Proposed Creation of New Municipality Out of Midsayap
A proposal of creating a new municipality to be carved out of Midsayap has been officially filed to the House of Representatives by the Hon. Mujiv S. Hataman of the Party-list ANAK MINDANAO (AMIN). It bears the name of House Bill No. 5752 otherwise known as "AN ACT CREATING THE MUNICIPALITY OF SULTAN TAMBILAWAN BAYAO IN THE PROVINCE OF NORTH COTABATO". Records showed it was filed last September 5, 2006.
The said proposal is, according to the bill, manifested by the significant desire of barangay officials in those area through Resolutions of their respective Sangguniang Barangays. The name of the proposed municipality will be "Sultan Tambilawan Bayao", as tribute to the legacy of the Sultan of Rajah Buayan sa Kudarangan covering the so-called empire province of Cotabato where he reigned as a SULTAN.
The proposed Municipality will be composed of seventeen (17) Muslim Barangays from the Municipality of Midsayap, namely; DAMATULAN, KADINGILAN, KADIGASAN, KAPINPILAN, KUDARANGAN, CENTRAL LABAS, UPPER LABAS, LOMOPOG, MACASENDEG, MALINGAO, MUDSENG, NABALAWAG, OLANDANG, RANGABAN, SAMBULAWAN, TUGAL AND TUMBRAS. The seventeen (17) barangays of 5,586 household, and a population of 28,164 has an annual income of P10,611,214.53 and P11,180,639.23 in 2004 and 2005.
The integrated income, population, and land area of the said barangays constituting the Municipality of Sultan Tambilawan Bayao conform to the minimum requirements set under the Local Government Code for the creation of a Municipality. Further, the creation of said Municipality does not reduce the income, population, and land area of the Municipality of Midsayap to less than the prescribed minimum requirements provided by law.
The seat of government of the new Municipality of Sultan Tambilawan Bayao shall be in barangay Nabalawag.
The creation of said Municipality will afford additional government machinery which could certainly facilitate the economic development of the seventeen (17) barangays and will uplift the lives of the people in North Cotabato. Its creation will allow the subject barangays to enjoy the blessings of self-governance, empowerment and better delivery of basic services to their people."
However, the said proposal has never been progressing since majority of the people are not willing to the idea of dividing Midsayap into two. As a requirement a plebiscite shall be called once this could be approved in Congress. As an expected result, many Midsayapenos believed this will come into a failure as people here, despite that different tribal origins consider themselves as one, strong and united inhabitant of the great boom town of North Cotabato.
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