No religious discrimination in MinDA, Alonto assuresCotabato City – The new leaders of the Mindanao Development Authority (MinDA) yesterday allayed fears on discrimination against incumbent non-Muslim personnel. My constituency is not the Bangsamoro alone but the entire Mindanao’s tri-sector – Muslim, Christian, and indigenous people,” new MinDA Chairman Abul Khayr Alonto told the Manila Bulletin. In a phone interview, former Mindanao State University social science Prof. Noorulhayat “Baby” Alonto, wife of the first Muslim MinDA head, echoed her husband’s commitment. The new MinDA chief is a pioneer MNLF official. She recalled that during his stint as first speaker of the now defunct Sangguniang Pampook, the legislature of the erstwhile Central Mindanao autonomous government in late 1970s, Alonto hired mostly non-Muslim personnel.

Source: Manila Bulletin September 16, 2016 14:19 UTC