COURTESY RESIGNATION OF ARMM EXECUTIVES ORDERED

Here’s another interesting article about the latest happening inside Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM). Got this article from the official website of ARMM, www.armm.gov.ph written by BPI-ARMM dated last October 1, 2011. In verbatim, here it goes.

COTABATO CITY – Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao Acting Governor Ansaruddin A. Adiong has ordered his cabinet secretaries and heads of bureaus to tender courtesy resignation in his bid to reconstitute the regional bureaucracy with people of his choice to assist him in running the ARMM governance under a new mandate.

Adiong issued Office Order No. 053 on Thursday, the eve of the end of his elective term, asking all his coterminous executives to submit their resignation letters before Friday noontime and clear themselves of all monetary and property accountabilities.

As of press time shortly the close of office hours today (Friday), six concerned officials have sent in their courtesy resignation letters.

The six are ARMM Executive Secretary Naguib G. Sinarimbo, Bureau of Public Information (BPI) Executive Director Ali G. Macabalang, Bureau of Cultural Heritage Director Aymee Biruar, Office of Development Assistance David Ali, DOST Regional Secretary Fradzkhan Ilaji, DAR Assistant Secretary Padilla Pundaodaya, and Regional Board of Investment chairman Ishak Masura.

It was learned that other regional cabinet members and heads of bureaus were on official trips outside Cotabato City since Thursday and were expected to heed the order Monday.

Adiong’s directive came shortly before Malacañang announced that incumbent elective ARMM officials would stay in their posts even as their terms ended Friday in pursuance to the Supreme Court’s temporary restraining order halting the implementation of R.A. 10153, which deferred the region’s 2011 polls to 2013.

The law, which also authorized the President to appoint officers-in-charge (OICs) to serve the ARMM governance for 21 months, is facing separate petitions by groups challenging before the Supreme Court its constitutionality.

The SC issued on TRO on September 13 in what was perceived to be a prudential decision to prevent a possible chaos in the event the High Tribunal reverses the law after the appointment and takeover of the OICs.