3 NPA rebs killed in clash with Army troopers
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Volume VIII, No. 209
Jolo blast an isolated case: AFP
THE recent bombing in Jolo, Sulu which claimed the lives of at least 20 people and wounded 112 others, is a just an isolated incident, a military official said Tuesday. “It was an isolated case as there was apparently an unconfirmed information as revealed by a priest in Jolo in a media interview that there is a bombing threat against the Church,” Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) public affairs office chief Col. Noel Detoyato told the Philippine News Agency when asked if Sunday’s blast is an isolated one or just the beginning of a wave of attacks in the area. He also added that the Mount Carmel Cathedral has already a long list of bombing incidents in the past. “It is in this light that a community effort has to be tapped as security against terrorism is a complex activity,” Detoyato added. Earlier, the AFP public affairs office chief said the military will take “extra precautionary measures” to secure the second Bangsamoro Organic Law (BOL) plebiscite on February 6
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Cocpo mulls banning of backpacks in churches
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By MARK FRANCISCO Correspondent
THE Cagayan de Oro City Police Office (Cocpo) is urging the churchgoing public not to bring backpacks and large bags when going to places of worship. In the aftermath of the Mount Carmel cathedral bombing in Jolo last Sunday, Cocpo director Senior Supt. Nelson Aganon reported yesterday that he has met with Archdiocese of Cagayan de Oro leaders last Monday and they all agreed with his proposal. Aganon also suggested before the group of clerics during their meeting that the archdiocese would erect baggage counters in selected large parish churches in the city for worshippers to deposit their baggages and get them after services are over. He went on saying that police officers would be deployed to large churches to man the baggage counters and frisk incoming worshipPresident Rodrigo Duterte raises the right hand of Pompee La Viña as an endorsement pers. of La Viña’s mayoral candidacy in the midterm election in May this year. Photo RTVM Malacañang
See MULLS, page 11
Moreno mocks Duterte’s endorsement of Pompee CAGAYAN de Oro City Mayor Oscar Moreno ridiculed President Rodrigo Duterte’s endorsement of Pompee La Viña as a “mockery.” Moreno said that the endorsement was insignificant since the local voters would not support La Viña’s candidacy even with Duterte’s Former Agusan del Sur congressman Rodolfo Ömpong”Plaza endorsement. showing the popular Duterte fist sign. Photo by Chris V. Mayoral candidate La Panganiban Viña, is the standard bearer
of the coalition Centrist Democratic Party (CDP) and the Padayon Pilipino political party in the midterm election in May this year. “How could the endorsement of Pompee be appealing to the public when it was done near the mall’s public toilet?” Moreno told reporters. Duterte raised Pompee’s right hand as a way of en-
dorsing the latter’s mayoral candidacy during the nationwide reunion of the Roa Clan in the sprawling Atrium convention hall at the Limketkai Commercial Center in Cagayan De Oro City last week. In reacting to Moreno’s comments, La Viña said that Moreno showed his “disrespect” to President Duterte. The local voters also
commented that Moreno is now bothered and restless. Former village Chief Willam Guialani said that he was taken aback by Moreno’s comments. “Moreno is now uneasy knowing that Pompee’s popularity has dramatically shoots up following Duterte’s endorsement,” Guialani said. On January 16, 2019,
drawn his comeback bid to Agusan del Sur’s first BAYUGAN City--Con- legislative district in the gressional bet Rodolfo May 13 elections citing his “Ömpong”Plaza has with- family’s decision for him to
Democrito “Boyet” Plaza III and provincial board member Alfelito Bacug and prevented what could have been a bitter rivalry
in the congress between the two siblings, scions of the wealthy and influential Plaza family who has been holding reins of power in
the province for more than half a century. “My family and I have reflected on how I can
See MOCKS, page 11
Plaza sibling withdraws from congressional race in Agusan By CHRIS V. PANGANIBAN Contributing Editor
just continue to stay in the private sector. His withdrawal left only a two-cornered fight between his older brother
See WITHDRAWS, page 11
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