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Rehabilitated Grand Mosque to be unveiled

October 18, 2021 TOPNEWSNOW Leave a comment

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MANILA – The Department of Human Settlements and Urban Development (DHSUD) will launch on Sunday the newly constructed Grand Mosque in Marawi, four years after the government started its rehabilitation of the city razed to the ground when government forces took out the Maute-led terrorist… Read More

A black smoke billows from downtown of Marawi City June 27, 2017 after a military airstrike. A government official trashed the demands of the leader of Islamic State (IS)-inspired terrorists holed up in Marawi City to free their Roman Catholic priest hostage in exchange for the freedom of his parents and relatives.

Gov’t works double-time to complete Marawi rehab

MANILA – President Rodrigo Duterte on Saturday promised that his administration will double its efforts to hasten to complete the rehabilitation projects in Marawi City.Duterte made the vow as he led the commemorative rites of the fourth anniversary of the liberation of Marawi City from… Read More

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GRAND MOSQUE

October 18, 2021 TOPNEWSNOW Leave a comment

DUTERTE unveils newly rehabilitated Grand Mosque in Marawi

MARAWI CITY, Lanao del Sur — President Rodrigo Roa Duterte unveiled Saturday (Oct. 16) the newly-repaired Grand Mosque in the city’s most affected area.

President Rodrigo Roa Duterte is assisted by (from left) Senator Christopher Lawrence “Bong” Go, Task Force Bangon Marawi chairperson and Human Settlements and Urban Development Secretary Eduardo Del Rosario, National Commission on Muslim Filipinos Secretary Saidamen Pangarungan, Lanao del Sur Governor Mamintal Adiong Jr., and Marawi City Mayor Majul Gandamra as he leads the unveiling of the marker of the Jameo Mindanao Al-Islamie (Grand Mosque) in Marawi City on October 16, 2021. TOTO LOZANO/ PRESIDENTIAL PHOTO

By Apipa Bagumbaran / Philippine Information Agency

Damaged during the 2017 siege, the iconic Grand Mosque is the fifth house of Islamic worship rehabilitated by the national government through the funding support of the private sector.

In his message, Duterte said the Grand Mosque holds historical and cultural significance in the lives of Maranaws. Its complete rehabilitation will bring new hope to Muslim brothers and sisters.

The interior of the newly-rehabilitated mosque. Photo: PCOO

Task Force Bangon Marawi (TFBM) has been prioritizing the repair and reconstruction of mosques damaged or destroyed during the siege as these places of Islamic worship play a critical role in the social healing of Marawi residents.

Four other mosques that were completely repaired by TFBM have already been inaugurated and turned over to their respective administrators. These are Masjid Disomangcop in Bgy. Daguduban, Masjid Darussalam in Bgy. Raya Madaya, Marinaut Mosque in Bgy. West Marinaut, and White Mosque in Bgy. Lumbaca Madaya.

The exterior of the newly-rehabilitated mosque. Photo: PCOO

Meanwhile, the President reassured the people of Marawi that the government is doing its best to expedite the completion of rehabilitation projects at the soonest possible time.

“We in government are strongly committed to bring back the city’s glory and we will continue to foster cooperation among concerned stakeholders so that Marawi will be able to build back better and stronger,” he said. (APB/PIA Lanao del Sur)

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DEL ROSARIO NOT RESIGNING FROM TASK FORCE BANGON MARAWI

February 7, 2020 TOPNEWSNOW Leave a comment

Unfazed by groups’ resignation call

DEL ROSARIO DURIANBURGDAVAO — Secretary Eduardo del Rosario and The Durian Post publisher ROGER M. BALANZA, at the First Social Housing Convergence that gathered all government agencies and other stakeholders concerned with the implementation of the government’s socialized housing programs.
The day-long Convergence, held in September 2019 at the Land Bank of the Philippines Plaza in Ermita in Manila and organized by the Social Housing Finance Corporation (SHFC), was the culminating event of the celebration of the 31st anniversary of the Community Mortgage Program (CMP), the flagship program of the SHFC. The Convergence was led by Secretary Eduardo del Rosario of the Housing and Urban Development Coordinating Council (HUDCC) and SHFC President Arnolfo Ricardo Cabling.

Housing czar Eduardo del Rosario on Wednesday said he is unfazed by calls for his resignation and that he will give up the Task Force Bangon Marawi (TFBM) helm only if President Rodrigo Duterte orders him to vacate the position.

Reacting to allegations of some Maranao professionals for his alleged failure to reconstruct the war-torn city on time, del Rosario told the Philippine News Agency that he is not bothered by the call for his resignation as the TFBM chairman, noting the task force has accomplished so much.

“I know pretty well what are the accomplishments of the Task Force Bangon Marawi and its member agencies. I’m seeing the progress of what we are doing, (so) I am confident with that,” he said, adding that the TFBM has the full trust and confidence of President Duterte to continue the rehabilitation of Marawi City.

