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2 brothers of vice mayor, 5 others nabbed in drug raid By GERRY LEE GORIT Correspondent
Coco farmers in Pablo-hit areas to get financial aid
THE Department of Budget and Management (DBM) released P155.8 million to the Philippine Coconut Authority (PCA) for the rehabilitation of slight-tomoderately damaged coconut trees in the provinces of Compostela Valley and Davao Oriental. Charged against the 2013 Supplemental Appropriations (RA 10634), the fund shall be used for projects under the Department of Agriculture’s (DA) livelihood cluster addressing crop production. Of the P155.8-million release, P115.2 million shall be used for coconut replanting while P40.6 million shall be used for coconut fertilization. “Post-Typhoon Pablo rehabilitation is still See farmers, page A5
‘Shoot back’
DAVAO City--Mayor Rodrigo R. Duterte does not want a repeat of the mauling incident of an armed police officer as he asked the police to shoot back when physically overpowered. “It’s self-defense,” he said. “When you are ganged up by four or more persons, even two or three, physically overpowered ka, you are in danger of losing your life, when your life is in danger, I am lecturing to you, kung may baril ka, barilin mo na lahat,” Duterte told a press conference over the weekend. Duterte’s statement came following the mauling of PO2 Ritchi Paul Calago Lozano of the San Pedro Police Precinct by four men in front of the Ateneo de Davao University Grade School gate in Matina on October 31. Lozano was seen on a CCTV camera being
See shoot, page A5
CAGAYAN de Oro City-Two younger brothers of the vice mayor of Balingasag, Misamis Oriental, and five of their companions were arrested by authorities on Sunday during a raid. See FULL STORY, page A5
Hataman to military: go after Abu
FEEDING PROGRAM. The Cagayan de Oro City Water District conducted a feeding program for 200 children
in the Barangay Macabalan Multi-purpose hall last November 03, 2014. This is in line with the agency’s Serbisyo sa Barangay Program where it conducts various activities with its partner-barangays. The children were also taught proper handwashing, ways on how to conserve water and how to keep their bodies clean. The Macabalan Barangay Nutrition Scholars assisted COWD in this endeavor by providing the children with nutritious food. Photo supplied
Slow govt response in Yolanda-affected areas glaring: group
Moro Islamic Liberation Front chair Al Haj Murad Ebrahim (right) receives a copy of the Bangsamoro Development Plan from Bangsamoro Development (BDA) chair Dr. Saffrullah M. Dipatuan during a ceremony at Camp Darapanan, Sultan Kudarat, Maguindanao on November 2, 2014. MindaNews photo by Toto Lozano
ALMOST a year after Typhoon Yolanda hit the country, government efforts for the recovery of the affected areas are moving very slowly, According to research group IBON Foundation. It said the slow recovery efforts are on top of earlier criticisms of poor emergency response and relief work last year. See glaring, page A5
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Millions of victims who were already in very poor and vulnerable conditions even before the Typhoon Yolanda continue to endure barely survival conditions.’ ibon.org
Military disowns anticommunist tribal warriors By CHRIS V. PANGANIBAN Regional Editor-Caraga
LIANGA, Surigao del Sur--The Philippine Army has disowned a group of anticommunist tribal warriors who have been blamed for the massive displacement of Manobo communities here. In a peace dialogue called by Gov. Johnny Pimentel on Thursday, military officials said the Bagani forces, headed by Datu Calpet Egua, had
no authority to conduct operations against New People’s Army (NPA) rebels and had not been given orders to recruit from among the villagers. Egua’s armed group “was not part of paramilitary groups allowed to fight the rebels,” said Col. Gregory Cayetano, head of the Army’s 401st Brigade. 2,000 displaced At least 2,000 Manobo people from the hinterland village of Diatagon here have fled their homes for fear
of their lives after the October 24 killing of Henry Alameda, an official of the militant Malahutayong Pakigbisog alang sa Sumusunod (Sustained Campaign for the Next Generation or Mapasu), allegedly by soldiers and Bagani forces. Bertoldo Garay, Mapasu council member, said the killers could have targeted Alameda because he had opposed Egua’s attempts to enlist villagers to the Bagani. See warriors, page A7
COTABATO City--Governor Mujiv Hataman of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) has recommended an all-out military offensive against the Abu Sayyaf Group that ambushed and killed six government soldiers, including a young lieutenant, in a remote village in Sumisip, Basilan which the governor was visiting Sunday. Hataman, who hails from Basilan, condemned “this cowardly act of the Abu Sayyaf.” “I am recommending an all-out offensive against these terrorist groups,” he said. He said he might have been caught in the ambush if he had gone to Sumisip. “I’m here in Basilan today for a project visit, we were about to go next to Sumisip town to check on the completion of the circumferential road when we were informed while travelling from Isabela town that an ambush took place,” he said. It takes about two hours to reach Sumisip from Isabela. Hataman and the Army’s 104th Brigade commander Col. Rolando Bautista, proceeded to the ambush site. “It was devastating. The soldiers had almost nowhere to run. The assailants blocked every escape route, the Governor said. Troops from the Army’s 64th Infantry Battalion were deployed to secure a Saudifunded project in Barangay Libug, Sumisip. They were conducting security patrol in Sitio Mompol, in the See military, page A7
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