COTABATO CITY – The City Council here has passed a resolution urging the House of Representatives to create a separate congressional district for Cotabato City.
The city forms part of Maguindanao’s first congressional district, along with 11 towns.
City Councilor Japal Guiani III, author of the proposition, told reporters Thursday that the resolution was channeled through Rep. Ronnie Sinsuat of Maguindanao’s first district.
“We have been dreaming for this for so long,” Cotabato City Vice Mayor Graham Dumama told local reporters. “It’s long overdue. Since my first term in 2010, we were already hoping to have (a) separate House seat."
Guiani said the City Council members approved the resolution unanimously during Tuesday’s regular session.
Dumama said Cotabato City has been qualified since 2015 to become a congressional district based on population, land area, and revenue collections.
Sinsuat said he will file a bill creating the city as a separate congressional district.
Sinsuat, a first-termer member of the House, earlier sponsored a bill seeking to divide Maguindanao into two and create a Western Maguindanao.
Dumama said the more than 300,000 population of Cotabato City have been asking for a separate congressional seat so more developments would come and so that city residents would have a voice in the national legislature.
“Having a separate congressional district has many advantages for the city. For one, it will have its representative in the House, it will have congressional funds,” the vice mayor said.
He added that the House representative will only have the 37 barangays of Cotabato City to “fill up his/her mind” unlike the 11 towns in Maguindanao that occupy his mind at present.
https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1082773
Thursday, October 10, 2019
People Power Revolution: Aftermath
But, the biggest gatherings in the world, a few months after the 1986 revolution, like the anniversary celebration of Catholic Charismatic Renewal group El Shaddai to coincidence with the birthday celebration of televangelist Bro. Mike Velarde in August and the Evangelical Charismatic Christian group Jesus is Lord Church to coincidence with the birthday celebration of televangelist Bro. Eddie Villanueva in October at the Quirino Grandstand, a few years before the January 12-16, 1995 Manila visit of Pope John Paul II for the 10th World Youth Day in Manila, when the largest papal crowd in history and the Philippine Centennial celebration on June 12, 1998 attended by more than four million people and the State Visit and Apostolic Journey of His Holiness Pope Francis to the Philippines 2015 closing mass on January 18, 2015, both the largest historic peaceful gatherings of people in one place for a single event in the world, not only in the Philippines.
Cotabato City calls for creation of own legislative district
COTABATO CITY, Philippines — The city council has drafted a resolution urging Congress to create a lone congressional district to represent its 37 barangays.
Japal Guiani III, a member of the Cotabato City’s 16th Sangguniang Panglunsod, told reporters Thursday the resolution was sent to Rep. Ronnie Sinsuat (Maguindanao 1st District).
Cotabato City is part of the first congressional district of Maguindanao, along with 11 other towns in the province.
Guiani said the council approved the resolution unanimously during a session Tuesday.
Sources from the office of the Department of the Interior and Local Government in Region 12 said Cotabato City has been qualified since 2015 to become its own congressional district based on population, area and revenue collections.
The power to create legislative districts is with the House of Representatives.
Sinsuat earlier sponsord a bill to split Maguindanao into two provinces, one to be named Western Maguindanao.
His proposal aims to group together all of the 11 towns in the first district of Maguindanao under a new Western Maguindanao province.
Guiani said he and other SP members are optimistic that Congress, through the efforts of Sinsuat, will consider the mounting calls for Cotabato City, now with more than 300,000 residents, to have its own congressional seat.
Cotabato City was created through a congressional charter more than five decades ago.
The city is also known as Kuta Wato, or stone fort, which refers to the iconic hill overlooking the Rio Grande de Mindanao and nearby marshes that connect to the 220,000-hectare Liguasan Delta.
Moros opposed to Spanish rule used the stone fort as a staging ground for attacks against the colonizers from the 16th to late 18th century.
https://www.philstar.com/nation/2019/10/10/1959053/cotabato-city-calls-creation-own-legislative-district
Japal Guiani III, a member of the Cotabato City’s 16th Sangguniang Panglunsod, told reporters Thursday the resolution was sent to Rep. Ronnie Sinsuat (Maguindanao 1st District).
Cotabato City is part of the first congressional district of Maguindanao, along with 11 other towns in the province.
Guiani said the council approved the resolution unanimously during a session Tuesday.
