PLEASE BE WARNED: THE POSTER SAYING "SHE GAVE SABAH AWAY" IS WRONG!
IT IS NOT TRUE THAT MRS AQUINO GAVE SABAH AWAY... WE NEED NOT LIKE A PARTICULAR PRESIDENT BUT WE MUST STICK TO FACTS!
WE ARE RATHER SURPRISED TO READ AN ASSERTION IN SOME POSTS IN OTHER PAGES ON FACEBOOK THAT PRESIDENT CORY AQUINO GAVE SABAH AWAY.... To assert such notion is to play right into Malaysia's thieving hands!
BEFORE ANYTHING, we would like to assure everybody that we do not profess to be a pro-Aquino or pro-Marcos community nor anti any one of them. We are Patriots and as such defenders of Philippine sovereignty above all else.
We believe that those who insist that Pres Cory Aquino gave away Sabah are playing right into Malaysia's hands. They don't have to be pro-Aquino or pro-Marcos or even anti any one of them but FACTS ARE FACTS.
What is the basis of those accusing Mrs Aquino of "giving Sabah away?" The real question is what is the reason for saying that Mrs Aquino "gave Sabah away?" We have a suspicion that those who are asserting that the former president "gave Sabah away", in fact, oppose the nation's Sabah claim and use the tired, old, unfounded argument that Mrs Aquino had given Sabah away.
It is true that Mrs Aquino tried to convince the Kirams to give up or to abandon the Sabah claim In fact, Mrs Aquino, it was said, had tried to have a bill filed through Congress to officially drop the Sabah claim but the move received strong opposition and so was in itself dropped.
Besides, Mrs Aquino could not have given away Sabah until Republic Act 5446, which stipulates that Sabah is Philippine territory, is officially repealed. Understandably, Mrs Cory Aquino might not have been interested in getting it back or did not do what was needed to be done, eg.,taken Malaysia to the ICJ, but neither did she (she simply could not legally do it) relinquish sovereignty rights over Sabah which as everyone knows the Philippine government obtained under President Diosdado Macapagal when the Sultanate of Sulu, Sultan Esmail Kiram I officially transferred Sabah's sovereignty rights to the Republic on 12 Septe 1962 or a year before then Malaya Federation physically annexed Sabah.
Besides, Mrs Aquino could not have given away Sabah until Republic Act 5446, which stipulates that Sabah is Philippine territory, is officially repealed. Understandably, Mrs Cory Aquino might not have been interested in getting it back or did not do what was needed to be done, eg.,taken Malaysia to the ICJ, but neither did she (she simply could not legally do it) relinquish sovereignty rights over Sabah which as everyone knows the Philippine government obtained under President Diosdado Macapagal when the Sultanate of Sulu, Sultan Esmail Kiram I officially transferred Sabah's sovereignty rights to the Republic on 12 Septe 1962 or a year before then Malaya Federation physically annexed Sabah.
Moreover, the 1987 Constitution makes absolutely no mention of giving away sovereignty rights over Sabah which, again, the Philippines at the time possessed.
Here is Article 1 of the 1987 Constitution (promulgated under President Cory Aquino):
ARTICLE I- NATIONAL TERRITORY
The national territory comprises the Philippine archipelago, with all the islands and waters embraced therein, and all other territories over which the Philippines has sovereignty or jurisdiction, consisting of its terrestrial, fluvial and aerial domains, including its territorial sea, the seabed, the subsoil, the insular shelves, and other submarine areas.Allow us to be emphatic: "...all other territories over which the Philippines has sovereignty" ...
