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Showing posts with label Maguindanao. Show all posts
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Friday, August 12, 2022

Maguindanao flooding displaces 7,000 families


FLOODED SCHOOL. A school in Datu Montawal, Maguindanao, is submerged in floodwaters following heavy rains Tuesday (Aug. 9, 2022). All the town’s 11 barangays were submerged in floodwaters, prompting the local government to distribute relief packs to some 7,000 affected families in the area. Photo courtesy of Datu Montawal MDDRO via Philippine News Agency


By Franz R. Sumangil, Manila Times


MORE than 7,000 families have been displaced by flooding that hit Datu Montawal town in Maguindanao province last Tuesday, August 9.

Balumol Kadiding, municipal disaster officer of Datu Montawal, on Thursday said most of the flood victims have moved to safer grounds.

"However, many of them are home-based and are just waiting for the water to recede," Kadiding also said, adding that no casualty was reported.

All the town's 11 barangay (villages) were flooded after the Kabacan River overflowed because of heavy downpour in Bukidnon and North Cotabato.

Montawal, a town with a population of over 37,300 per 2020 census, is beside the Kabacan River and also near the Malitubog-Maridagao water channels.

Kadiding said flooding has been a recurring problem of Datu Montawal as the town served as a catch basin of river water from upstream or from North Cotabato and Bukidnon.

The water from the river flows toward the Maguindanao marshland.

Kadiding said ongoing relief operations will cushion the impact of the calamity on affected families.

He added that the town disaster council is set to convene anytime to consider recommending the declaration of a state of calamity.

Meanwhile, the provincial government of North Cotabato conducted a series of relief operations over the weekend for flood victims in the towns of Kabacan and Pikit.

In two flood-affected villages in Pikit, 559 families in Silik village were given relief aid while 90 families in Dalingaoen village received food packages and were also visited by Cotabato Gov. Emmylou Taliño-Mendoza.

Sittie Eljori Antao-Balisi, Cotabato first district board member, assured the flood victims that the provincial government will keep on extending public service to residents of the province.

Silik village chairman Benzar Mangansakan expressed his gratitude to Mendoza for the assistance given by the provincial government.


Floods ruin farms in 3 Ifugao villages

Mangansakan said the relief aid greatly helped the residents as their primary source of food is adversely affected by the flooding.

The relief campaign was spearheaded by the Provincial Social Welfare and Development Office in cooperation with the Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction Management Office and Pikit Municipal Social Welfare and Development Office.

Saturday, May 29, 2021

Duterte signs law splitting Maguindanao into 2 provinces


PRESIDENT Rodrigo Duterte has signed into law a measure dividing Maguindanao into two provinces.

Republic Act 11550 creates Maguindanao del Norte and Maguindanao del Sur provinces.

Maguindanao del Norte includes the towns of Barira, Buldon, Datu Blah Sinsuat, Datu Odin Sinsuat, Kabuntalan, Matanog, Northern Kabuntalan, Parang, North Upi, Sultan Kudarat, Sultan Mastura, and Talitay. Its capital is Datu Odin Sinsuat.

The municipalities of Ampatuan, Buluan, Datu Abdulla Sangki, Datu Anggal Midtimbang, Datu Hoffer Ampatuan, Datu Montawal, Datu Paglas, Datu Piang, Datu Salibo, Datu Saudi Ampatuan, Datu Unsay, Gen. Salipada K. Pendatun, Guindulungan, Mamasapano, Mangudadatu, Pagalungan, Paglat, Pandag, Rajah Buayan, Sharif Aguak, Sharif Saydona Mustafa, Sultan sa Barongis, Talayan, and South Upi will be Maguindanao del Sur. Its capital is Buluan.

The Commission on Elections will supervise a plebiscite within 90 days from the effectivity of the law. The plebiscite will allow Maguindanao residents to ratify the law.

If the law is ratified, residents will elect governors, vice governors, members of the provincial board and other provincial officials during the May 2022 elections.

