Teenager recruit leaves NPA in Zamboanga del Sur - police

From InterAksyon (Nov 1): Teenager recruit leaves NPA in Zamboanga del Sur - police

A 17-year-old teenager who was recruited into the New People’s Army (NPA) and who went through a four-month military training has decided to go home without permission from his comrades and sought help from relatives to surrender to authorities in Barangay Dawa, Josefina, Zamboanga del Sur.

Chief inspector Ariel Huesca, spokesman of the Police Regional Office 9 (PRO9), said Jhomer Verano alias Jack/Jhomer “voluntarily surrendered” Thursday to the joint team of military and police after “a tedious negotiation.”

He said Verano told authorities he was recruited as member of Squad Dos, Secom Kara of the NPA’s Western Mindanao Regional Party Committee (WMRPC) under the leadership of Romanito Sumasay alias Mando.

The surrenderee turned over a caliber 38 revolver with defaced serial number and loaded with three rounds of ammunition.

“Tactical investigation conducted on the subject revealed that he underwent four months training in the mountains and was issued an AK47 rifle with four magazines and three hundred rounds of ammunition and a revolver caliber 38,” the police report said.

The surrenderee further revealed that his team is composed of 70 members, armed with assorted firearms and has a base at Barangay Dalapan, Guipos, Zamboanga del Sur, Huesca said.

The police official said the NPA unit’s area of operations covered the whole 2nd District of Zamboanga del Sur.

“After four months in the mountains, Verano felt lonely and homesick, and hence decided to go down from the mountains and sought shelter at his grandmother’s house…He left behind at the tent his issued AK47 rifle,” Huesca said.

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