On
Saturday, September 19, Malacañan said that “amendments are on the way to forge
a version of Bangsamoro Basic Law (BBL) that is acceptable by everyone”. The
statement came after Mohagher Iqbal, Chief Negotiator of the Moro Islamic
Liberation Front (MILF) said that the version of the proposed BBL from the
Senate and the House of Representatives is "unacceptable".
Presidential
Spokesperson Secretary Edwin Lacierda in an interview on state-run dzRB said
the concerns of all the stakeholders are being considered.
“It
requires the legislative mill to take its course, and the concerns of the MILF,
the concerns of all the stakeholders—whatever they are—they have to be
discussed because we are going through the legislative process, which is the
role of the legislative branch,” he said.
“So, kung
may concerns ang MILF, mayroon na kaming mga suggested amendment po na ginagawa.
All that will have to be threshed out in the plenary, in the Senate and in the
House floor. So let’s allow the debates to happen so that we can come up with a
workable, operational, and a BBL that will be acceptable to all,” he added.
Iqbal made
the statement during a forum on Friday where the Government and MILF panels
discussed the status of the BBL, with only eight months left for President
Benigno Aquino III's administration.
Iqbal also
said during the forum that it was better to have no BBL than have a “bad”
version of it.
"The
issue on natural resources is the number one... Autonomy without access to
revenues from natural resources is a joke," he said referring to
provisions deleted by the House of Representatives.
Still, he
said the MILF is counting on the Congress and the Aquino administration to pass
the BBL.
“As a
negotiator for more than 10 years, we've been in the rough and tumble. Whatever
confronts us, we try to overcome it... We're open for improvement and
enhancement. But we hope the essential components of an autonomous government
is retained,” he said.
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