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Outstanding Governorship Award 2017

His experience as a youth leader and activist gained him a grasp of A consistent advocate of peace and development via right to self-
the realities faced by minority groups in the country. He hopes to see an determination of the tri-Peoples in Mindanao, he did not only earn
empowered and responsible citizenry, active in their participation in good the respect of prominent political figures in the province of Basilan but
governance and establish a model Muslim community that every Muslim even across Mindanao. His persistence, diligence and involvement
Filipino can be proud of. with international solidarity work gained attention in the national and
A product of public school, Mujiv graduated Class Valedictorian in international communities.
1984 at Buli-Buli Elementary School and Class Salutatorian in 1988 In the year 2000, Mujiv was named as top nominee of the AMIN
at the SumisipNational High School. Having spent his elementary and (Anak Mindanao) Party List that was then seeking a seat at the House of
secondary education in Basilan, he ventured to Manila at the age of Representatives. He graduated from the House of Representatives after
16 to pursue college. He enrolled in Bachelor of Science in Computer having served for three-terms as Congressman (12th – 14th Congress).
Engineering at the AMA Computer University in Manila.Mujiv has always During his stint in Congress, Mujiv took bold steps in (1) standing up
been ahead of his time. At the age of 17, he developed a heightened as the only Muslim legislator in the impeachment against then President
consciousness of the web of interrelations among Mindanaoans - the GloriaMacapagal-Arroyo, (2) calling out for inspection of rice warehouses
Moros, Lumads, and the Christian settlers – and developed a profound to avoid rice hoarding when the price of rice had increased from P41 to P52
understanding of the need to address the salient issues of their economic, per kilo, (3) bringing out the anomalous Road User’s Tax and criticizing the
political, and cultural life. 1989 was the start of his progressive-bent double insertion of the C6 project, (4) calling out for reform in government-
political career. He joined the Manila-based Bangsamoro Student owned and controlled corporations considering their heavy indebtedness
Association who marched and took the cause of the Moro People to the and mismanagement, (5) initiating investigation in the irregularities in the
streets in the quest of making a statement for the plight of the Muslim collection of taxes from quarrying and hauling of Mt. Pinatubo sand in
ethnics of Mindanao, their right to self-determination that then continued Pampanga, (6) calling the government to give more meaning to the mandate
to fall on deaf ears and the need for drafting a peaceful solution to the of the Constitution to assign the highest budgetary priority to education,
centuries-old Mindanao problem. (7) asking the government in a resolution to make basic education the
The sporadic encounters between the military and the secessionist primary beneficiary of its P25.2-billion take from the sale of government
groups based in Basilan took heavy toll on the plight of people who were shares in the Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company, (8) pushing
caught in thecrossfires and the loss of lives was far too heavy to be for a program to ensure that the thousands of undocumented children of
accepted in contemporary terms. This motivated the young Mujiv to found Filipino workers in Malaysia who were sent back to the Philippines during
Kahapan-Basilan, Inc. (now the Kahapan Foundation) in 1995. the mass deportation will get proper education, (9) building the Mindanao
Garden of Peace in the Corregidor Islands, and a lot more.

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