Maguindanao Representative Esmael “Toto” Mangudadatu, author of the bill, was elated by the passage of the law.

“Alhamdullilah, Alhamdullilah! Finally, the President has already signed into law the bill, May Allah bless and prosper our sincerest aspirations for the welfare and development of Maguindanao,” Mangudadatu said. (Third Anne Peralta-Malonzo, SunStar Philippines)

Thursday, February 4, 2016

Maguindanao Farmers Lose Crops Due to Drought

 (philstar.com) 

Firemen fight a grassfire at the border of Maguindanao and North Cotabato provinces, where vast swaths of rice and corn farms had been scorched by a dry spell since January. Philstar.com/John Unson
MAGUINDANAO, Philippines - Farmers in 17 of Maguindanao’s 36 towns lost their rice and corn crops to the now two-month dry spell, feared to cause widespread hunger without downpours until summer.
Field workers are still validating reports on the extent of crop damage in the other 19 Maguindanao towns, according to provincial officials and the agriculture department of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM)
The provincial board, chaired by Maguindanao Vice Gov. Lester Sinsuat, declared the entire province last week under state of calamity to maximize utilization of funds for relief missions in affected peasant communities in drought-stricken areas.
Badly affected by the calamity are the municipalities of Ampatuan, Datu Unsay, South Upi, Mamasapano, Montawal, Guindulungan, Talayan, Shariff Saidona, Datu Abdullah Sangki and Datu Anggal Midtimbang in the second district of Maguindanao.
Rice and corn farms in seven towns in the first district of Maguindanao, Datu Odin Sinsuat, Kabuntalan, Northern Kabuntalan, North Upi, Buldon, Sultan Mastura and Sultan Kudarat, were also scorched by the drought.
Maguindanao Gov. Esmael Mangudadatu on Thursday told reporters the province would really suffer from the drought because no less than 70 percent of local farmers rely on propagation of rice and corn as main sources of income.
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“Before January ended, our estimate of crop damage is already P120 million and its rising,” Mangudadatu said.
He said he is thankful to the provincial board for acting immediately on his request to declare the province under state of calamity to hasten the delivery of humanitarian services to affected communities.
The governor also cautioned residents of Maguindanao’s North Upi, South Upi and Datu Blah Sinsuat towns against eating improperly cooked “Krut,” which is poisonous if not immersed in running water for 12 hours before cooking.
Ethnic T’durays in the three towns traditionally gathers Krut during the dry seasons as an alternate staple to cope up with hunger resulting from loses in their short-term crops.
Krut, a drought-tolerant yam, produces more tubers during the dry season, an alternate staple for ethnic T’durays, whenever droughts scorch their farmlands.
Most of those who fell ill from eating improperly cooked Krut are Visayan settlers that lack expertise on how to remove the toxins from its soft, potato-like pulp.
Rats had also destroyed vast swaths of rice and corn farms in Maguindanao last January.
Mangudadatu said the provincial government’s emergency response team led by Maguindanao’s chief budget officer, Lynette Estandarte, is now formulating contingency measures meant to cushion the impact of the drought to local peasant communities.
Members of the ARMM’s Humanitarian Emergency Assistance and Response Team (HEART) initially inspected early this week hinterland Maguindanao towns devastated by the drought as a requisite for the conduct of relief missions.
The HEART, operating under the ministerial supervision of ARMM Gov. Mujiv Hataman, is now preparing for relief operations in Maguindanao and other provinces of the autonomous region where farmers also suffered losses due to the drought. 

Saturday, July 18, 2015

Former Maguindanao Governor Ampatuan, 74, Died

 

Andal Ampatuan Sr., patriarch of the Ampatuan clan of Maguindanao and one of the principal accused in the deaths of 58 people in 2009 in the worst case of election-related violence in Philippine history, died on Friday, July 17.


