MINDANAO DAILY TRUTH | JUSTICE | PROGRESS
Volume XI, No. 087
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Saturday, December 4, 2021
3 suspects in Doc’s slay in Cagayan de Oro fall By CRIS DIAZ Executive Editor
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY: Three suspects, one of them confessed as the alleged trigger man, in the shooting to death of the director of a hospital here fall Friday morning in Balingoan, a coastal town of Misamis Oriental, 89 kilometers east of here. Lt. Valiente Macarayo, the town police chief of Balingoan, identified the suspects as Jomar Adlaw 30, Maramag, Marjun Cabog, 39, of Don Carlos, Joel Nacua, 37, farmer, of Lingayon, Valencia City, all of the province of Bukidnon. Macarayo said that the fourth suspect identified as Rene Dortosa of Balingoan, allegedly a former military man, is now the subject of police manhunt. According to Macarayo, Dortosa was the alleged middleman who hired the three suspects in consideration of P 150,000. He said that the suspects Police investigators from SOCO take a look at the vehicle owned by Dr. Raul Andutan, who was shot dead in Cagayan See FALL, page 19
de Oro Thursday Dec 2. 2021.
KAUSWAGAN, Lanao del Norte -- This once wartorn municipality, usual hot spot in the war between government soldiers and Moro rebels since the 1970s, switched on its colorful Christmas display Wednesday evening, giving joy and
hope to its Christian and Muslim residents as hundreds came to the municipal hall compound to witness the opening night after being locked down in their homes for almost two years because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The municipal hall façade was covered with
Sara calls for unity after Go’s presidential race withdrawal
government compound, tanks and other armored vehicles were stationed at the public plaza fronting the municipal hall. The attack prompted former President Joseph Estrada to declare an “all-out war” against the MILF, a war that spread in many parts of Mindanao and lasted several months.
By MARK FRANCISCO
But on Wednesday evening, excited residents, showing their vaccine cards, came to the municipal government compound to see fireworks, a giant Christmas tree and globe, and colorful lights radiating around the flagpole. Voices of local singers filled the air. See LIGHTS, page 19
See BATS, page 19
photo by gerry lee gorit
multi-colored Christmas lights. Atop are the words “Sikad Pa Kauswagan” – short for Sustainable Integrated Kauswagan Development and Peace Agenda. In March 2000, shortly after the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) attacked the town and occupied its municipal
Macasandig dad bats for overhaul of Oro water system A kagawad of barangay Macasandig, this city who is also running for councilor in its second legislative district is batting a pivot for Cagayan de Oro’s water system to surface water. “In other metropolitan areas in the country, they are doing it already. As of today, only 40 percent of the water system here is sourced out of surface water,” Macasandig barangay kagawad Nixon Baban said. Baban is referring to the 120 million liters of water a day sourced out of Bubunawan river in Bukidnon by the Cagayan de Oro Water District (COWD) which consists of 60 percent of the city’s water supply. The other half comes from the 27 active production wells of the government-operated utility. “We were the first city water district in the country when COWD was created under law to operate in 1972. Since then, we have not modernized our production wells,” Baban, a self-proclaimed environmentalist, said. As a Kagay-anon, Baban has been consistent in his local environmental advocacies through the years
War-torn Lanao Norte town lights up Christmas display By RICHEL V. UMEL MindaNews
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By CHE PALICTE
DAVAO CITY – Vice presidential aspirant Mayor Sara Z. Duterte on Thursday called for unity anew following the withdrawal of Senator Christopher Lawrence “Bong” Go from the presidential race in next year’s elections. “Now that Sen. Bong Go has declared his withdrawal from the presidential race and to quote him, ‘for the sake of unity among our supporters and leaders,’ we will continue in our unity with the BBM-SARA Uniteam so that we can succeed in our
Davao City Mayor Sara Z. Duterte (PNA
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aspiration for the country,” from the 2022 presidential Archbishop emeritus Antonio Ledesma, SJ, talks to the media during the Meet The Duterte said in a statement. bid during the 158th birth Press held every Wednesday by the COPC Cagayan de Oro, on Dec. 1, 2021. Hosting On Tuesday, Go an- anniversary celebration of is COPC Pres. Dr. Manny Jaudian (right) and COPC Director Jao Gumapac. photo by nounced his withdrawal See CALLS, page 19 gerry lee gorit