NoCot vice gov to MILF: Supreme Court is the best venue for debate

KIDAPAWAN CITY, Philippines - North Cotabato Vice Governor Emmanuel Piñol has accepted the challenged of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) for a debate regarding the peace issue in Mindanao. But Piñol said the debate must be done at the Supreme Court and not a nationally televised public debate as the MILF demanded. Khaled Musa, deputy chairperson of the MILF committee on information, issued the challenge in an article posted in the MILF website. He said Piñol, Zamboanga City Mayor Celso Lobregat, and Makati City Rep. Teodoro Locsin Jr are emerging as the leading anti-Moro politicians in the country. The vice governor said the Supreme Court is the right venue for a debate in order to come up with solutions for the long quest of peace in Mindanao. “I urge the MILF to prepare their best lawyers and let us talk peace issue in Mindanao at the Supreme Court,” Piñol said in his weekly radio program over dxND Radio for Peace. Piñol also challenged the MILF to prove their allegations that he is anti-Moro politician. The vice governor claimed that during his incumbency as governor of North Cotabato, he has sent hundreds of Moro youth in various schools. “If I am anti-Moro, I should not send these Moro children to school,” Piñol stressed. Some 500 Moro children were able to finished schooling under the Children of Peace program of the provincial government. - GMANews.TV