27.05.2015 - 03:32 [ Philippine Star ]

House approves P37-B Bangsamoro funding

Ungab said the P37-billion funding for 2016 is more than P12 billion more than this year’s P24.3-billion budget of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM), which the new Bangsamoro region would replace.
“This is an allocation for peace and development. We are confident that the regional government, when formed, will use the money wisely,” he said.(…)
Moro Islamic Liberation Front chairman Murad Ebrahim has been invited to address the foreign ministers of the 57-state Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) during its 42nd Session of the Council of Foreign Ministers to be held in Kuwait starting today.