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| Written by Gemma Bagayaua | |
| Friday, 24 November 2006 | |
 Barely a month after the creation of the new province was ratified in a referendum, the RLA reportedly approved, with record speed, the creation of four additional municipalities to be carved from remaining Maguindanao towns: Pandag and Mangundadatu, to be taken from the municipality of Buluan; Midtimbang from the town of Talayan; and Talitay from Kabuntalan. As in the creation of the Shariff Kabunsuan province, proponents of the fragmentation bill say that the new municipalities will improve the delivery of services in this severely depressed area. There could be other reasons. Andal Ampatuan, the governor of Maguindanao, reportedly wants his son, Sajid Ampatuan, to be his vice governor. Sajid, who also happens to be the son-in-law of current Maguindanao Vice-Governor Bimbo Sinsuat, is presently vice-mayor of Datu Unsay town. Sinsuat, an Ampatuan ally who belongs to one of the most prominent political families in the area, is set to leave the post as he is about to take office as governor of Shariff Kabunsuan. If one is to follow the succession rule, the provincial board member who garnered the most number of votes in the last elections should be replacing Sinsuat as vice governor. The talk, however, is that the Ampatuans prevailed on Board Member Freddie Mangudadatu and the other board members to give up that right. In exchange, Mangudadatu will become the mayor of one of the four proposed new municipalities. Mangudadatu’s new turf will be carved out of the town of Buluan. Had this happened elsewhere in the country, the mayor of the existing town would have protested if his territory were reduced. Not in this case. After all, the whole area will remain under the family—the mayor of Buluan is Mangudadatu’s brother, Esmael. This is not the first time an existing town in Maguindanao was divided among members of the same family. We previously reported that over half of the bills passed by the RLA pertained to either the creation of new local government units (LGUs) or the renaming of existing ones. Dividing a town doesn’t necessarily increase the collective internal revenue allotment of the new municipalities. But it will still strain the government coffers because new facilities will have to be built for the LGUs. To think that in Maguindanao, a number of the recently created towns don’t even have their own municipal halls yet. INTERACT WITH THIS ARTICLE                |
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