Ampatuan to focus on eight priority areas in his State of region Address Monday
Governor Zaldy Ampatuan of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao will focus on ``at least eight priority areas'' in his State of the Region Address on Monday Ampatuan, the fifth governor in the 18-year old ARMM, began his second three-year term on September 30.
Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani has said the development work in backward areas needs to be given priority to bring these at par with other areas of the country.The under developed regions, he added, not only require educational institutions and basic facilities, but the quality of basic needs has to be improved to produce useful citizens for the society.