Multibillion Sulu airport mulled
COTABATO CITY — Provincial officials in Sulu and experts in the Bangsamoro government will be drafting a feasibility plan for a multibillion Sulu airport to drive up investments in the province.
Sulu Gov. Hadji Abdusakur M. Tan, Sr. and two representatives of the Bangsamoro government, lawyer Ranibai D. Dilangalen and Engineer Amil J. Abubakar, signed on Thursday, Aug. 29, a Memorandum of Understanding binding their offices to jointly plan the setting up of a large new airport in the island province.
Ms. Dilangalen is a senior official of the Bangsamoro Airport Authority under the region’s Ministry of Transportation and Communications while Mr. Abubakar is deputy director of the Bangsamoro Planning and Development Authority.
Bangsamoro Transportation and Communications Minister Paisalin P. Tago told reporters on Sunday that they aim to establish a new airport, based on international standards, at the border of Talipao and Maimbung towns in the province, long cleared from presence of the Abu Sayyaf via joint peacebuilding programs of local executives, the local communities, the police and the military.
The regional government of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao shall bankroll the project, according to Tago. — John Felix M. Unson