The aliases being used by Moro Islamic Liberation Front
(MILF) chief peace negotiator Mohagher Iqbal will be up for discussion when the
Senate committee on local government resumes its public hearings on the
proposed Bangsamoro Basic Law (BBL) on Monday.
Senator Ferdinand ‘Bongbong’ Marcos Jr. on Thursday said he
will encourage Iqbal to attend the BBL hearings to explain the use of alias in
negotiating with the Philippine government.
“Yes, I will bring it up. This is an important revelation
and raises many questions,” Marcos, chairman of the Senate committee on local
government, said in a media interview.
Marcos said the Senate has to find out the implication of
the use of aliases and the reason why Iqbal has to use pseudonym in submitting
documents to the government.
“Who notarized the agreements he signed and what were the
docs he represented identifying himself as Iqbal? Why did he feel needed to
hide an alias? Who is he?,” Marcos asked.
Marcos also wanted to find out whether the Philippine
government peace panel knew that Iqbal is using alias.
“The Senate wants to know if we are negotiating with a ghost
or a true person,” Marcos said.
“This is entirely the first peace agreement in the world
which a government negotiated with a fictitious person. Even that negotiated by
other governments, those rebel leaders used their real names when signing peace
pacts,” he added.
For his part, Senator Vicente Sotto III said the government
“should not be talking to an unknown personality.”
In the recent House of Representatives inquiry into the
Mamasapano incident, Iqbal admitted the he has so many names but refused to
divulge his real name.
Iqbal has reportedly admitted that he did not use his real
name in the peace agreements signed between the MILF and the GPH.
As chief negotiator of the MILF, Iqbal has affixed his
signatures in the Framework Agreement on the Bangsamoro on October 15, 2012 and
Comprehensive Agreement on the Bangsamoro on March 27, 2014.
The two agreements have resulted in the drafting of the BBL
which seeks to create the Bangsamoro political entity that will replace the
Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao (ARMM).
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