Govt vows to provide Bangsamoro budgethome/News/Headlines/Govt vows to provide Bangsamoro budgetPRESIDENT Rodrigo Duterte has pledged to provide a budget for the Bangsamoro autonomous region to support its development. He assured members of the Bangsamoro transition government that the region’s resources will belong to the Bangsamoro people. It’s all yours,” Duterte told the 80-member Bangsamoro Transition Authority (BTA) that will govern the newly formed Bangsamoro region in Mindanao. Duterte said the government must collect ample revenues that would be allocated to the Bangsamoro region. The Secretary-General of the United Nations (UN) congratulated the government, MILF and the Bangsamoro Transition Commission as ell as local communities on the establishment of the Bangsamoro Transition Authority.

Source: Manila Times February 23, 2019 17:26 UTC