff Aguak will be included again as one of the many SGLG passers in the whole country as it did in 2018.

For one thing, Shariff Aguak is among the 16 local government units, including the Maguindanao provincial government, that underwent the process of validation as a result of the assessment recommended by the MLG-BARMM to the  national level.

"The result of the validation is expected to be out in the last week of September 2019," Mayor Ampatuan added.

Mayor Ampatuan also thanked the people behind the success of this endeavor. (Gilmhar A. Lao)