Duterte wants Moro communities developed during his term

COTABATO CITY --- President Rodrigo Duterte on Saturday urged Moro sectors to embrace peace which he promised to help foster in the troubled south through socio-economic and humanitarian interventions.
Duterte aired his appeal to leaders from across the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao during his visit to Cotabato City Saturday to lead the launching of programs meant to address underdevelopment in Moro communities and in poor areas in Administrative Regions 9, 10 and 12.He promised to allocate more funds needed to address poverty in ARMM, which covers Maguindanao and Lanao del, Sur, which are both in mainland Mindanao, and the island provinces of Basilan, Sulu and Tawi-Tawi.In a message, ARMM Gov. Mujiv Hataman assured Duterte of the regional government’s commitment to address socio-economic and security concerns besetting the region’s culturally-diverse communities.The Hataman administration had invested more than P10 billion for vital infrastructures, including roads, bridges and seaports in far-flung areas in the five provinces in the autonomous region in the past four years.Hataman said he and members of his cabinet are grateful to Duterte for keeping his campaign promise to focus on helping the Moro sectors bounce back from the adverse effects of conflicts and calamities. I want incidence of hunger stopped, Duterte told ARMM officials in a speech after the launching of Malacañang and ARMM’s bilateral anti-poverty programs in the autonomous region.
The event was held at the 300-seater Shariff Kabunsuan Cultural Complex inside the 32-hectare ARMM compound in Cotabato City.Also present in the activity were Governors Jim Hataman of Basilan and Esmael Mangudadatu of Maguindanao, Deputy Speaker for Mindanao Sandra Sema, Representatives Ruby Sahali of Tawi-Tawi and Monir Arbison of Sulu, Tawi-Tawi Gov. Rashidin Matba and Cotabato City Mayor Cynthia Guiani-Sayadi. Duterte also called on Congress to put up a legislative framework for a federal government which he said is the easier means of achieving peace and development in predominantly Moro areas.
I will improve the Moro homeland in Mindanao during my term, he said.

He said it is important for the local communities to support his bid for a peaceful closure to the secessionist problem hounding the country’s south.Duterte said he has high regard for the welfare of the Moro people owing to his having had an ethnic Maranaw grandmother.