“They belonged to the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters-Kagui Karialan faction,” Cotabato City Mayor Mohammad Ali Matabalao said in a statement Friday.
During the Joint Regional Task Force-End Local Communist Armed Conflict (ELCAC)-11 meeting here, Duterte thanked the support of stakeholders in sustaining the “gains of peace” in the region.
In a statement Thursday, BTA Speaker Pangalian Balindong said members of the BTA have sworn allegiance to the Constitution, “however, the 1987 Constitution is not cast in stone and is open to amendment to adapt to the changing conditions of the time.”
Ang 53 kinatawan mula sa Mindanao ang manifesto, kasama ang tatlong kinatawan mula sa partylist, at isang miyembro ng Kamara mula sa Visayas, ay tumatanggi na sundin ang mga panawagan para sa Mindanao secession.
Senator Sherwin Gatchalian, whose family hails from the donor city, led the turnover of 12,800 sacks of rice to Agusan Del Sur, PHP4.75 million (3,800 sacks); Davao de Oro, PHP4.25 million (3,400 sacks); and Davao Oriental, PHP7 million (5,600 sacks of rice).
Las Nieves Mayor Karen Rosales received 310 sacks of rice and 350 food packs from the office of Agusan del Norte 1st District Rep. Jose Aquino III and the Tingog Party-list.
On Thursday, Davao City’s 3rd District Councilor Myrna Dalodo-Ortiz said apart from the calamity fund, the council also approved PHP19 million in assistance to other local government units in the form of welfare goods, and PHP6.1 million in financial assistance to other provinces.