MINDANAO DAILY TRUTH | JUSTICE | PROGRESS
Volume XI, No. 054
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“We are not employing trolls”- PCOO • backs penalizing fake news perpetrators
MANILA - The Presidential Communications Operations Office (PCOO) on Thursday told legislators that they do not employ “trolls” to churn out fake news to the public, contrary to allegations made by critics. “The PCOO and the Duterte administration have no policy to spread fake news and false information to the public through employing social media trolls and fake accounts or
through any other means,” Secretary Andanar said during the Senate finance subcommittee hearing on the PCOO’s proposed 2022 budget. “We will never use it as a tool to discredit our critics in order to consolidate power, as our critics have gravely alleged us of doing without any evidence,” he added. The Commission on Audit (COA) said that the PCOO spent over P70.6
million for the salaries of contractual hires, to which the agency responded that these hires were needed in order to intensify information dissemination amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The PCOO submitted on June 7, 2021 the justification for the hiring of 375 Contract of Service (COS) personnel for the year 2020. Secretary Andanar said that the majority of these COS personnel are See TROLLS, page 11
‘RIDO’ eyed in Killing of 2 MSU Students in main campus By ASANGAN T. MADALE Contributor
MARAWI CITY Police are eyeing ‘rido’ or clan feud as the motive behind the killing of two (2) students in the main campus last Tuesday night September 14 by the suspects riding -in tandem gunmen. In a text message provided to Mindanao Daily News by Marawi Chief Lieutenant Colonel Nelson Madiwo said we are still conducting follow up investigation, one possible cause of the killings is rido or personal grudge in relation to Maranaw culture.
(JUSTICE FOR THE 2 MSU STUDENTS KILLED)(Back in camera red jacket is MSU System President Habib W. Macaayong hold dialogue with the student in boys dormitory brief them the initial investigation of the 2 MSU students killings by two riding in-tandem last September 14, 6pm in commercial centers main campus. (Contributed photo)
Initial investigations also revealed that the killings of these two MSU students it might had been triggered because of a video of a certian marana woman posted in social media by the two victims, Madiwo stress. Earlier police identified the victims as physical education student Hamza Rauf, and civil engineering student Zinal Omar both third year college student. That night when MSU System President Habib Macaayong and Executive Vice President Dr. Rasid Paca were informed of the See RIDO, page 11
Sara urged Filipinos to strongly support his father’s VP bid By SONY SUDARIA and OSCAR LEDESMA MDNN News Bureau
DAVAO CITY - The presidential daughter is urging the Filipino to continue supporting his father, especially in his bid for the vice presidency. Mayor Sara Duterte said he is not running for president, and instead she will campaign for his father’s sure win in the upcoming Davao City Mayor Sara Z. elections in the country. See SUPPORT, page 11
PAZAMBATAZUL PEACE DEVELOPMENT INC. SUPPORTS BARMM EXTENTION
Mayor Abduhasan Ismael- Sali LMP Tawi-tawi/ LANGUYAN LCE Deputy Minister Benjamin LoongMinistry of Interior and Local Government BARMM /former Sulu Governor Hasbi D Matba former Languyan Mayor Mishubbin S Tupay former Basilan Board member Basilan Province Major Juaini J Kamlani (PNP) ret Col Bayman Usman (PA, ret) Major Madison Lutian (PA,ret) Major Sheik Sali Abdulmajid (PA,ret) Hj William Basaluddin. Hj Noe Ahajan former board member Sulu 1st district Arch Epich Hassan Hj Abidin J Nuruddin Exec Asst IV, office Languyan Mayor Tawi-tawi Photo by: Shammah Sunga Mindanao Daily News BARMM
Duterte (PNA
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More Covid-19 cases traced in urban poor areas, ‘gated’ communities By MDNN CDO News Bureau
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY - A top-ranking official of the City Health Office, Dr Teodorico Yu said yesterday that “gated” communities and urban poor areas are now the targets of coronavirus disease 2019 attacks. Dr Teodorico Yu, CHO’s Emergency Operations Center in-charge, said in a press briefing that the war against the deadly viruses is now transferred in the households. Yu said the unseen enemy does not choose whether you are poor or rich. “That’s why we keep on See CASES, page 11