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.

Palace: Holdover officials in ARMM

Here is a full context of article from PHILIPPINE DAILY INQUIRER by NORMAN BORDADORA issued date September 30, 2011. Ive read this newspaper just this morning and with the interest of sharing this and post to my own blogsite.Enjoy reading.

Palace: Holdover officials in ARMM

By Norman Bordadora
Philippine Daily Inquirer

Incumbent officials of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) will stay in their posts even as their terms end today, according to Malacañang.

No elections were held in August following the passage of a law synchronizing the ARMM elections with the national elections in 2013.

However, the Supreme Court issued a temporary restraining order on the appointment of officers-in-charge in the region, one of the provisions of the law that the Aquino administration intended to use supposedly to initiate reforms in the region.

“Since we cannot appoint new OICs, we are bound to respect the holdovers in the meantime. There will be holdovers in the meantime until the Supreme Court decides on the constitutionality of the ARMM postponement law,” Lacierda said in an afternoon briefing in Malacañang.

Lacierda, in an earlier news briefing, said having holdover elected officials had been found unconstitutional by the Supreme Court. He, however, said there should be no vacuum in governance in the region.

“The most logical thing, is for the incumbent officials to stay put,” he said.

While having holdover officials is unconstitutional, “we do not want … a vacuum.”

“It’s something that is important for governance to continue. There should be somebody on hand to continue public service,” Lacierda said.

He said the next move on the government’s reform agenda in the ARMM would hinge on the Supreme Court’s decision on whether the synchronization of elections law is constitutional.

“They may uphold the process (of appointing the OICs) … or they will say it us unconstitutional, in which case, either two options may be decided by the Supreme Court, either by (having) holdover (officials) or have elections,” Lacierda said.

TEMPORARY RESTRAINING ORDER - HOLDS ARMM OFFICER IN CHARGE APPOINTMENT

Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao – Officer In Charge for Governor, Vice-Governor and Members of a Regional Legislative Assembly is in silence upto now. After the two days series of public forum a Temporary Restraining Oder was issue by the Supreme Court.

Here’s a copy of the said TRO from Supreme Court of the Philippines.

Click TRO in photo form to zoom in.