Yusop Jikiri, Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) Central Committee chairperson, addresses the thousands of residents who attended the forum on the Bangsamoro Organic Law (BOL) at the Mindanao State University campus in Patikul, Sul, on Saturday. (PNA Photo by Ely E. Dumaboc)
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By Teng L. Datu
Cotabato City Bureau Chief . 

ZAMBOANGA City — The leadership of the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) met with Presidential Peace Adviser Carlito G. Galvez Jr. recently to give assurance of their commitment to the campaign for the peaceful and orderly ratification of the Bangsamoro Organic Law (BOL).

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Yusop Jikiri, the chair of the MNLF central committee, led the group in stressing their support to President Rodrigo Duterte’s call to ratify the law.

Yusop Jikiri, Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) Central Committee chairperson, addresses the thousands of residents who attended the forum on the Bangsamoro Organic Law (BOL) at the Mindanao State University campus in Patikul, Sul, on Saturday. (PNA Photo by Ely E. Dumaboc)

Jikiri said the MNLF is “100 percent behind President Duterte’s aspiration to bring lasting peace and progress in Mindanao.”

Last Oct. 6, the MNLF central committee passed a resolution officially accepting and supporting the BOL, describing the law as the “more appropriate political solution to the Bangsamoro issue.”

In the resolution, the MNLF leadership vowed to mobilize their members and communities to actively “campaign and lobby” for the BOL in order to gain support for the upcoming plebiscite and “to ensure the success of the new Bangsamoro autonomy.”

Galvez congratulated the MNLF for carrying out orderly, peaceful and successful campaign rallies across the proposed territory of the future Bangsamoro autonomous region.

“You have shown to our people your passion and commitment on how we really wanted the BOL to push through and be ratified convincingly,” he told members of the MNLF central committee.

For the past weeks, the MNLF has been conducting several campaign rallies — independently and jointly with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) and other organizations — which generated thousands of supporters. The most recent was last Friday in Cotabato City where thousands joined the caravan.

The plebiscite is scheduled on Jan. 21 for the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao and the cities of Isabela, and Cotabato.

Another plebiscite is scheduled on Feb. 6 for Lanao del Norte, North Cotabato, and other areas that filed a petition to join the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao. (with reports from opapp)

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