“For me, as a former member of the Armed Force of the Philippines (AFP), there is no such thing as resignation. Our stay in any undertaking, whether it will be civilian or military government, is based on the trust and confidence of the president, or the appointing authority,” he added.

The call for his resignation, he said, is just part of political peddlers’ propaganda and to destroy the government in general, noting that he will “just work on his mandate to rehabilitate Marawi City”.

On March 20, 2019, a Maranao civil society group leader Drieza Abaton Lininding called for del Rosario to resign during the TFBM public consultation and forum in Marawi City.

He dared the TFBM head, a retired military general, to vacate his position once he fails in his commitment to facilitate the return of evacuees to Marawi City’s Most Affected Area (MMA) – severely affected by the five-month 2017 Marawi siege — by July of 2019.

Del Rosario challenged Lininding to resign as CSO leader if the TFBM could start sending evacuees back home to MAA by July.

He said the debris management at the MAA is the most important project undertaken by the task force, citing the clearing of unexploded ordnances and other explosives and the demolition of the damaged infrastructures, houses, and buildings.

The transfer of the remaining displaced families who stayed at the evacuation centers to transitory houses continued in July 2019.

In early January 2020, the call was revived when the Dr. Dimapuno Alonto-Datu Ramos Jr., spokesman of the National Commission on Muslim Filipinos (NCMF), expressed his disappointment on del Rosario, asking him anew to step down as TFBM head.

News reports said Integrated Bar of the Philippines (IBP)-Lanao Sur chapter, the provincial government, and the 80-member parliament of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) requested for an independent probe on the management of huge funds allocated by the national government for the Marawi rehabilitation projects.

Del Rosario said all TFBM funds are distributed to each task force member agencies which are implementing projects and programs accordingly and answering the plight of the thousands of evacuees affected by the siege.

“TFBM member agencies involved in the rehabilitation are also conducting bidding process for their projects, to ensure the budgets are being used properly,” he said. “If President Duterte will say ‘Del Rosario, you have to leave!’, then I’ll go. Because I serve at the pleasure of the president and I don’t serve at the pleasure of those with ill motive and best at interest in the workings of government in Marawi City.”

Meanwhile, del Rosario said the vertical construction will now start as the clearing operations and debris management have been completed.

“We already had the groundbreaking in December 2019. This first quarter of 2020, the mobilization and the actual construction of vertical projects will commence,” he said.

Private individuals, he said, can now renovate and reconstruct their houses inside the MAA provided that they have the complete documents of owning the land property and a building permit from the local government (LGU) of Marawi.

On track

Del Rosario, who is also Secretary of the newly created Department of Human Settlements and Urban Development, assured the public that the task force is still on track in pursuing its target to complete the rehabilitation of the war-torn city’s MAA by December 2021.

“There are some challenges but everything is surmountable. That’s why we are moving forward and I can say that we are on the right track based on our timeline. (So) we will be completing the rehabilitation by December of 2021,” he said.

The TFBM was created under the administrative order No. 3 issued by President Duterte on June 28, 2017, to ensure collaboration and convergence among national agencies and the local government units. TFBM facilitates the rehabilitation, recovery and reconstruction efforts in Marawi.

It also helps displaced families recover from the tragedy brought by the Marawi siege in May 2017. (PNA)

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Massive construction of houses for displaced Marawi siege victims in full blast soon

October 29, 2019 TOPNEWSNOW Leave a comment

Housing project sparks new hope for Marawi residents

The construction site of the housing units for 100 families from Barangay West Dulay, who were displaced by the Marawi siege, broke ground on Thursday, October 17, during the commemoration of the second anniversary of the capital’s liberation from Islamic State-inspired terrorists.

The ceremony in Marawi City was part of the reporting event for the media organized by Task Force Bangon Marawi (TFBM), the Presidential Communications Operations Office, and the Philippine Information Agency to show the progress of the government’s rehabilitation and recovery efforts for those affected by the Battle of Marawi.

HOUSING FOR MARAWI. Task Force Bangon Marawi chairperson and Housing and Urban Development Coordinating Council Secretary Eduardo del Rosario (4th from left) and Marawi City Mayor Majul Gandamra (5th from left) present the blueprint of the housing project that will benefit 1,500 families displaced by the Marawi siege. The construction site of the housing units for 100 families from Barangay West Dulay broke ground on Thursday (Oct. 17, 2019) during the commemoration of the second anniversary of the capital’s liberation from Islamic State-inspired terrorists. (Photo from PCOO)

Present during the event were TFBM chairperson and Housing and Urban Development Coordinating Council (HUDCC) Secretary Eduardo del Rosario; Marawi Mayor Majul Gandamra; Sultan Nasser Sampaco; Social Housing Finance Corp. (SHFC) president, lawyer Arnolfo Cabling; members of the SHFC Board of Directors Lyndon Catulong Sr. and Ronald Barcena; UN-Habitat project manager Warren Ubongen; and contractor Fiat-a Macarambon.

In his speech, del Rosario gave a message of hope to thousands of the city’s internally displaced persons (IDPs).

