Wednesday, August 20, 2014

MILF: Vice President Binay visits Maguindanao, supports Bangsamoro

Posted to the MILF Website (Aug 20): Vice President Binay visits Maguindanao, supports Bangsamoro

In his recent visit to Cotabato City and Maguindanao, Vice President Jejomar Binay expressed support to the creation of the Bangsamoro government in 2016. Binay however, denied his visits here and to various towns in Maguindanao were part of the early campaign trail for his presidential bid in 2016, MindaNews reported.
  
VP Binay was welcomed by both administration and opposition leaders during his visit on Sunday. August 17 and Monday, August 18.

Binay expressed his support to the passage of the Bangsamoro Basic Law (BBL) on Monday in Sultan Kudarat town as it celebrated its 67th foundation anniversary.

Once passed by Congress and ratified by the constituents, the BBL will entrench the Bangsamoro government to replace the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM).

The creation of the Bangsamoro government was envisioned by the Comprehensive Agreement on the Bangsamoro, the final peace agreement of the government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) signed last March 27.

Binay chanted Takbir thrice in expressing support to the passage of the BBL, which the crowd exuberantly responded with “Allahu Akbar” (God is the greatest).

Datu Tucao Mastura, former Sultan Kudarat town mayor and the provincial stalwart of the United Nationalist Alliance, Binay’s political party, lauded the vice president’s support to the BBL.
It is an “expression of giving importance to the dream of the Bangsamoro people,” Mastura said.
Also in attendance during Sultan Kudarat town’s foundation anniversary were ARMM Gov. Mujiv Hataman, 6th Infantry Division commander Brig. Gen. Edmundo Pangilinan, top ARMM police officials, and several local government officials of the province. He also met with members of the Archdiocese of Cotabato and members of his Alpha Phi Omega (APO).

While in Datu Odin Sinsuat town on Sunday for the inauguration of a Seniors Citizen Building which his office funded, Maguindanao Vice Governor Datu Lester Sinsuat, a Liberal Party stalwart, introduced Binay as “the next President of the Republic of the Philippines.” Binay thanked the young vice governor for the “endorsement,” and later “denied that he was in the province to campaign early for his 2016 presidential bid.”

Binay was joined by former Tarlac Governor Margarita “Ting-Ting” Cojuangco, Paranaque Rep. Gustavo Tambunting and Valenzuela City Rep. Sherwin Gatchalian in his trips. (Source: MindaNews, August 19, 2014)
http://www.luwaran.com/index.php/welcome/item/1162-vice-president-binay-visits-maguindanao-supports-bangsamoro

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