Andal Ampatuan Sr., in this file photo, is wheeled out of Pasay Regional Trial Court after an electoral sabotage hearing in 2012. He pleaded not guilty to the charges he has been accused of together with ex-Pres. Gloria Arroyo, ex-Comelec chair Benjamin Abalos, and election supervisor Lintang Bedol. Danny Pata
Ampatuan, former governor of Maguindanao province, was vice mayor of Maganoy town — now called Shariff Aguak — before the People Power revolution of 1986. 

Malacañang appointed him acting mayor of the town after the revolution.

Journalist Ellen Tordesillas wrote shortly after the 2009 massacre that "from then on, Andal Sr. never looked back." In the 1988 elections, Andal Sr. was elected as mayor and, Tordesillas writes, "was also charged for the murder of his poll rival, Surab Abutasil."

From 1988 to 1998, the Ampatuan patriarch served as mayor before running, and winning as governor of Maguindanao province. In the meantime, other members of the clan ran for, and were elected to, various local posts.

It was in 2001, after another event on EDSA ended the administration of another president, that Ampatuan and his clan further solidified their hold on the province.

According to a Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism report published in 2008, the clan managed to do so by maintaining a huge armed group and by maintaining close ties with Malacañang.

"To some political analysts, it is easy to explain why the Ampatuans command solid hold on Maguindanao: The clan enjoys close ties with the Palace in faraway Manila, simply because the clan has managed to deliver the votes for administration candidates," PCIJ reported then.

Citing a report by the Center for People Empowerment in Governance, the PCIJ report said the Ampatuans helped then President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo "ensure her influence over the whole of Mindanao."

With around 200 armed men in its civilian volunteer organization — private armed groups authorized by executive order — the clan also "support[ed] the internal security requirement of the capitol or the municipio" while also discouraging dissent and opposition, the report said.

That opposition included the Mangudadatu clan, former political allies of the Ampatuans, who decided to field Buluan Vice Mayor Esmael Mangudadatu in the 2010 gubernatorial elections.

On November 23, 2009, a convoy carrying journalists, lawyers, and relatives — including Vice Mayor Mangudadatu's wife and his sister — headed to the Commission on Elections office in Shariff Aguak to formalize his candidacy for governor.

The convoy did not reach town.

Andal Sr., sons Andal "Unsay" Ampatuan Jr. and Zaldy, and more than 100 others have since been charged with murder in connection with the massacre, where 58 people, including more than 30 journalists, were killed.

He had also been charged with electoral sabotage for allegedly manipulating elections for the Arroyo administration.

Arroyo allegedly instructed him over the phone to deliver a 12-0 victory for senatorial bets of the administration in the 2007 elections.

His co-accused included former President Arroyo and former poll chairman Benjamin Abalos. —KG, GMA News

Saturday, March 21, 2015

Mindanao Conflict Uproots Tens of Thousands

More than 120,000 people have fled their homes in the southern Philippine region of Mindanao, as fighting between government troops and Muslim rebels intensifies. Food and shelter are urgently needed.