“We are now ready to start with the construction of permanent housing units for the IDPs,” he told the beneficiaries, who have been living along the three-meter easement of the Agus River and Lake Lanao.

Aside from the 109 housing units that will be built in the coming months, del Rosario also noted that the TFBM secured 500 units of permanent shelters last week with the help of UN-Habitat and the National Housing Authority (NHA) and the Social Housing Finance Corporation (SHFC) headed by president lawyer Arnolfo Ricardo Cabling.

TF Bangon Marawi chief hails ‘faster’ clearing ops

MARAWI SHELTER. Officials of Task Force Bangon Marawi and the city government lead the groundbreaking of a relocation site for permanent shelters in Barangay West Dulay, Marawi City on Thursday’s (Oct. 17, 2019). The site is just one of the several relocation areas for displaced residents. (PNA photo by Nef Luczon)

He said that with the 500 units already secured and the 109 units that broke ground, they already have 609 units, but still need to fast-track the rest of the 1,500 units promised by UN-Habitat, otherwise the remaining fund would be given back by March 31 next year.

Del Rosario said that by the end of October, they would declare the most affected area (MAA) in Marawi – the Ground Zero — cleared of bombs and hazards, having detected and recovered 625 explosives so far.

The NHA, he added, would declare the completion of damaged structures in the MAA by November 30.

“By the first quarter of next year, most of the projects that will be constructed in the MAA will start. That is why we are certain of our timetable. We have been saying that we are on track and we will complete the rehabilitation of Marawi by December 2021,” del Rosario said.

The processing of building permit applications for structures by residents in the MAA, began last July 30, allowing them to demolish the damaged houses from sectors 1 to 7 of the MAA and start architectural and engineering plans.

The Subcommittee on Housing, headed by the HUDCC and NHA, is already monitoring the temporary shelter units at the Biyaya ng Pagbabago Sagonsongan Transitory Site, which will accommodate 1,052 displaced households for Areas 1 to 6.

An additional 300 temporary shelter units in Area 8 are also under construction. At the Boganga Lakeview Shelter Site alone, 814 out of the 1,500 target housing units have been completed and 687 of these are already occupied by the displaced families.

In Barangay Rorogagus, a total of 1,000 housing units are being constructed in two sites and another 1,000 units will also be constructed in Barangay Dulay.

For the permanent housing, a total of 2,000 units will be constructed in Pamayandeg sa Ranaw Residences in barangays Kilala and Gadongan.

Apart from these housing units, the NHA will also construct two five-story low-rise buildings and one three-story multi-purpose building with a covered basketball court in Barangay Papandayan in Marawi.

“By December of 2021, I think 95 percent of the structures have been built. And Marawi City will be a prosperous city again, as promised by our President (Rodrigo Duterte),” del Rosario said.

He also floated the swift passage of an executive order (EO) that seeks to make the NHA the lead agency in undertaking key rehabilitation projects in the war-torn capital of Lanao del Sur, saying that the EO would authorize the NHA to undertake the unified road networks, electrical and water utilities, and telecommunication projects.

Del Rosario said that one agency should integrate the budget “because if all the agencies involved will do the road networks and the procurement processes for the water, electricity, and telecommunications have not (been) finalized yet, then everything will diverge,” he said.

Del Rosario said they were expecting the EO to be released this month as it has been with the Executive Secretary Salvador Medialdea since last month.

It can be recalled that two years ago, the President announced the liberation of Marawi City after a gruelling five-month conflict to fend off Islamic State-inspired terrorists.

Since then, the task force’s 56 member agencies have continuously worked together to bring the lives of the residents back to normal through efforts in several areas.

For livelihood, micro, small and medium entrepreneurs of Marawi City have earned a total of PHP722,140 during the Bangon Marawi Trade Fair. On medical and health services, the Department of Health, in partnership with the World Health Organization – Philippines and the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund, targeted 134,441 children who were less than five years old across 39 municipalities in Lanao del Sur for its campaign against polio.

On relief services, the Department of Social Welfare and Development distributed hygiene kits, family kits, food packs, and malongs to displaced families in transitory shelters. Taiwan, through the World Vision Philippines, also donated a total of 66,000 sacks of rice at 30 kg. per sack for the displaced families.

For skills training, the Department of Information and Communications Technology conducted a workshop for 100 IDP scholars on online freelancing jobs and the IT-BPM industry for the countryside, as well as a workshop for 25 IDP scholars on social media marketing and advertising technical training.

The residents and rebel returnees in Butig, Lanao del Sur have availed of the different government services and programs during the Kumpas Barangay: Information-Serbisyo Caravan from various government line agencies.

The Department of Public Works and Highways’ contractors, in charge of the reconstruction and rehabilitation of Banggolo, Mapandi, and Pumping bridges, have also started reconstructing 18.97 km. of the Transcentral Roads, with funding from the Official Development Assistance of the government of Japan for the war-torn city. (PCOO)

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SHFC AND UN-HABITAT – PLAYING KEY ROLES IN REBUILDING MARAWI CITY