COTABATO CITY --- Rep. Esmael Mangudadatu filed Monday House Bill 3054 grouping together all 11 towns in the first district of Maguindanao into a chartered “Maguindanao North” province.
If approved by the House of Representatives, the now almost five-decade Maguindanao shall retain as its territory all 25 towns in its second congressional district.
The 30-page draft bill also recommended Sultan Kudarat town as capital of the proposed Maguindanao North province, according to Mangudadatu’s chief of staff, lawyer Kirby Abdullah.