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Volume IX, No. 228
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Monday, March 2, 2020
151 NPA-free barangays to receive socio-economic aid By MARK FRANCISCO Correspondent
ONE HUNDRED fifty-one barangays from Northern Mindanao and Caraga which were declared free from New People’s Army (NPA) presence and influence in 2019 will receive socio-economic assistance from the national government this year. This was the gist of the report made by 4th Infantry Division commander Maj. Gen. Franco Nemesio Gacal during a security briefing called for by Oro Chamber for its members. Gacal said that the government’s whole of nation approach through the Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (ELCAC) will bring economic and livelihood opportunities See AID, page 11
4th Infantry Division commander Maj. Gen. Franco Nemesio Gacal speaks during a security briefing organized by Oro Chamber.
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CdeO complies with DILG directive banning 67 Manobo families in pedicabs and tricycles in national highways Surigao flee homes anew CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY - In compliance with the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) order, banning pedicabs and tricycles plying in National Highways, the City Government thru the Roads and Traffic Administration (RTA) apprehended over a hundred vehicles from February 24-26. Apprehensions were made by RTA, thru the leadership of Antonio Resma of
the Regulatory and Complaint Board, in Barangays Tablon, Gusa and Puerto. Resma told reporters the apprehensions are only part of the initial implementations of DILG memo while they are still studying for the full implementation of the DILG Manila memorandum circular. As such, those who were apprehended were only issued citations tickets and warned not to ply in the See COMPLIES, page 11
By CHRIS V. PANGANIBAN Contributing Editor
SAN FRANCISCO, Agusan del Sur -- Some 67 Manobo lumad families in the neighboring hinterland Sitios in Surigao del Sur fled their homes fearing hostilities between Army soldiers and New Peoples Army rebels might escalate a week after a grenade was lobbed near a house wounding three civilians. The Malahutayong Paki-
gbisog Alang sa Sumusunod (Persevering Struggle for the Next Generation) or Mapasu said Army soldiers fired upon a house in Sitio Emerald on February 21 where several people were watching television wounding three victims including a five-year old girl and damaging the roof of the house. But the Army’s 3rd Special Forces Battalion, in a See FLEE, page 11