– The Bangsamoro government signed a Memorandum of Agreement with the Blas F. Ople Policy Center, Tuesday, at the Bangsamoro Government Center in Cotabato City aimed at creating a Bangsamoro Task Force against human trafficking in the region to protect the rights of Bangsamoro Overseas Filipino Workers.
The signing was attended by Bangsamoro Executive Secretary Abdulraof Macacua, Assistant Executive Secretary Abdullah Cusain, Attorney General Sha Elijah Dumama-Alba, and other officials from BARMM’s different ministries and offices. “We owe a lot to the Bangsamoro OFWs who actively campaigned for the passage of the Bangsamoro Organic Law and publicly supported and encouraged their family to vote ‘yes’ to the ratification of the said law exactly a year ago yesterday, [January 21, 2020],” he added.
“It is unfortunate that our OFWs are vulnerable to human trafficking, but it is more unfortunate that despite the rising statistics of human trafficking involving OFWs, more and more Filipinos are enticed by the promise of a greener pasture abroad,” he added.