REPLACEMENT --- Local officials of Northern Kabuntalan, Maguindanao prepare for the regular flag-raising ceremony in front of the town hall last August 17, sans one of its councilors who was slain in a drug buy-bust operation in Cotabato City the day before. Northern Kabuntalan Mayor Ramil Dilangalen said the town council is leaving the decision to Maguindanao Governor Mariam Sangki-Mangudadatu to choose the replacement for Councilor Jamar Nandang who was killed in a drug sting operation carried out by members of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao. (Photo courtesy of Northern Kabuntalan LGU, MINDANAO EXPOSE').
COTABATO CITY --- The decision as to who would take the vacant seat in the town council left by a slain Maguindanao town councilor is best left to Maguindanao Governor Mariam Sangki-Mangudadatu.
Mayor Ramil Dilangalen of Northern Kabuntalan, Maguindanao, said this after Councilor Jamar Nandang was slain during an anti-drug operation here last August 16.
Agents of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao shot and killed Nandang during the drug buy-bust operation when he allegedly resisted arrest and traded shots with law enforcers.
“This case is not covered by the law of succession despite Nandang being the number one councilor since there’s no vacancy in the next higher position,” Dilangalen said in an interview with reporters here Wednesday.
He expressed hope that the governor would soon name an appointed council member so legislative work would continue unhampered.
Nandang’s political party or the incumbent leadership of Northern Kabuntalan may recommend for his replacement in the town lawmaking body but Dilangalen said he and the local officials decided to leave the matter to the governor.
Nandang was serving his second term as a town lawmaker up to the time of his death. (NOEL PUNZALAN, PNA, MINDANAO EXPOSE'
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