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Government sources indicate that more that 123,000 people, or 24,700 families, have been forced to flee their homes due to the fighting as of March 17, the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) said in a statement.
The clashes have affected people from 13 municipalities and as a result, a state of calamity has been declared in Maguindanao, a province located in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) - the country's second biggest and southernmost major island - which has been the scene of a Muslim separatist conflict over the past 40 years.
Where to go?
Families are now living in evacuation centers, schools, madrasahs (Islamic educational centers), covered courts, tents and with host relatives and friends, says the IOM, adding that more than 2,200 pregnant women in evacuation centers are in need of medical support, while classes in 42 public elementary and high schools have been affected.
Heavy military presence, check points, gun bans are common in Mindanao
(Photo: DW/ Bijoyeta Das, Philippinen)
The fighting in the area follows a bloody anti-terror operation on January 25
The intergovernmental organization also indicate that the displaced families are constantly exposed to a number of hazards and risks, as many of them have installed tents under trees, along the roads and nearby military sites with artillery installations.
Moreover, there seem to be other organizational challenges. For instance, Besim Ajeti, IOM Head of the Cotabato Office, explains that it has become increasingly difficult for those in charge to track some of families as they transfer from one evacuation site to another.
Mindanao is home to the biggest and most relevant Muslim minority in the archipelago, the indigenous Moro people. Created in 1989, the ARMM is composed of five predominantly Muslim provinces and is the only region that has its own government.
Supplies may soon run out
The ARMM government has begun distributing food packs and a few plastic sheets (tarpaulins) to those affected. But as Ajeti pointed out, "Food supplies from government agencies may run out in less than 20 days, considering the limited funds available."
Currently, the ARMM is spending approximately PHP 13 million (USD 290,000) per week to support the displaced families, mainly on food assistance, according to IOM. But an IOM assessment reveals the need is much larger: Food, non-food items, emergency shelter support, latrines, tarpaulins, hygiene kits, kitchen utensils, mosquito nets, jerry cans, clothing and safe water (drinking, cooking and general use), are urgently needed.
In addition, evacuation center support, displacement tracking, medical personnel and supplies, psychosocial support as well as mechanisms for addressing protection were recognized as key priorities to continue assisting the affected populations in Maguindanao.
The fighting continues
In the meantime, more than 50 militants have reportedly been killed in attacks launched by the Philippine military last month against the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF), a Muslim rebel group seeking independence.
The fighting in the area follows a bloody anti-terror operation on January 25 aimed at capturing or killing a top Islamist militant. But the raid took a turn for the worse, ending in the killing of 44 police commandos. The police were killed by members of the country's biggest Muslim rebel group, the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), and its breakaway group, the BIFF, when they entered rebel-controlled territory.
It was the government's biggest single-day combat loss in recent memory, prompting calls for retribution which could potentially threaten a peace deal, which entails the establishment of a more powerful autonomous region for minority Muslims in the south of the Catholic-majority nation.
But the botched raid, which took place in Mamasapano, Maguindanao Province, has also triggered a wave of outrage in the Southeast Asian nation. Public opposition to the granting of further concessions to the MILF has stiffened and the administration of President Benigno Aquino has been shaken, with opposition lawmakers calling for the president's impeachment.

(C) 2015 Deutsche Welle

Tuesday, March 10, 2015

Four Soldiers, 40 Rebels Killed in Maguindanao Fighting

MAGUINDANAO, Philippines (Xinhua) - Some 40 Islamist rebels from the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF) and four army soldiers, including a captain, were killed in intense fighting as the Philippine Army continued its all-out-offensive in Maguindanao, a military official said today.

Philippine Army Captain Joan Petinglay, spokesman for the Philippine Army's 6th Division, said the latest casualties from both the Philippine Army and the BIFF began occurring on Saturday as a law enforcement operation against the rebels continued around the borders of Mamasapano, Datu Piang and Shariff Saydona Mustapha towns.

Four Philippine Army soldiers, including Elite Scout Ranger Captain Gromel Auman of the 33rd Infantry Battalion, were killed.   

"Four of the enemy bodies were recovered by our troops in the village of Pusao in Mamasapano. One of them was clad in uniform of Philippine Police Special Action Force (SAF)," Petinglay said.   

"We believed there were also wounded on the side of the rebels because we have used howitzers against them,"she added.

Troops have recovered one M-60 machinegun; two M14 rifles, a grenade; two pairs of binoculars and assorted ammunition.


The BIFF is the armed wing of the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Movement which broke away from the The Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), the largest Muslim rebel force in the southern Philippines, in 2010 because of disagreements over the peace talks with the government.

(C) 2015 by Philippine Star

Saturday, May 17, 2014

Cholera Outbreak in Cotabato Town

By GMA TV

A cholera outbreak in Alamada town, Cotabato province, where at least eight people died after showing symptoms, was confirmed Friday afternoon by the province Gov. Lala Mendoza.

