From the Sun Star-Baguio (Sep 21): OPAPP: CPLA pact may stretch to 2016
OFFICE of the Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process (OPAPP) is batting to finish the peace agreement with the Cordillera Peoples Liberation Army (CPLA) by 2016.
Opapp Assistant secretary for programs for the Bangsamoro Howard Cafugauan attributed the seeming snail pace of the CPLA agreement on an "internal problem."
Cafugauan, who was in the city to speak in the peace agreements by the Opapp before 2014 National Literacy Conference and Awards at the Baguio Teachers Camp, acknowledged the internal problems besetting the CPLA here but declined to elaborate.
Today, CPLA chairman Arsenio Humiding is still hoping for an intervention from President Benigno Aquino III as well as a dialogue with the Opapp to clear issues on the implementation of the agreement which is moving slower than expected.
Cafugauan said the MOA with the CPLA is hoped to be completed before the term of Aquino ends in 2016.
In 2011, the President signed with the CPLA an agreement for peace and issued Executive Order 49, enjoining government agencies to ensure the smooth implementation of the closure agreement between the CPLA and the Philippine government.
There are four main components of the agreement between the government is comprised of; CPLA integration to the Armed forces of the Philippines; Community Development projects, Livelihood and a Legacy documentation, there is also a 5 year plan to help the CPLA become an economic force.
Cafugauan said the integration of the CPLA to the AFP has been achieved as well as other components to the MOA, some of which are in process.
An earlier CPLA meeting assessed the implementation of the MOA and revealed there is but 50 percent of projects completed.
Under the agreement, the projects should have been fully implemented 8 months after the signing. It has been almost three years.
Factions continue to plague the CPLA with another group recently being sworn “into office.”
http://www.sunstar.com.ph/baguio/local-news/2014/09/19/opapp-cpla-pact-may-stretch-2016-366484
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