Sources from the office of the Department of the Interior and Local Government in Region 12 said Cotabato City has been qualified since 2015 to become its own congressional district based on population, area and revenue collections.
The power to create legislative districts is with the House of Representatives.
Sinsuat earlier sponsord a bill to split Maguindanao into two provinces, one to be named Western Maguindanao.
His proposal aims to group together all of the 11 towns in the first district of Maguindanao under a new Western Maguindanao province.
Guiani said he and other SP members are optimistic that Congress, through the efforts of Sinsuat, will consider the mounting calls for Cotabato City, now with more than 300,000 residents, to have its own congressional seat.
Cotabato City was created through a congressional charter more than five decades ago.
The city is also known as Kuta Wato, or stone fort, which refers to the iconic hill overlooking the Rio Grande de Mindanao and nearby marshes that connect to the 220,000-hectare Liguasan Delta.
Moros opposed to Spanish rule used the stone fort as a staging ground for attacks against the colonizers from the 16th to late 18th century.
https://www.philstar.com/nation/2019/10/10/1959053/cotabato-city-calls-creation-own-legislative-district
Bill filed to make Ipil Regional Center
By Sidney Russell M. Santuyo
The municipality of Ipil sought to become the regional center for Region 9 through House Bill No. 5051 filed in congress recently .
Being the geographical center of the Peninsula, the municipality of Ipil serves as the prime strategic location for the relocation of facilities, government offices and businesses, according to the proposed Bill.
Governor Wilter Yap Palma revealed this during his message at the Sebisyo Caravan led by the Provincial Task Force-End Local Communist Armed Conflict (PTF-ELCAC) held in Guinoman.
Palma said , the provincial government of Zamboanga Sibugay will donate 10 hectares of land for the purpose and that it is willing to assist in the transfer of Regional Offices in the form of infrastructure and personnel compliment .
It can be recalled that Executive Order No. 429 issued by former President Corazon Aquino on October 22, 1990 made Pagadian City, Zamboanga Del Sur, the Regional Center for Region 9 while the city of Zamboanga remained the commercial and Industrial center.
"As a result, various Government Regional Offices are scattered within the Peninsula," the Bill stated, making it inefficient for the citizens to accomplish multiple transactions within agencies and "imposing additional burden to our citizens by compelling them to withstand strenuous travel conditions as well as endure lengthy travel just to conduct their own personal businesses within said offices."
According to the proposed Bill, the municipality of Ipil, being the geographical center of the Peninsula, serves as the prime strategic location for the relocation of facilities, government offices and businesses which greatly improves the accessibility of various government services and heighten the efficiency as a whole.
The bill was received in the House of the Representatives last October 2, 2019. (NBE/JPA/SRMS /PIA9-Zamboanga Sibugay)
The municipality of Ipil sought to become the regional center for Region 9 through House Bill No. 5051 filed in congress recently .
Being the geographical center of the Peninsula, the municipality of Ipil serves as the prime strategic location for the relocation of facilities, government offices and businesses, according to the proposed Bill.
Governor Wilter Yap Palma revealed this during his message at the Sebisyo Caravan led by the Provincial Task Force-End Local Communist Armed Conflict (PTF-ELCAC) held in Guinoman.
Palma said , the provincial government of Zamboanga Sibugay will donate 10 hectares of land for the purpose and that it is willing to assist in the transfer of Regional Offices in the form of infrastructure and personnel compliment .
It can be recalled that Executive Order No. 429 issued by former President Corazon Aquino on October 22, 1990 made Pagadian City, Zamboanga Del Sur, the Regional Center for Region 9 while the city of Zamboanga remained the commercial and Industrial center.
"As a result, various Government Regional Offices are scattered within the Peninsula," the Bill stated, making it inefficient for the citizens to accomplish multiple transactions within agencies and "imposing additional burden to our citizens by compelling them to withstand strenuous travel conditions as well as endure lengthy travel just to conduct their own personal businesses within said offices."
According to the proposed Bill, the municipality of Ipil, being the geographical center of the Peninsula, serves as the prime strategic location for the relocation of facilities, government offices and businesses which greatly improves the accessibility of various government services and heighten the efficiency as a whole.
The bill was received in the House of the Representatives last October 2, 2019. (NBE/JPA/SRMS /PIA9-Zamboanga Sibugay)
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