The Women’s Organizations Movement of the Bangsamoro (WOMB) with Al-Amanah Humanitarian and Development Services, Inc. (AHDSI) as Lead Convenor initiated a Multi-Sectoral Peace Summit with Press Conference held at EM-Manor Hotel, Cotabato City on November 26, 2015.
The peace summit was aimed to unify multi-sectoral stand and come up with a strong position paper for a “No to BL-BAR (Diluted BBL)” and urged Congress for the passage of a CAB-Compliant BBL.
Guest speakers were Honorable Bai Sandra Sinsuat Sema, 1st District Representative of Maguindanao and Cotabato City and Prof. Abhoud Syed M. Lingga, Executive Director, Institute of Bangsamoro Studies. The event was attended by over 250 individuals representing 62 organizations from different sectors.
The speakers highlighted their perspective and understandings about FAB, CAB including the BBL. Hon. Representative Sema updated the audience about the status of the Bangsamoro Basic Law (BBL) in the House of Representatives. She said, “I am very sorry that I cannot inspire you about the BBL because its status is not inspirable or not even calendared in the House.” However, despite that she assured the audience to make the most of what can be done on the remaining sessions on the BBL by continue engaging strategically with the legislators specifically with the women legislators.
She called on the WOMB and the youth for a strategic dialogue with the women legislators where she will facilitate so that they can personally feel and listen to the voices and sentiments of the Bangsamoro women and youth.
She also posed the challenge to the group; for women to inspire their children by supporting their education and for asatidz (pl. of ustadz) to inspire and strengthen the planting of Islamic seed to the minds and hearts of the youth today….as she said, “malay natin doon pa mangyayari ang ating layunin.”
Prof. Abhoud Syed Lingga, highlighted his topic on “CAB Compliant BBL: A Legitimate Solution to the Bangsamoro Question.” He gave emphasis on deepening the participants’ understanding on FAB, CAB and BBL. He stressed that the problem of the Bangsamoro is all about political and economic aspects.
He said that all the issues were actually given detailed answers in the drafted BBL. For him, it must be the Bangsamoro people who should govern its political and economic governance, it is not the other people. He also suggested to the audience to learn a lesson from those experiences and to conduct workshops to master the art of lobbying.
As he ended, Prof. Lingga inspired the participants to keep holding on to the signed peace agreements between the two parties (the GPH & MILF) and to continue to assert the call for “No to BLBAR (Diluted BBL) – Yes to BBL (CAB Compliant).” He continued to say that once BBL is not enacted then, we will not accept any revised BBL otherwise the signed peace agreements specifically the FAB and CAB will be useless.
Among the highlights of the peace summit was the signing of the “Multi-Sectoral Groups” Statement on the Passage of the Bangsamoro Basic Law” and the signing of the 10’x12’ Tarpauline with “No to BLBAR (Diluted BBL)-Yes to BBL (CAB Compliant BBL) quotation. The statement was signed by the representatives of the 62 organizations and the tarpaulin was signed by all the participants.
The ABS CBN attended the peace summit and interviewed one (1) representative of the WOMB and also Congresswoman Sema.
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