BTC Chairman Mohagher Iqbal appealed on November 24 to officials of Cotabato City’s 37 barangays to become a part of the Bangsamoro because their “future is in the Bangsamoro.”
In his message read for him by BTC Commissioner Peter Eisma, Iqbal mentioned both economic and social reasons that serve as “our golden opportunity that may not present itself again if we miss it.”
“Surely, with its financial institutions and service economy, Cotabato City stands to gain a lot, as it has over the past 25 years in spite of its being temporary seat of the ARMM,” Iqbal said.
He added that “more than the economics of it, the Bangsamoro is a remedy to social problems like peace and order. The normalization process will set into motion, among other things, the joint efforts of the AFP, PNP and BIAF in disbanding private armies and other armed groups that have been the scourge of our communities.”
“It has everything to gain and nothing to lose if it decides to join the new political entity,” Iqbal emphasized.
In an event dubbed as “LGU Roundtable Discussion on the Proposed BBL” held at Southseas Mall of Cotabato City, barangay chairpersons and kagawads took turns in raising question to the panel of discussants led by Commissioners Eisma, Froilyn Mendoza and Timway Melanio Ulama.
Professor Raby Angkal of the MILF Political Committee and Atty. Haron Meling of the Office of the Chairman (BTC) also served as resource persons.
The gathering, organized by the United Youth of the Philippines (UnYPhil) –Women and supported by Giz (Deutsche Gesellchaft fur Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH and Zfd (Ziviler Friedensdient) or Civil Peace Service, was a culmination of the community dialogues held in 20 of the 37 barangays.
The forum tried to generate the perspective of the elected barangay officials as distinguished from the issues and concerns raised by their constituents during the two-month series of dialogues conducted in the barangays.
Main resource persons to the 20 community dialogues were BTC Comm. Mendoza, BTC Communications Group Head Abdullah Cusain, Prof. Angkal and Duma Mascud as alternate to Angkal.
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“Surely, with its financial institutions and service economy, Cotabato City stands to gain a lot, as it has over the past 25 years in spite of its being temporary seat of the ARMM,” Iqbal said.
He added that “more than the economics of it, the Bangsamoro is a remedy to social problems like peace and order. The normalization process will set into motion, among other things, the joint efforts of the AFP, PNP and BIAF in disbanding private armies and other armed groups that have been the scourge of our communities.”
“It has everything to gain and nothing to lose if it decides to join the new political entity,” Iqbal emphasized.
In an event dubbed as “LGU Roundtable Discussion on the Proposed BBL” held at Southseas Mall of Cotabato City, barangay chairpersons and kagawads took turns in raising question to the panel of discussants led by Commissioners Eisma, Froilyn Mendoza and Timway Melanio Ulama.
Professor Raby Angkal of the MILF Political Committee and Atty. Haron Meling of the Office of the Chairman (BTC) also served as resource persons.
The gathering, organized by the United Youth of the Philippines (UnYPhil) –Women and supported by Giz (Deutsche Gesellchaft fur Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH and Zfd (Ziviler Friedensdient) or Civil Peace Service, was a culmination of the community dialogues held in 20 of the 37 barangays.
The forum tried to generate the perspective of the elected barangay officials as distinguished from the issues and concerns raised by their constituents during the two-month series of dialogues conducted in the barangays.
Main resource persons to the 20 community dialogues were BTC Comm. Mendoza, BTC Communications Group Head Abdullah Cusain, Prof. Angkal and Duma Mascud as alternate to Angkal.
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