Government chief negotiator Silvestre Bello III vowed to release some 50-70 political prisoners before the international human rights day on December 10, as he extended his condolences to the family of Bernabe Ocasla, one of the 400 political prisoners who recently died of a heart attack.
President Rodrigo Duterte took the opportunity during the inauguration of the mega drug rehab facility in Nueva Ecija to lambast anew critics of his anti-drug war.
The City Council’s regular session was adjourned Tuesday morning after it failed to reach a quorum.
President Rodrigo Duterte is pushing through with his visit in Lanao del Sur province even after some members of his advance team were injured in an attack in Marawi City on Tuesday morning.
Seven members of the Presidential Security Group and two members of the 65th Infantry Battalion were hurt in an attack by still unidentified groups in Marawi City, Tuesday morning.