{"id":147325,"date":"2018-01-18T21:28:51","date_gmt":"2018-01-19T02:28:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=147325"},"modified":"2018-01-18T21:28:51","modified_gmt":"2018-01-19T02:28:51","slug":"duterte-warns-of-war-in-mindanao-if-bbl-will-not-be-passed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/01\/18\/duterte-warns-of-war-in-mindanao-if-bbl-will-not-be-passed\/","title":{"rendered":"Duterte warns of war in Mindanao if BBL will not be passed"},"content":{"rendered":"
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FILE: President Rodrigo Roa Duterte (SIMEON CELI JR.\/PRESIDENTIAL PHOTO)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

MANILA<\/strong> \u2014 President Rodrigo Duterte on Thursday warned that war would happen in Mindanao if Bangsamoro Basic Law (BBL) will not be passed.<\/p>\n

\u201cKung walang mangyayari nito sa BBL ngayon (If nothing will happen to BBL now) or we change the Constitution or do not change the Constitution at all, there will be war in Mindanao. I can assure you, mamili kayo (you have to choose),\u201d President said in his speech during the launching of the Overseas Filipino Bank (OFBank) at the Liwasang Bonifacio in Manila.<\/p>\n

\u201cHindi ko na ma-control \u2018yan (I can no longer control that) and at this time, I said, it would be a double whammy because my enemy would be their friends, and who got – what would that be? It\u2019s the ISIS,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

President Duterte said it was about time to correct the \u201chistorical injustice\u201d committed against the Moro people.<\/p>\n

\u201cAng gusto ng Moro (what the Moro want), a sort of a severe form of decentralization,\u201d Duterte said.<\/p>\n

He said the decentralization was proposed to Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) founding chairman Nur Misuari during the time of former President Corazon \u2018Cory\u2019 Aquino.<\/p>\n

\u201cHindi akin \u2018yan (it did not come from me), those were promises made to the Moro all these years. Ako lang kasi, nakikita ko, (for me, what I can see) with the rise of ISIS, it becomes doubly troubling for us now,\u201d the President said.<\/p>\n

The proposed BBL is now being tackled in Congress with the House of Representatives assuring it will be passed by March this year.<\/p>\n

In the Senate, the subcommittee on BBL chairman Juan Miguel Zubiri said his panel would hold separate hearings beginning next week in Cotabato and Marawi City on the proposed Bangsamoro bill.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Presidential spokesperson Harry Roque has confirmed that Duterte has told Zubiri that the President would certify BBL as urgent.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is certified urgent,\u201d Roque said in a text message to the Palace reporters.<\/p>\n

Roque has said in previous media interview that President Duterte prefers to see BBL enacted first before Congress will take on another proposal to amend the Constitution. (PNA)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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