Displaced workers' financial benefits

Asmad Enok, serving the government for over 20 years (left), receives a check worth more than P600,000 representing his monetized terminal leave following his displacement from the abolition by the Supreme Court of the Shariff Kabunsuan (SK) provincial government at simple rites last Monday at the ARMM complex in Cotabato City. Shown handing the check is Maguindanao OIC-Governor Gani Biruar as former SK acting Governor Ibrahim Ibay Jr. (right), Maguindanao OIC-Vice Governor Nariman Ambolodto (second from left) and ARMM Executive Secretary Naguib Sinarimb (center) look on. Enok is one of 167 personnel belonging to the first batch of check recipients from P40-million fund released earlier by the national government. (Ali G. Macabalang)