President Rodrigo Roa Duterte recognized the presence of to Minister Dickson P. Hermoso whom he appointed before as the Assistant Secretary of OPPAP and now as the Minister of Transportation and Communications (MOTC – BARMM), during the decommissioning of the first batch of 1,060 former MILF combatants at Gymnasium old Provincial Capitol compound, Brgy. Simuay Sultan Kudarat, Maguindanao.
Minister Hermoso has advocated the theme “Winning the Peace instead of War.” As Co-Chairman of Joint Peace and Security Committee (JPSC) GPH-MILF, Hermoso co-authored the normalization mechanism of former MILF combatants with the MILF spokesperson Von Al Haq whom his co-chair at the JPSC and at the same his deputy minister at the MOTC-BARMM.
The JPST and the decommissioning process are part of the normalization mechanism agreed by both MILF and the government of the Philippines (GPH) peace panel.
“The Joint Peace and Security Committee (JSPC) coordinate with two parties command structures on security arrangements relevant to its functions. We also develop policies and operational guidelines for the effective conduct of the decommissioning process” said Minister Hermoso with the concurrence of JPSC co-Chair Al Haq.