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Volume VIII, No. 003
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May 22, 2018
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President Duterte meets abducted policewomen
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avao City — President Rodrigo Duterte on Saturday, May 19, met with the two police officers who were abducted by the Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) in Sulu.
The two policemen were identified as Police Officer (PO) 2 Benierose Alvarez and PO1 Dinah Gumahad. They were abducted in Patikul town on April 29 by 11 armed men believed to be members of ASG. According to military reports, the police officers had just left Camp Teodulfo Bautista aboard a tricycle when they were abducted in Barangay Liang in Patikul town.
Presidential Peace Adviser Jesus Dureza, who was present during the turnover ceremony, told President Duterte that the negotiations initiated by local government officials and community leaders have helped a lot in securing the freedom of two lady cops. He also reported to the President that the two policewomen already had their medical checkup and
See abducted, page 11
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President Rodrigo Roa Duterte met with the two kidnapped policewomen who were presented to the President at the Tactical Operations Group (TOG)-11 in Davao City on May 19, 2018 following their rescue. Police officers PO3 Benierose Alvarez and PO1 Dinah Gumahad were presented to the President after they were rescued through joint efforts from the Armed Forces of the Philippines, Philippine National Police (PNP) and the Moro National Liberation Front. The two were kidnapped last April 30 by a certain Adiang Adiang whom investigators suspect are connected with the Abu Sayyaf Group. Joining the President during the presentation of the rescued police officers were Sec. Bong Go of the Office of the Special Assistant to the President, Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process Jesus Dureza, PNP Director General Oscar Albayalde, Joint Task Force Sulu Commander Brigadier General Cirilito Sobejana, Moro National Liberation Front Chairman Nur Misuari and his wife Tarhata.
Hardship leads NPA combatant to yield CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY – A member of the Communist Party New People’s Army terrorist voluntarily surrendered to the army’s 30th Infantry Battalion (30IB Headquarters) in Barangay Sta Cruz, Placer, Surigao del Norte, the military reported. A belated military report reaching here said that Jesson Platil Sumalinog also known as (AKA) Bong or Hyson, 24, of Sitio Brazil, Barangay Mat-I, Surigao City, Surigao del Norte surrendered to the military
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ang raspn nga nisurrender ko. (I can no longer take the hardship I had experienced in the life of being a member of the NPA. The hunger and desire to be with my family are the reasons why I decided to surrender)” Sumalinog said. He told the military that several NPA members are having second thoughts in continuing the armed struggle because of same difficulties they have been experiencing. Lieutenant Colonel Allen Raymund Tomas, Com-
manding Officer of 30IB call on the leadership of the GFC16B to give medical attention to their wounded comrades from the encounter last May 5. “Wounded NPAs have a right to be treated in a proper medical facility. Leadership of Guerilla Front 16B should not let their wounded comrades be treated with their self-trained medical person in the mountains.” Tomas said. Government’s Comprehensive Local Integration See yield, page 11
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Pimentel resigns as Senate president, nominates Sotto MANILA — Senator Aquilino “Koko” Pimentel III has stepped down as Senate president on Monday, nominating Majority Leader Senator Vicente “Tito” Sotto III as his successor. “I will be the one who will nominate Senator Tito Sotto as Senate president,” Pimentel said in a media briefing. In his speech, the outgoing Senate president said he was grateful that he
was able to lead the upper chamber, a post his father, former Senate President Aquilino “Nene” Pimentel Jr. has held in the past. “I step down knowing that I did my best to do this. I wish my successor, Senator Sotto good health and Godspeed, and pledge to help the new leadership pass pro-people legislation, consistent with the legislative agenda of the President,” he said. See resigns, page 11
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