The groups that also compose of Notre Dame Center for Catechesis (NDCC), Mindanao Interfaith for Human Rights Advocacy (MIHRA), Solidarity Network for Justice and Peace (SNJP) and Concern Students for Justice and Peace (CSJP), convene at City Plaza at 4:00 to 7:00 PM, as part of the people’s unyielding quest for truth, justice, accountability and meaningful reforms in governance amid the deteriorating political crisis prodded by the $329-million ZTE-NBN scam.
Danny Vergara, resident pastor of JIL-Cotabato City, said that the interfaith prayer assembly is a dignified gathering of groups, sectors and individuals who are resolute to grasp the genuine truth of the overpriced ZTE-NBN deal and make all those involved, including Ms. Gloria Arroyo, accountable for their abuses and callousness.
Suara Bangsamoro’s national secretary-general, Bai Ali Indayla remarked that the movement calling for Arroyo’s resignation or ouster keeps mounting and intensifying as the political crisis drags on stressing that ‘Arroyo has a lot to answer including the all-out war policies against the Bangsamoro people, organized extra-judicial killings, Hello Garci scandal, electoral fraud and numerous cases of multi-billion peso graft and corruption involving her family and cronies.’
“The pathetic statement of CBCP could not give GMA some relief. Cries of people from all walks of life are intense. She has escaped judgment in the past, but people now decisively say, ‘Enough of Corruption, Enough of GMA!’ Indayla said.
The groups concluded the activity with the singing of ‘Bayan Ko’ that marks the almost every struggle of Filipino people since American and Japanese colonialism to the 1986 ‘People Power’ revolt that toppled the Marcos dictatorship.
Further, the groups emphasized to continue staging series of activities including street education, sinehang bayan (film viewing) and concert for truth to edify the people on the present political quagmire until the downfall of Arroyo’s regime. #
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