Bayan Muna Rep. Carlos Zarate urged the government to be transparent and reveal the real cause of the Mindanao-wide Easter Sunday outage.
Mayor Rodrigo Duterte expects the new representative for the indigenous people in the city to talk with the New People’s Army whose members in the countrysides are mostly IPs.
The Moro Islamic Liberation Front is willing to accept amendments to the proposed Bangsamoro Basic Law but only as far as “for improvement and enhancement only.”
Iqbal denied Thursday that there were irregularities in the implementation of Malacanang’s socio-economic initiative for Moro communities dubbed as “Sajahatra Bangsamoro Program.”
The breakaway Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighter said there is no truth to the military’s claim that Abdulayman Pagao who was arrested in Cotabato City last Monday evening was their financier.
“We are not killers.”
The military claimed that a leader of the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighter was reportedly killed during Sunday’s clash in Maguindanao.
Mayor Rodrigo Duterte said he wants a “summary hearing” on cops who initially tested positive on illegal drug use so that he can kick him out of the Philippine National Police sooner.
A fresh clash erupted between the Armed Forces of the Philippines and Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters in Maguindanao, wounding 10 and claiming the lives of 5 others as the nation observed Palm Sunday, marking the beginning of the Holy Week.
A local farmer’s organization claimed that a mining company colluded with the Army to harass and threaten them into accepting it to operate in their area.
