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Tuesday, October 07, 2003
GMA forms MPDF to replace SPDA
By Ben O. Tesiorna
PRESIDENT Arroyo issued Executive Order No. 229 creating the Mindanao Peace Development Fund (MPDF) that is aimed to replace the controversy-stricken Southern Philippines Development Authority (SPDA).
Lawyer Dominador "Boy" Zuņo, head of the SPDA Deactivation Task Force, clarified though that EO 229 could not outrightly abolish the SPDA that was created by virtue of a legislative enactment.
"Only a congressional act could abolish the SPDA," he said.
Zuņo admitted that the creation of the MPDF could be a step in the abolition of SPDA.
He said he already turned over all the documents, assets and liabilities of the SPDA amounting to P1.5 billion in cash and properties to the executive director of the MPDF last week.
It was learned Arroyo appointed Nazrullah B. Manzur as the MPDF chief. Manzur, Zuņo said, concurrently handles the Armm Social Fund.
Zuņo said unlike the SPDA, the MPDF has a wider scope. He said the SPDA was only concerned on Muslim areas while the MPDF will cover threatened areas all over Mindanao, be it a Muslim community, lumad (native) or NPA-affected areas.
(October 7, 2003 issue)
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