MINDANAO DAILY TRUTH | JUSTICE | PROGRESS
Volume XI, No. 061
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Tuesday, October 5, 2021
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P 300,000 bounty for info on suspects in grenade throwing By CRIS DIAZ Executive Editor
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY: The family of Deputy Speaker Rufus Rodriguez on Saturday raised a P 300,000 reward to anyone who could identify the suspects in the grenade throwing at their residence in Nazareth, Cagayan de Oro City Friday morning. Col. Aaron Mandea, the city’s police chief, said that the police investigators have retrieved the closed circuit television cameras spread across the major streets in Nazareth, which provided a concrete outline of the suspects.
He said that the CCTV clearly recorded the act when the hooded suspect lobbed the grenade about 1:12 a.m. Friday at the See BOUNTY, page 11
VALIANCE. Second Lt. Bryan Paul Calilung (left) receives a Wounded Personnel Medal from Brig. Gen. Jose Maria Cuerpo II, the 103rd Infantry Brigade commander, at the Amai Pakpak Medical Center in Marawi City, Lanao del Sur on Oct. 3, 2021. Two other soldiers were also feted for their heroism after being injured in a September 28 blast in Barangay Tangcal in Buadiposo-Buntong, Lanao del Sur. (Photo courtesy of 55IB)
Marawi City Mayor Majul Gandamra shows a copy of his certificate of candidacy after filing it at the City COMELEC Office on Friday, October 1. Also in photo is Lanao del Sur Provincial Election Supervisor Atty. Allan Kadon. (Divina M. Suson)
Marawi siege spox seeks congress seat By DIVINA M. SUSON
MARAWI CITY -- Former Lanao del Sur provincial spokesperson of the Marawi siege filed on Friday, October 1, his certificate of candidacy (CoC) to the provincial Commission on Elections (COMELEC) as congressional candidate for the first district of Lanao del Sur in the 2022 national and local elections.
Ziaur-Rahman “Zia” Alonto Adiong, an incumbent member of the Bangsamoro parliament, filed his CoC along with his elder brother, incumbent Gov. Mamintal Adiong, Jr., who is seeking reelection and Mamintal’s son Mohammad Khalid, who is also seeking reelection as vice governor. See SEEKS, page 11
3 soldiers injured in Lanao Sur NGCP tower blast feted By NEF LUCZON
C A G AYA N D E O R O CITY – Three soldiers of the 55th Infantry Battalion (55IB) have been awarded the Wounded Personnel Medal for their heroism as they secured National
Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) while conducting inspection in Buadiposo-Buntong, Lanao del Sur last week. Brig. Gen. Jose Maria Cuerpo II, 103rd Infantry Brigade commander, be-
stowed Sunday the medals to 2Lt. Bryan Paul Calilung, Pfc. Aries Rico, and Pvt. Benjack de Guzman at the Amai Pakpak Medical Center (APMC) in Marawi City. The three were part of the eight-man security
Piñol said he is aiming to run as Senator in the upcoming national and local elections in 2021. Piñol also announced on his social media that he already tendered his official resignation to President Rodrigo Duterte effective October 5. He thanked the president for the great op-
portunity of serving the country under his administration. “Today, I have reached a decision to vie for a seat in the Philippine Senate to pursue my advocacy to help the Filipino farmers and fishermen become more productive while at the same
team who were wounded from a grenade blast in one of NGCP’s tower facilities in Barangay Tangcal in Buadiposo-Buntong town on September 28. Two NGCP personnel were also See INJURED, page 11
Piñol resigns MinDA chairmanship By SONY SUDARIA and OSCAR LEDESMA MDNN News Bureau
COTABATO CITY – Emmanuel Piñol, has resigned from his chairmanship of the Mindanao Development Authority (MinDA), according to a report obtained by MDNN yesterday. In his Facebook account,
See RESIGNS, page 11