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Outstanding Governorship Award 2013

A consistent advocate of peace and development via right
to self-determination of the tri-Peoples in Mindanao, he did
not only earn the respect of prominent political figures in the
province of Basilan but even across Mindanao. His persistence,
diligence and involvement with international solidarity work
gained attention in the national and international communities.
In the year 2000, Mujiv was named as top nominee of
the AMIN (Anak Mindanao) Party List that was then seeking
a seat at the House of Representatives. He graduated from the
House of Representatives after having served for three-terms
as Congressman (12th – 14th Congress).
Mujiv has always been ahead of his time. At the age of During his stint in Congress, Mujiv took bold steps in (1)
17, he developed a heightened consciousness of the web of standing up as the only Muslim legislator in the impeachment
interrelations among Mindanaoans - the Moros, Lumads, and against then President GloriaMacapagal-Arroyo, (2) calling
the Christian settlers – and developed a profound understanding out for inspection of rice warehouses to avoid rice hoarding
of the need to address the salient issues of their economic, when the price of rice had increased from P41 to P52 per kilo,
political, and cultural life. 1989 was the start of his progressive- (3) bringing out the anomalous Road User’s Tax and criticizing
bent political career. He joined the Manila-based Bangsamoro the double insertion of the C6 project, (4) calling out for reform
Student Association who marched and took the cause of the in government-owned and controlled corporations considering
Moro People to the streets in the quest of making a statement their heavy indebtedness and mismanagement, (5) initiating
for the plight of the Muslim ethnics of Mindanao, their right to investigation in the irregularities in the collection of taxes from
self-determination that then continued to fall on deaf ears and quarrying and hauling of Mt. Pinatubo sand in Pampanga, (6)
the need for drafting a peaceful solution to the centuries-old calling the government to give more meaning to the mandate
Mindanao problem. of the Constitution to assign the highest budgetary priority to
The sporadic encounters between the military and the education, (7) asking the government in a resolution to make basic
secessionist groups based in Basilan took heavy toll on the education the primary beneficiary of its P25.2-billion take from
plight of people who were caught in thecrossfires and the loss the sale of government shares in the Philippine Long Distance
of lives was far too heavy to be accepted in contemporary terms. Telephone Company, (8) pushing for a program to ensure that
This motivated the young Mujiv to found Kahapan-Basilan, Inc. the thousands of undocumented children of Filipino workers in
(now the Kahapan Foundation) in 1995. Malaysia who were sent back to the Philippines during the mass
deportation will get proper education, (9) building the Mindanao
Garden of Peace in the Corregidor Islands, and a lot more.
Mujiv sponsored and authored fourteen (14) House Bills,
the most significant of which is House Bill No. 03012 - AN ACT
PROHIBITING DISCRIMINATION AGAINST PERSONS ON
ACCOUNT OF ETHNIC ORIGIN AND/OR RELIGIOUS BELIEF,
which was approved on 3rd reading by both Houses of Congress.
He also co-authored sixty nine (69) House Bills to include among
others the CARPER Law and Generics Medicine Act.

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