MINDANAO DAILY YOUR MINDANAO-WIDE NEWSPAPER
Volume VII, No. 171 Website: www.mindanaodailynews.com
MRRD-NECC to host summit on federalism By Sony V. Sudaria and Tony Pagaran Correspondents
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ILIGAN City--The Mayor Rodrigo Roa Duterte National Executive Coordinating Committee (MRRDNECC) will be hosting a one-day Summit of Mindanao Federalism See summit, page 11
‘We say yes to family, no to Sogie bill’ By Bishop Gene Udang President, Mindanao Evangelical Leaders Council ( MELC)
In the House of Representatives and in the Philippine Senate, a very important legislation was crafted and deliberated, it is called HB 6982 and SB 935. A bill that we believe will become one of the determinants of the direction and future of this nation, and affects the value system of the succeeding generations. This is entitled the SOGIE BILL or Sexual Orientation, or Gender Identity or Expressions Bill. It was primarily crafted to ensure protection and anti-discrimination among the LGBTQ community in the land. But by championing the cause of the LGBTQ community, especially for them not to be discriminated, our well-intentioned lawmakers were blindsided and instead discriminates the majority of the Filipino people. See family, page 11
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Reds call off release of cops By Roel Catoto MindaNews
SURIGAO City--Communist rebels called off the scheduled release of the two police officers they abducted in Placer town in Surigao del Norte early last month, citing the military’s refusal to suspend operations to facilitate the captives’ safe return to their loved ones.
Ka Maria Malaya, spokesperson of the National Democratic Front in Northeastern Mindanao (NDF-NEMR), said in an emailed statement that PO2 Jhon Paul M. Doverte and PO2 Alfredo L. Degamon were supposed to be released on December 5 as part of the NDF’s gesture of peace and in response to the ardent request of their families to
be reunited with them this Christmas. New People’s Army (NPA) guerrillas wearing vests and uniforms of the police’s Criminal Investigation and Detection Group snatched Doverte and Degamon on Nov. 13 at a police outpost in Barangay Bad-as, Placer town. Malaya said they decided to cancel the scheduled re-
lease of the two policemen after the military refused to heed the Third Party Facilitator’s call for them to stand down. “All units of military and police force should stand down for six days in six towns of the province to pave way for the safe release but the military failed to do so as they See call, page 11