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Outstanding Governorship Award 2017

Believing in education as the most potent tool for change, Mujiv ARMM saved millions of government funds when Mujiv launched
took priority to address the state of literacy and education in the ARMM. a campaign against ghost projects and workers campaign in 2012. The
While doing so, he took personal attention to delve into the plight of successful campaign earned him the moniker “certified ghost-buster”
schoolteachers, the state-of-affairs in the region’s Education Department, from President Benigno Aquino III who made the pronouncement in his
and the persistent irregularities. He found the niche for his massive reform 3rd State of the Nation Address.He then campaigned for the cleansing
agenda in the education sector. of the list of voters in the ARMM, a move strongly supported by civil
Policies were set to remove delays in the release of salaries of teachers society groups. With their help, he secured President Aquino’s support.
and adopted policies to ease them of some financial burdens. The regional Close to 300,000 illegitimate registrants were removed from the region’s
government secured a deal with Land Bank of the Philippines (LBP) to official book of voters as a result of the re-registration conducted by the
provide a buyout scheme for teachers with huge loans from private lenders. Commission on Elections, paving the way for more credible elections. He
An agreement was also signed between the ARMM government, the GSIS was for the second time, cited by President Aquino in the recent SONA for
and the Department of Budget and Management for the implementation his electoral reform initiative.
of a straight deduction scheme to settle GSIS payables of a large number He has pressed on with the brand of leadership and programs he
of teachers in the region. started in the ARMM after emerging victorious in the synchronized
midterm election in May this year. He has called for the streamlining
and optimization of government services being handled by the regional
government through the ARMM HELPS (Health, Education, Livelihood,
Peace and Security, and Synergy) scheme. He has likewise mandated
a proactive approach to emergency situations with the activation of the
ARMM HEART or the Humanitarian Emergency Action Response Team.
Mujiv married Sitti Djalia Turabin, former executive director of the
National Commission on Muslim Filipinos and now Representative of Anak
Mindanao Party List. They have five children, namely: AhmedIbn Djaliv,
Khaleed Eiman Djaliv, Amina Umara, Jamil Oumar and Ameera Mumtaz.
Mujiv’s style of leadership will forever mark as a legacy of new
politics, not just for the Muslim autonomous region, but for the rest of
the country as well.

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