North Cotabato turns over 63 barangays to BARMM

HISTORICAL EVENT ---- North Cotabato acting Governor Emmylou “Lala” Taliño-Mendoza hands over the symbolic  “key of responsibility” to Chief Minister Ahod Balawag Ebrahim during turn-over on November 20 of the 63 villages in North Cotabato that voted “yes” to inclusion in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao earlier this year. Joining them are Ministry of Basic Higher and Technical Education Minister Mohagher Iqbal   and acting Vice-Governor Shirlyn Macasarte-Villanueva. (PHOTO BY ZSDIOLANAN / MINDANAO EXPOSE’)

COTABATO   CITY  ---  The province of North Cotabato officially turned   over last November 20 the 63 barangays from its six towns to the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) that voted “yes”to the inclusion during a plebiscite held in February 2019.

The   turn-over   ceremony   was   headed   by   BARMM   Chief   Minister   Ahod   Balawag Ebrahim   together   with   North   Cotabato   acting   Governor   Emmylou   “Lala”   Taliño-Mendoza.

Ebrahim received the symbolic “key of responsibility” from Mendoza during simple rites held at the Shariff Kabunsuan Cultural Complex.