The Department of Local Government and Department of National Defense are hereby directed to convene a Joint DLG-DND Special Investigating Committee to investigate the series of violent incidents in Jolo, Sulu allegedly involving the followers of Vice-Governor Kimarpasa Tulawie and Mayor Hadji Suod Tan, for the purpose of determining all the facts and circumstances regarding the said incidents and the persons responsible therefor, and recommending the appropriate corrective and preventive measures.

The Joint DLG-DND Special Investigating Committee shall be composed of an Undersecretary of Local Government as Chairman, Undersecretary of National Defense as Co-Chairman, and two (2) representatives each from the two departments, all to be designated by their respective Secretaries.

For the purpose of the investigation, the Joint DLG-DND Special Investigating Committee and its investigators are hereby granted all the powers of an investigating body under the Administrative Code of 1987, including the power to summon witnesses, administer oaths, take testimony or evidence relevant to the investigation and to obtain compulsory processes to produce documents, books, records and such other matters in the performance of their functions.

All the departments, bureaus, offices, agencies or instrumentalities including government owned or controlled corporations are hereby directed to extend such assistance and cooperation as the Joint DLG-DND Special Investigating Committee may need in the discharge of its functions.

DONE in the City of Manila, this 3rd day of July, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and ninety.


By the President:
(Sgd.) CATALINO MACARAIG, JR.
Executive Secretary