House Ad Hoc Committee on the Bangsamoro Basic Law on
Tuesday welcomed the full support of the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF)
group led by Chairman Datu Abul Khayr Alonto to the Comprehensive Agreement on
the Bangsamoro and the BBL as its legal iteration.
The panel chairman and Cagayan de Oro City Rep. Rufus
Rodriguez said that a statement signed by Alonto and Moro Islamic Liberation
Front chair Al Haj Murad Ebrahim expressed a reiteration of MNLF's support to
the "full implementation of the Comprehensive Agreement on the Bangsamoro
particularly the Framework Agreement on the Bangsamoro and all its annexes as
published in the MNLF Declaration of Unity at Lama Mardeka published on March
18, 2014."
Alonto is a founding leader of the MNLF and first vice chairman
of the original MNLF Central Committee. Early last year, he was elected by 35
out of the 39 surviving members of the original Central Committee as their
head, and represents one of the three groups of the MNLF.
He said that the statement of support of the MNLF comes
ahead of a scheduled public hearing of the Ad Hoc Committee on the BBL tomorrow
[Jan. 21] in which MNLF members were invited to attend to ensure that their
concerns are heard and serve as inputs to the drafting of an inclusive law.
“We welcome the support of the MNLF-Chairman Alonto group,”
Rodriguez said. “It has always been our position that the proposed Bangsamoro
Basic Law is not only for the MILF, but is for all Bangsamoro, all Muslims,
Christians and Lumads, and all other groups and sectors.”
Meanwhile, Rodriguez said the statement also cited that both
Moro fronts agree to "continue working together to foster strong Unity,
Solidarity and Brotherhood as one Bangsamoro people."
Just last year, the MILF and MNLF, under the auspices of the
Organization of Islamic Cooperation, formally activated the Bangsamoro
Cooperation Forum, a mechanism for coordination between the two fronts
"towards achieving the aspiration of the Bangsamoro people towards just
and lasting peace and peaceful resolution of their problems."
The statement, he said also called on the rest of the
Filipino nation to “rally behind the President and Congress… for the immediate
passage of the Bangsamoro Basic Law and the establishment of the Bangsamoro
government.”
The BBL is expected to be passed by Congress by March 15,
followed by a plebiscite in the envisioned core territory towards the
entrenchment of the Bangsamoro political entity.
Also present during the signing of the statement were
members of the MNLF pioneer Top 90 group with their four succeeding batches,
and members of the Bangsa Bae Women Medical Corps.
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