The Office of the Ombudsman has dismissed the treason and inciting to sedition cases filed against Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process Secretary Teresita Quintos Deles, peace negotiators led by Miriam Coronel-Ferrer and Mohagher Iqbal, and members of the Bangsamoro Transition Commission (BTC) in connection with the peace agreement signed by the government with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) filed by former Manila Mayor Lito Atienza and three others, the Philippine News Agency said in its report on June 8.
In their complaints filed with the Manila City Prosecutors’ Office, they alleged that Deles and members of the government negotiating panel, including the members of the MILF negotiating panel, and several other government officials, including Supreme Court Associate Justice Marvic Leonen, who was the first chair of the GPH peace panel, and the commissioners of the BTC who drafted the Bangsamoro Basic Law (BBL), committed treason and the crime of inciting to sedition for pushing for and in getting the Comprehensive Agreement on the Bangsamoro (CAB) signed by the government and in pushing for the passage of the Bangsamoro Basic Law (BBL), which would implement the CAB.
Welcoming the decision of the Ombudsman, Sec. Deles said that the dismissal of the cases is an affirmation of then thorough legal processes. “On behalf of my colleagues in government who persevered to secure this peace agreement in the Bangsamoro, we thank the Ombudsman for upholding justice in these cases filed against us. This is a fitting endorsement so that efforts to secure peace in the Bangsamoro could continue in the next administration,” Deles said.
She noted that the proposed BBL “is clearly a document inciting peace, justice, order, unity, and goodwill among all peoples.”
“Contrary to the baseless accusations levelled against us, the CAB and the BBL sought to promote peace and progress in the Bangsamoro and the entire country,” Deles said.
For her part, Ferrer welcomed the dismissal of the charges, saying that the complaint was evidently a nuisance case that wasted the time and money of government institutions and unduly harassed the peace negotiators and the BTC commissioners.
In dismissing the cases, the Ombudsman upheld the findings of the Manila City Prosecutors’ Office that the charges filed by Atienza lacked merit and deserved to be dismissed.
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