{"id":222526,"date":"2019-07-11T20:17:04","date_gmt":"2019-07-12T00:17:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=222526"},"modified":"2019-07-11T20:17:04","modified_gmt":"2019-07-12T00:17:04","slug":"murad-accepts-pinol-as-barrm-point-man-prrd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/07\/11\/murad-accepts-pinol-as-barrm-point-man-prrd\/","title":{"rendered":"Murad accepts Pi\u00f1ol as BARRM \u2018point man\u2019: PRRD"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_221692\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-221692\" style=\"width: 2400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Manny-Pin\u0303ol.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-221692\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Manny-Pin\u0303ol.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2400\" height=\"1600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Manny-Pin\u0303ol.jpg 2400w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Manny-Pin\u0303ol-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2400px) 100vw, 2400px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-221692\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Duterte earlier said he wanted to reassign Pi\u00f1ol to the Mindanao Development Authority (MinDa) but has yet to clarify what agency he will be serving for (File Photo: TOTO LOZANO\/Presidential Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) interim Chief Minister Al-Hajj Murad Ebrahim has accepted the proposal to designate Agriculture Secretary Emmanuel Pi\u00f1ol as the \u201cpoint man\u201d to develop Mindanao.<\/p>\n<p>President Rodrigo Duterte bared this a day after meeting Murad in Malaca\u00f1ang on Wednesday (July 10).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYeah,\u201d Duterte told reporters in a chance interview when asked if Murad accepted Duterte\u2019s proposal to make Pi\u00f1ol the BARMM point person.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, we are trying to fine-tune. And that is why the truth of the matter is I really transferred Pi\u00f1ol to assist them,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Duterte further spoke about Pi\u00f1ol\u2019s qualifications including being born and raised there, being a farmer, and North Cotabato governor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m sure he can help the BARMM and the government to fast-track everything,\u201d Duterte said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am most interested\u00a0<em>na makita na ng<\/em>\u00a0(to see the) Moro people\u00a0<em>\u2018yung hinihingi nila<\/em>\u00a0(get what they are asking for). To move faster so that you will re &#8212; you will realize the dream state that you have been asking for and fighting for,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Duterte earlier said he wanted to reassign Pi\u00f1ol to the Mindanao Development Authority (MinDa) but has yet to clarify what agency he will be serving for.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Murad bared that the Moro people disliked Pi\u00f1ol because of his role in junking the memorandum of agreement on ancestral domain (MOA-AD) which was meant to expand the autonomous Muslim region in Mindanao in 2008.<\/p>\n<p>He, however, said he will still respect the President\u2019s choice.<\/p>\n<p>Duterte said he will be reassigning Pi\u00f1ol to another agency after the latter tendered his courtesy resignation on June 27.<\/p>\n<p>Pi\u00f1ol resigned \u201cwith the best interest\u201d of his department but at the same time, expressed willingness to be reassigned to whichever agency he will be effective, including MinDa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0\u2013 Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) interim Chief Minister Al-Hajj Murad Ebrahim has accepted the proposal to designate &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":221692,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-azer-parrocha","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222526"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":222527,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222526\/revisions\/222527"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}