MENRE-BARMM Minister Abdulrauf Macacua. (Photo courtesy of MENRE - BARMM)
COTABATO CITY -- The environment minister of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) on Monday lauded the league of mayors in Maguindanao for campaigning against the posting of campaign materials along major thoroughfares of the province.
Minister Abdulrauf Macacua of the Ministry of Environment, Natural Resources and Energy (MENRE-BARMM) personally thanked Mayor Freddie Mangudadatu of Mangudadatu town for his active campaign against displaying and nailing campaign materials on trees.
Mangudadatu, president of the league of mayors in the province and running for governor of Maguindanao, recently met with Macacua and agreed to work together in pushing forward the BARMM’s environmental-protection initiative.
Over the weekend, Macacua led MENRE-BARMM personnel, along with workers of the Commission on Elections, in removing posters and campaign materials placed on trees -- others even nailed on the trunk of trees -- on the stretch of the highway from Cotabato City to Datu Abdullah Sangki in Maguindanao.
Macacua said there are other areas where political aspirants can display their posters other than trees.
“Spare our trees, instead, help plant more of them,” Macacua told local candidates and their supporters. (PNA)
