Abstract
Talipao is one of the 19 municipalities that make up the province of Sulu. It was used to be called Lungan Gi’tung as it is located at the center of the province. Sulu’s municipalities share common problems such as lack of peace and order condition, poverty, lack of industries, high unemployment rate, high illiteracy rate and poor governance. Some municipalities are not functional in terms of delivering the basic services to the people. Political observers are divided in pointing the roots and symptoms of the problems while the people in general cannot differentiate roots from the symptoms of the problems. Depending on the level of analysis and perspective, many professionals especially professors in the state colleges and universities share the belief that poor governance is the root of the problems in Sulu. If poor governance is taken as the root of the problem, therefore, poverty, unemployment, illiteracy, ignorance, kidnap for ransom, lack of peace and order condition, lack of water supply, and lack of electricity are only symptoms of the problems.