From the Mindanao Examiner (Sep 26, 2023): Exclusive: MNLF leaders move to oust Misuari’s son as vice chairman
MNLF Chairman Nur Misuari kisses his son Abdulkarim Misuari in this photo from the Facebook page of Abdulkarim Misuari, the MNLF Vice Chairman and Bangsamoro Parliament Deputy Speaker.
ZAMBOANGA CITY – Senior leaders of the former rebel group Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) have passed a resolution seeking to remove the eldest son of group’s chieftain Nur Misuari for betrayal and usurpation and abuse of authority.
The resolution, signed September 15 by Sheikh Mohamad Parid Solaiman Adas, the MNLF’s Secretary General for Islamic Affairs, accused Ustadz Abdulkarim Misuari of betraying the cause of the MNLF for accepting the government’s offer for him to be the Deputy Speaker of the Bangsamoro Transition Authority Parliament.
“It is obvious that the subject person/officer have grossly betrayed the MNLF cause by accepting the government’s offer in the BARMM (Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao) and abandoning the gains of the MNLF-GRP peace processes without a clear and transparent consultation with MNLF Central committee members, and the MNLF general membership as a whole. Since Ustadz Abdulkarim T. Misuari assumed, he and company maliciously cordoned the MNLF Chairman Professor Nur Misuari and prohibited anyone, senior officers or not, to visit him, except for some few, they knew will adhere to their agenda. Likewise, they prohibited anyone from discussing with the Chairman, the MNLF plans and programs beyond what the Office of the Presidential Advisor for Peace, Reconciliation and Unity (OPAPRU) dictates,” read the resolution, a copy of it was seen by The Mindanao Examiner Regional Newspaper.
Misuari along with his half-sister Nurredha Ibrahim Misuari was appointed to the Bangsamoro Transition Authority Parliament by President Ferdinand Marcos Jr on August 12, 2022.
He is the eldest son of six children of Nur Misuari and Desdemona Tan. He was born in December 1974 in Malaysia in the first year of his parents’ life in exile which would last for at least two decades. He spent much of his life in Libya, Egypt, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Syria.
The resolution further said that the young Misuari has long been acting beyond the limits of his position by using his father’s official letterhead and that of the official MNLF Central Committee letterhead.
“The subject person/officer has long been acting beyond the limits of his position by using the MNLF Chairman’s letterhead and the Central Committee. He is solely representing the MNLF in general in his dealings with the OPAPRU undermining the existing peace process such as the 1996 Final Peace Agreement and using his position to bully and malign fellow officers based on his own judgment and conclusion,” it said.
MNLF officials also accused Misuari as an incompetent leader.
“As such, the undersigned officers with their corresponding signatures by virtue of power and authority vested in us by the MNLF Founding Leader and the Central Committee Chairman, Professor Nur Misuari, and by the recommendation of the majority of the MNLF, organs committees, and national units in the Bangsamoro homeland, and in accordance to the grounds above mentioned, Ustadz Abdulkarim T. Misuari is hereby recommended to be terminated of his present position as MNLF Vice Chairman and Chairman of the Security Subcommittee of the MNLF Peace Coordinating Committee,” it added.
The resolution further said that the MNLF as an organization needed to be calibrated, rectified and attuned to the principle of collectivism, consultative and transparency to attain the noble cause of the Bangsamoro struggle, and that it has to refocus on the gains of all signed agreements by letter and spirit and not by adhering to the dictate of the OPAPRU such as the Transformation Program for the MNLF and the like.
OPAPRU said the Transformation Program is anchored on the provisions of the 1996 Final Peace Agreement which put an end to the decades-long armed conflict between the government and the MNLF, and brought increased peace, security and stability in the southern region.
It said the MNLF Transformation Program aims to facilitate the transition of MNLF members, especially those who were not integrated into the Armed Forces of the Philippines and the Philippine National Police under the peace deal, as well as their families into peaceful and productive civilians.
The young Misuari initially trained as a commander to fight for the MNLF, but became an ustadz of religious teacher instead following the wish of his mother. He also served as chief liaison officer in the Gulf States for the MNLF.
