Bangsamoro Transition Commission (BTC) Chairman Mohagher Iqbal said on Monday (September 22) that our people now must be made to understand how the proposed Bangsamoro Basic Law (BBL) would impact on their lives now that its contents are readily available to the public.
This he said during a media roundtable discussion on the BBL at the Ateneo de Manila University (ADMU).
Iqbal admitted that “people from all walks of life have been asking for copies of the draft” since April 22 of this year when the BTC submitted its original draft to the Office of the President (OP).
But prudence dictated,according to Iqbal, that they settle everything first before the draft was made available to all.
He recalled how “marathon sessions and workshops (that) became necessary and have to be convened after the OP returned the draft to the BTC on June 23…”
On July 3, BTC passed a resolution elevating the process to the GPH-MILF Peace Negotiating Panels for clarification, discussion and resolution of issues that may have been affected by the revisions in the original draft BBL.
From July 7 to September 7, series of meetings happened in the cities of Kuala Lumpur, Manila and Davao to thresh out all contentious issues.
On September 10, President Benigno S. Aquino III officially transmitted the draft BBL to Senate President Franklin Drilon and House Speaker Feliciano Belmonte, Jr. in turn-over rites held at Malacanan Palace.
Now that the draft BBL is already a legislative bill, Iqbal said that what’s timely and proper to do is, among several things, to engage the public via the media.
“Public perception and opinion are certainly influenced and shaped by the stroke of the pen, or by the airwaves, or by the pervasive social media,” Iqbal said of the potent power of media men.
Joining Iqbal at the Faber Hall of ADMU were Commissioners Akmad Sakkam and Abdula Camlian as well as MILF Peace Panel Member Datu Antonio Kinoc who took turns in answering questions that ranged from identity, security and women issues on the proposed BBL.
GPH Peace Panel Chairman Professor Miriam Coronel-Ferrer was also present but had to leave early for a budget hearing. She was substituted by Panel member Senen Bacani.
The Ateneo event could be the first in a series of ten roundtable discussions with media being planned to be held in 10 key cities all over the country.
Together with the BTC Communications Group, it was organised by MindaNews and supported by Conciliation Resources, the International Organization for Migration (IOM), Philippine Council for Islam and Democracy (PCID), the National Union of Journalists in the Philippines (NUJP), the Philippine Press Institute (PPI), the European Union (EU) and the UK Aid.
Ateneo President Fr. Jose Ramon Villarin, SJ welcomed the resource persons and participants while Besim Ajeti (IOM Head of Cotabato Office) and Amina Rasul of PCID gave messages of support.
The next roundtable discussion would be held in Davao City.
http://www.luwaran.com/index.php/welcome/item/1228-“people-must-understand-the-bbl”
Iqbal admitted that “people from all walks of life have been asking for copies of the draft” since April 22 of this year when the BTC submitted its original draft to the Office of the President (OP).
But prudence dictated,according to Iqbal, that they settle everything first before the draft was made available to all.
He recalled how “marathon sessions and workshops (that) became necessary and have to be convened after the OP returned the draft to the BTC on June 23…”
On July 3, BTC passed a resolution elevating the process to the GPH-MILF Peace Negotiating Panels for clarification, discussion and resolution of issues that may have been affected by the revisions in the original draft BBL.
From July 7 to September 7, series of meetings happened in the cities of Kuala Lumpur, Manila and Davao to thresh out all contentious issues.
On September 10, President Benigno S. Aquino III officially transmitted the draft BBL to Senate President Franklin Drilon and House Speaker Feliciano Belmonte, Jr. in turn-over rites held at Malacanan Palace.
Now that the draft BBL is already a legislative bill, Iqbal said that what’s timely and proper to do is, among several things, to engage the public via the media.
“Public perception and opinion are certainly influenced and shaped by the stroke of the pen, or by the airwaves, or by the pervasive social media,” Iqbal said of the potent power of media men.
Joining Iqbal at the Faber Hall of ADMU were Commissioners Akmad Sakkam and Abdula Camlian as well as MILF Peace Panel Member Datu Antonio Kinoc who took turns in answering questions that ranged from identity, security and women issues on the proposed BBL.
GPH Peace Panel Chairman Professor Miriam Coronel-Ferrer was also present but had to leave early for a budget hearing. She was substituted by Panel member Senen Bacani.
The Ateneo event could be the first in a series of ten roundtable discussions with media being planned to be held in 10 key cities all over the country.
Together with the BTC Communications Group, it was organised by MindaNews and supported by Conciliation Resources, the International Organization for Migration (IOM), Philippine Council for Islam and Democracy (PCID), the National Union of Journalists in the Philippines (NUJP), the Philippine Press Institute (PPI), the European Union (EU) and the UK Aid.
Ateneo President Fr. Jose Ramon Villarin, SJ welcomed the resource persons and participants while Besim Ajeti (IOM Head of Cotabato Office) and Amina Rasul of PCID gave messages of support.
The next roundtable discussion would be held in Davao City.
http://www.luwaran.com/index.php/welcome/item/1228-“people-must-understand-the-bbl”
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