Mendoza said that the outbreak was confirmed after samples from the town were tested.

The World Health Organization defined cholera as an "acute intestinal infection caused by ingestion of food or water contaminated with the bacterium Vibrio cholerae."

Cholera has a short incubation period of a maximum of five days. It produces an enterotoxin that causes a "painless, watery diarrhea that can quickly lead to severe dehydration and death if treatment is not promptly given."

Vomiting also occurs in most patients.

Mendoza said the tests had included chemical, bacteriological for water, and rectal swabs.

According to a separate report from GMA News stringer Garry Fuerzas, health officer Dra. Rosario Bandala said they examined more than 700 patients. Of these, 438 tested positive for Vibrio Cholerae.

Figures from the Alamada Municipal Health Office showed 769 were brought to hospitals or clinics, with 438 testing positive for Vibrio Cholerae.

The governor said the Department of Health, the provincial government and Alamada local government unit were "now taking intervention to control this outbreak."

Alamada Municipal Administrator Robin Cadava said a state of calamity, which was first declared last Wednesday, would remain over Alamada until the patients recover. The state of calamity allows the local government to use its calamity fund.

Meanwhile, Town Councilor Nolie Doromal added they had allocated P986,000 in calamity funds to help the patients.

Relatives of the eight fatalities had been given financial aid, according to the governor.

New patients

A report by GMA Davao's Jan Bautista on "24 Oras" Wednesday evening added several residents had gone to the local community hospital for treatment. They complained of vomiting, loose bowel movement, stomach pains, and dizziness.

Dr. Mary Joy Posada, chief of the Alamada Community Hospital, said in a Phlippine News Agency report that though many patients had been discharged, new patients kept complaining of stomach pain and diarrhea.

“On Monday, the patients came by batches, by 20s, even 50s, on board trucks and military vehicles,” Posada said. She added only about 178 remained in the hospital.

Still, she said the situation was better compared to the previous few days.

Hospital figures showing 600 patients were vomiting, had diarrhea and stomach pain. More than 70 percent of them have recovered and returned home.
 
  Joel Locsin/DVM, GMA News

Monday, June 11, 2012

The Case Of Cotabato City Judge Indar

The Supreme Court of the Philippines disbarred a trial court judge in Cotabato for issuing decisions on numerous annulments of marriage cases without conducting any judicial proceedings in the cases.

In per curiam decision, the High Court found Judge Cadar O. Indar, Al Haj, Presiding Judge of the Regional Trial Court, Branch 14, Cotbato City and Acting Presiding Judge of the Regional Trial Court, branch 15, Shariff Aguak, Maguindanao, guilty of gross misconduct and dishonesty.

The case originated from reports by the Local Civil Registrars of Manila and Quezon City to the Office of the Court Administration that they have an alarming number of decisions, resolutions, and orders on annulment of marriages cases issued by Judge Indar. 

the audit team found that the list of cases submitted by the Local Civil Registrars did not even appear in the records of cases received, pending, and disposed by RTC Branch 15 in Shariff Aguak and the annulment of marriage decisions did not also exist in the records of RTC Branch 14 in Cotabato City.

During investigations, Judge Indar and clerk of court lawyer Umaima Silongan failed to appear before the investigating team. The authorities also failed to locate their whereabouts. 

The Supreme Court ruled:

"Such malfeasance not only makes a mockery o marriage and its lie-changing consequences but likewise grossly violates the basic norms of truth, justice, and due process. Not only, that Judge Indar's gross misconduct greatly undermines the people's faith in the judiciary and betrays public trust and confidence in the courts. Judge Indar's utter lack of moral fitness has no place in the Judiciary. Judge Indar deserves nothing less than dismissal from the service!"

Saturday, August 13, 2011

Maguindanao Clashes Displace Villagers

Peace in Mindanao - unfortunately a never ending story and for many foreigners and outsiders almost not easy to understand analayze... .

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Maguindanao clashes displace villagers