Isabela City, Basilan --- This apparently was what a councilor meant when she contradicted an earlier pronouncement by City Mayor Cherrylyn Santos-Akbar that this city is not joining the Bangsamoro Government.
Speaking on May 17 at a public forum, City Councilor Nida Dans said that the opposition of the city mayor to the Bangsamoro was her personal stand and does not represent the entire constituents of Isabela City. On April 14, Mayor Santos-Akbar openly declared her resistance to the inclusion of this city to the future Bangsamoro.
“There was a petition made by Mayor Cherrylyn Santos but the Council members denied it as they have not seen yet the BBL (i.e. Bangsamoro Basic Law). It was her will alone to say no but not the constituents of Isabela City,” Councilor Dans claimed during the consultation organized by the Mindanao Civil Society Organizations Platform for Peace (MCSOPP) at BASELCO conference hall.
Basilan Provincial Administrator Tahira Ismail also aired similar concern.
“Nagugulat ako kung bakit nagkalat ang balita sa buong lalawigan na kaming mga nasa hanay ng LGUs ay ayaw daw sa BBL at boboto ng ‘NO’ sa darating na plebisito. Paano kami umaayaw hindi naman kami nakapagsabi nyan at hindi rin kmi naimbita sa mga consultasyon ng mga kababaihan at hindi namin alam ang nilalaman ng BBL,… kung nag-NO ang Isabela ay hindi ibig sabihin lahat ng mamayan ng Basilan ay umaayaw din.” (I am surprised by the news in the entire province that we in the LGUs are against the BBL and would vote NO in the coming plebiscite. How can we be against it when we didn’t say anything and we weren’t also invited to women’s consultations and we don’t know yet the contents of BBL … if Isabela says NO it does not mean all people of Basilan are also saying the same thing.)
The forum was primarily intended for local government officials. Present were Basilan Vice Governor Al Rasheed Sakalahul, Board Member Candu I. Muarip, former BM Jubaira Said, Isabela City Councilor Nida Dans, Lamitan City Councilor Noel Baul and Provincial Administrator Ismail who represented Governor Jum Akbar. Also seen were Isabela City Bishop Martin Jumoad, PARO Suwaib Ismail, Lt. Col. Mongao of the 104th Brigade (PA), representatives of municipal mayors and several officials of line agencies, CSOs, NGOs and the MILF.
Resource persons to the said event were BTC Commissioners Abdulla Camlian and Pedrito Eisma, both of whom are natives of Basilan.
Commissioner Eisma explained that the term Bangsamoro “is not an Islamic State as most of the Christians think but rather it is inclusive because there are reserve seats for the Christians, IPs and other sectors in the Bangsamoro lands.”
http://www.luwaran.com/index.php/welcome/item/1006-“isabela-city-not-closing-its-door-to-bangsamoro”
“There was a petition made by Mayor Cherrylyn Santos but the Council members denied it as they have not seen yet the BBL (i.e. Bangsamoro Basic Law). It was her will alone to say no but not the constituents of Isabela City,” Councilor Dans claimed during the consultation organized by the Mindanao Civil Society Organizations Platform for Peace (MCSOPP) at BASELCO conference hall.
Basilan Provincial Administrator Tahira Ismail also aired similar concern.
“Nagugulat ako kung bakit nagkalat ang balita sa buong lalawigan na kaming mga nasa hanay ng LGUs ay ayaw daw sa BBL at boboto ng ‘NO’ sa darating na plebisito. Paano kami umaayaw hindi naman kami nakapagsabi nyan at hindi rin kmi naimbita sa mga consultasyon ng mga kababaihan at hindi namin alam ang nilalaman ng BBL,… kung nag-NO ang Isabela ay hindi ibig sabihin lahat ng mamayan ng Basilan ay umaayaw din.” (I am surprised by the news in the entire province that we in the LGUs are against the BBL and would vote NO in the coming plebiscite. How can we be against it when we didn’t say anything and we weren’t also invited to women’s consultations and we don’t know yet the contents of BBL … if Isabela says NO it does not mean all people of Basilan are also saying the same thing.)
The forum was primarily intended for local government officials. Present were Basilan Vice Governor Al Rasheed Sakalahul, Board Member Candu I. Muarip, former BM Jubaira Said, Isabela City Councilor Nida Dans, Lamitan City Councilor Noel Baul and Provincial Administrator Ismail who represented Governor Jum Akbar. Also seen were Isabela City Bishop Martin Jumoad, PARO Suwaib Ismail, Lt. Col. Mongao of the 104th Brigade (PA), representatives of municipal mayors and several officials of line agencies, CSOs, NGOs and the MILF.
Resource persons to the said event were BTC Commissioners Abdulla Camlian and Pedrito Eisma, both of whom are natives of Basilan.
Commissioner Eisma explained that the term Bangsamoro “is not an Islamic State as most of the Christians think but rather it is inclusive because there are reserve seats for the Christians, IPs and other sectors in the Bangsamoro lands.”
http://www.luwaran.com/index.php/welcome/item/1006-“isabela-city-not-closing-its-door-to-bangsamoro”
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