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Mujiv Hataman on the recent spate of kidnappings

Saturday, February 21st, 2009

Recently, one of the active young moro leaders, Hon Mujiv Hataman (AMIN Partylist) guested on the early morning talk show of Joel Villanueva ADYENDA. From what Ive heard from his inputs, Ive seen that he has clearly eluciddated the following points:

1. There is clear absence of Governance in many LGU’s in ARMM areas specifically in the areas of ZAMBASULTA where these kidnappings take place (with notable exceptions of course), and since governance and the LGU executives could not resonate within the local populace, there is no actual process of peace and order. Imagine a PO1 relative of a mayor becomes chief of Police and the Municipal town hall unoccupied for six months inhabited by Goats.

2. There is a clear need for governance not only to be felt but for the communities to be actively participative, therefore to make sure that peace and Order becomes also a concern for them.

There were also other concerns raised by Cong Hataman, too many to be mentioned here. But what is worth saying is that we have a need to have more of his kind, selfless political leaders who continually strive for the betterment of their constituents. being a leader who rose from the ranks, Mujiv knows what he is saying and what changes are needed to be made. we do hope that Mujiv eventually is able to make the people in the national government realize that they should listen to his policy reccomendations or lose investor confidence.

Is the Moro Vote significant to a 2010 presidential candidate?

Monday, January 26th, 2009

The 2010 presidential elections is already in the air… you can smell it. Even my students who are political naivete’s have all started commenting on the issue. As a scholar and intellectual, one cannot but help if indeed these politicians have something in mind for the Future.

We know for a fact that by these time, Politicos have already mapped out the terrain, making shady deals, worshipping lizards, hanging Tarzans and even allowing themselves TV coverage, praying in Quiapo. WOW!

But for the moment before we start our sharp pen aiming for their necks let us have a discourse on what the people of Mindanao would expect.

I would like to pose a question, Is the Moro Vote significant to a 2010 presidential candidate?

Although we know that TEAM GLORIA relies much on central mindanao votes previously and that all political operators submerge themselves in the cash-strapped ARMM and Moro dominated provinces, little is there any news of any presidentiable trying to actually win the hearts and minds of the Moros. I dont mind asking if the ARMM people still aim to “vote” again for another administration candidate. But perhaps a genuine discourse on the Mindanao Issue can guarantee, the actual votes being cast for “Fulan” (presidentiable). Thinsg like, do you really like to have a federal form of government? would Fulan like to have another form of MOA AD signed? would he allow the setup of a government model simmilar to the federation of malaysian states? would he allow again malaysia to assist him in negotiating Peace, or allow China to help. Or Allow Barack Obama to help in establishing lasting peace in Mindanao. Your guess is as good as mine for Fulan Bin Fulan.

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Sunday, January 25th, 2009

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The MOA is NOT dead

Sunday, November 9th, 2008

By: Engr. Don Mustapha Arbison Loong

 
The MOA-AD is “dead”. This became the headline in newspapers when the Supreme Court (SC) declared the Memorandum of Agreement on Ancestral Domain (MOA-AD) as unconstitutional last October 14, 2008. The “death” of the MOA-AD had divided and polarized the country like never before in recent history. 

The debate on the MOA awakened dormant religious prejudice and discrimination between Muslims and Christians. While the people who were Anti-MOA celebrated, some Moros felt that they had lost something. Some other Moro sectors felt like an “anti-dote” to the Moro problem was deliberately withheld from them. Disillusioned MILF rebels renewed hostilities with the government forces. Suddenly, the dreaded “ilagas” emerge and revived past Muslim-Christian community conflicts. There is so much blissful celebration and emotional retaliation by each side respectively, yet only a few really know the issues involved that was “killed” by the Supreme Court decision.   (more…)

ON BEING A MORO AND A MUSLIM

Thursday, August 7th, 2008

(A Statement from the Office of Anak Mindanao Party List Representative Mujiv S. Hataman on the Privilege Speech of Rep. Teddy Boy Locsin)

When the Memorandum of Agreement on Ancestral Domain between the Government of the Republic of the Philippines and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front caused a wave of protests among different sectors of society, we feared the resurging of anti-Moro discrimination and prejudice.

Though we believed that the said Memorandum of Agreement could have been a major breakthrough in the peace process, we adhered and respected the Temporary Restraining Order issued by the Supreme Court, acknowledging the right to information and consultation raised by the protesters. We welcomed this opportunity for calmness, rationality and objectivity in the discussion and study of the Agreement, thereby easing our aforementioned fear.  (more…)

PRIVILEGE SPEECH AGAINST POSTPONEMENT OF ARMM ELECTION AND THE GRP-MILF MOA (By Congressman Locsin)

Thursday, August 7th, 2008

My classmate, Digs Dilangalen says, let us approach this issue calmly. That is easy to do for one who stands to gain an entirely new country. It is harder to do for a citizen of the country at whose expense that gain shall be made.

TOMORROW the Government of the Republic of the Philippines will sign with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, in Kuala Lumpur, the capital of the country that was funding the secessionist struggle in the South, a peace agreement. It is styled as an innocuous “MOA” (memorandum of agreement), supposedly on just the subject of ancestral domain. In truth, it shall be part of a comprehensive peace agreement whose details are, however, also spelled out in the MOA, which, for all intents and purposes, gives away the very vitals of a sovereign country, a republic and a democracy to boot. (more…)