{"id":44211,"date":"2015-03-06T18:35:34","date_gmt":"2015-03-06T10:35:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=44211"},"modified":"2015-03-06T18:37:56","modified_gmt":"2015-03-06T10:37:56","slug":"ph-peace-panel-chief-debunks-tending-lies-on-bbl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/03\/06\/ph-peace-panel-chief-debunks-tending-lies-on-bbl\/","title":{"rendered":"PH peace panel chief debunks &#8220;tending lies&#8221; on BBL"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_44212\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-44212\" style=\"width: 275px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/download1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-44212\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/download1.jpg\" alt=\"Facebook Photo\" width=\"275\" height=\"183\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-44212\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Facebook Photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA &#8212; Government chief peace negotiator, Miriam Coronel-Ferrer yesterday debunked\u00a0two misconceptions in the provisions of the proposed Bangsamoro Basic Law (BBL) and described it as &#8220;top two trending lies.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat is going on now, what are being emphasized, are the supposed bad things of the BBL without the bigger picture of what\u2019s good about it. This is my lament to the mass media, they only discuss the demerits without emphasizing the merits,\u201d Ferrer said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe discussions are inaccurate or total falsehood, but the text of the BBL is clear,&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n<p>The first of the two\u00a0misconceptions is that the proposed Bangsamoro autonomous region will have its own police force and army.<\/p>\n<p>The idea for this claim is the provision under\u00a0Article XI Section 2 of the draft BBL, which states that a Bangsamoro police force would be established for \u201claw enforcement and maintenance of peace and order in the Bangsamoro.<\/p>\n<p>Ferrer, however, clarified that the said police &#8220;will be part of the Philippine National Police.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Another misconception\u00a0is that the Moro Islamic Liberation Front will be handed a P75-billion fund under the BBL.<\/p>\n<p>Under\u00a0Article XIV Section 2 of the proposed BBL, the central government will be providing a special development fund to the\u00a0Bangsamoro \u201cfor rehabilitation and development purposes upon ratification\u201d of the draft law.<\/p>\n<p>But the fund will only amount to P7 billion for the first year after the bill is ratified and P10 billion in the second year\u00a0\u201cto be paid out to the Bangsamoro government over five years at the rate of P2 billion per year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Bangsamoro Transition Authority (BTA) will also be given P1 billion\u00a0\u201cto carry out the requirements of transition\u201d from the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) to the Bangsamoro autonomous region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA &#8212; Government chief peace negotiator, Miriam Coronel-Ferrer yesterday debunked\u00a0two misconceptions in the provisions of the proposed Bangsamoro Basic Law &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":44212,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ph","mauthors-lei-fontamillas","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44211\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}