There was no immediate statement from Misuari regarding the move by senior MNLF leaders to impeach him. (Mindanao Examiner)
https://mindanaoexaminernewspaper.blogspot.com/2023/09/exclusive-mnlf-leaders-move-to-oust.html
ZAMBOANGA CITY – Senior leaders of the former rebel group Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) have passed a resolution seeking to remove the eldest son of group’s chieftain Nur Misuari for betrayal and usurpation and abuse of authority.
The resolution, signed September 15 by Sheikh Mohamad Parid Solaiman Adas, the MNLF’s Secretary General for Islamic Affairs, accused Ustadz Abdulkarim Misuari of betraying the cause of the MNLF for accepting the government’s offer for him to be the Deputy Speaker of the Bangsamoro Transition Authority Parliament.
“It is obvious that the subject person/officer have grossly betrayed the MNLF cause by accepting the government’s offer in the BARMM (Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao) and abandoning the gains of the MNLF-GRP peace processes without a clear and transparent consultation with MNLF Central committee members, and the MNLF general membership as a whole. Since Ustadz Abdulkarim T. Misuari assumed, he and company maliciously cordoned the MNLF Chairman Professor Nur Misuari and prohibited anyone, senior officers or not, to visit him, except for some few, they knew will adhere to their agenda. Likewise, they prohibited anyone from discussing with the Chairman, the MNLF plans and programs beyond what the Office of the Presidential Advisor for Peace, Reconciliation and Unity (OPAPRU) dictates,” read the resolution, a copy of it was seen by The Mindanao Examiner Regional Newspaper.
Misuari along with his half-sister Nurredha Ibrahim Misuari was appointed to the Bangsamoro Transition Authority Parliament by President Ferdinand Marcos Jr on August 12, 2022.
He is the eldest son of six children of Nur Misuari and Desdemona Tan. He was born in December 1974 in Malaysia in the first year of his parents’ life in exile which would last for at least two decades. He spent much of his life in Libya, Egypt, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Syria.
The resolution further said that the young Misuari has long been acting beyond the limits of his position by using his father’s official letterhead and that of the official MNLF Central Committee letterhead.
“The subject person/officer has long been acting beyond the limits of his position by using the MNLF Chairman’s letterhead and the Central Committee. He is solely representing the MNLF in general in his dealings with the OPAPRU undermining the existing peace process such as the 1996 Final Peace Agreement and using his position to bully and malign fellow officers based on his own judgment and conclusion,” it said.
MNLF officials also accused Misuari as an incompetent leader.
“As such, the undersigned officers with their corresponding signatures by virtue of power and authority vested in us by the MNLF Founding Leader and the Central Committee Chairman, Professor Nur Misuari, and by the recommendation of the majority of the MNLF, organs committees, and national units in the Bangsamoro homeland, and in accordance to the grounds above mentioned, Ustadz Abdulkarim T. Misuari is hereby recommended to be terminated of his present position as MNLF Vice Chairman and Chairman of the Security Subcommittee of the MNLF Peace Coordinating Committee,” it added.
The resolution further said that the MNLF as an organization needed to be calibrated, rectified and attuned to the principle of collectivism, consultative and transparency to attain the noble cause of the Bangsamoro struggle, and that it has to refocus on the gains of all signed agreements by letter and spirit and not by adhering to the dictate of the OPAPRU such as the Transformation Program for the MNLF and the like.
OPAPRU said the Transformation Program is anchored on the provisions of the 1996 Final Peace Agreement which put an end to the decades-long armed conflict between the government and the MNLF, and brought increased peace, security and stability in the southern region.
It said the MNLF Transformation Program aims to facilitate the transition of MNLF members, especially those who were not integrated into the Armed Forces of the Philippines and the Philippine National Police under the peace deal, as well as their families into peaceful and productive civilians.
The young Misuari initially trained as a commander to fight for the MNLF, but became an ustadz of religious teacher instead following the wish of his mother. He also served as chief liaison officer in the Gulf States for the MNLF.
There was no immediate statement from Misuari regarding the move by senior MNLF leaders to impeach him. (Mindanao Examiner)
https://mindanaoexaminernewspaper.blogspot.com/2023/09/exclusive-mnlf-leaders-move-to-oust.html
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