Chief Minister Ahod Ebrahim of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao personally turned over on Tuesday afternoon to the speaker of the 80-member BARMM parliament, Pangalian Balindong, the documents pertaining to the proposed 2024 budget for the operation of the BARMM government.
A popular member of the regional parliament, Kadil Sinolinding, Jr., said in a statement released on Wednesday that the Bangsamoro chief minister deserves a “tap on the shoulder” for having allocated P30.2 billion for the regional government’s 2024 education thrust. BARMM’s education ministry need P745 million next year for the construction of more school buildings, libraries and other learning facilities in the region’s core territory that covers the provinces of Maguindanao del Sur, Maguindanao del Norte, Lanao del Sur, Basilan, Sulu and Tawi-Tawi and the cities of Cotabato, Lamitan and Marawi.
The region’s finance minister, Ubaida Pacasem, said BARMM's 2024 proposed P98.46 billion budget shall be drawn from its P70.5 billion Annual Block Grant from the national government, P5.08 billion from shares in taxes generated from within the area of autonomy, P5 billion from the Special Development Fund, P471 million from projected 2024 regional tax collections and P17.3 billion from savings intact in the regional coffer.