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MOTC-BARMM Minister Dickson Hermoso conduct his first ocular visit in Bongao port to settled issues and fix any problems for the better BARMM governance. During his visit he closely coordinated to Lt. General Cirilito Sobejana,
Commander of AFP’s Western Mindanao Command (WESMINCOM), Joint Task Force
Tawi-Tawi, 2nd Marine Brigade, Phil. Navy’s Naval Station Juan Magluyan (NAJM),
Phil.Coast Guard and Phil. National Police in Tawi-Tawi are also in full
support. ( Photo by Mark Navales.}
Minister of Transportation and
Communications (MOTC)-BARMM, Dickson P. Hermoso conveyed a strong message to
put an end the issues of leadership of this office.
Minister Hermoso said, "The confusion of leadership in this office
has to stop. no one can assumes office without any proper legal authority that
comes from the BARMM Interim Chief Minister Alhaj Murad Ibrahim, he said.
Before the turn-over of authority from the former ARMM to BARMM, this
has been the prevailing concern in the Southwestern Island province of the
Bangsamoro government.
Alonto A. Sahiron, MPA, Regional Officer-in-Charge of MARINA-BARMM said
"this ocular visit of Minister Hermoso settled once and for all the
issues on bogus personnel pretending to be employees who are actually connected with MARINA-BARMM."
"We were already directed by the Interim Chief Minister Alhaj
Murad Ebrahim to look in to this bogus operation of MARINA in
Bongao, Tawi-Tawi until the new minister appointed he vigorously sustained efforts to solve every problems and issues in order to have a good and better governance.
Sahiron said that he do his best to serve his people religiously to avoid issues and problems.
He added that all types of sea vessel regardless of tonnage are obliged
to register and to be recognized by MARINA-BARMM before they conducts their business operation like commercial sea
vessels, may it be small wooden banca, medium size or large passenger and cargo
container ships, should get their permit to operate.
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The MARINA and Regional Ports Management Authority (RPMA) they should be working
hand and hand as brothers to monitor each sea vessel plying and docking along
the seas and rivers within the BARMM area of responsibility.
During the turn over Gary Abbas, Regional Officer-in-Charge of RPMA said,
"So far our ports suffers congestion problems and we were look in a proper solution about this, The fact
that there are so many sea vessels now docking at our ports, we can hardly
accommodate them.", he said.
"Bongao and Jolo ports are under renovations to be able to handle
bigger ships and we can cater some international hub like international cargos and passenger ships from
neighboring Asian countries like Indonesia, Malaysia, Sabah and Brunei."
Abbas conveyed.
“The revival of the barter trade among our Asian neighbors such as
Malaysia and Indonesia is underway as ordered by President Rodrigo Duterte’s
decision about the cross-border trading under the President Duterte's Executive Order No. 64 in October 2018 that created
the Mindanao Barter Council (MBC), has identified the ports of Siasi and Jolo
in Sulu and Bongao in Tawi-Tawi as the barter ports, he added.
The said ocular visit of Minister Hermoso was in close coordination
with Lt. General Cirilito Sobejana, Commander of AFP’s Western Mindanao Command
(WESMINCOM). The Joint Task Force Tawi-Tawi, 2nd Marine Brigade, Phil. Navy’s
Naval Station Juan Magluyan (NAJM), Phil.Coast Guard and Phil. National Police
in Tawi-Tawi are also in full supports of some other government line agencies like Bureau of Customs and Bureau of
Immigration as well as the local chief executives were also there to support
the proper flow of operation in the Bangsamoro island provinces. {By Mark Navales/with reports by Andy Orobia)
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