The top brasses of the military and police in Northern Mindanao on Tuesday bewailed reports about
imminent terrorist threat in the region.
Pol. Chief Supt. Agrimero Cruz, regional director of the
Philippine National Police (PNP) here, downplayed the capabilities of the
Philippine-based extremist in sowing terror beyond the areas they presumed to
be under their control.
Maj. Gen. Oscar Lactao, commander of the army’s 4th Infantry
Division at Camp Evangelista
here, said that the terror attacks in France
and Nigeria that have killed
more than 2,000 persons is unlikely to take place in Northern
Mindanao .
The military and police officials said that the
Philippine-based terror groups are simply proclaiming allegiance to either the
Islamic State or Al Qaeda as part of the propaganda.
“In reality, the local terrorists cannot penetrate our well
secured borders in the region,” Cruz said.Both the police and the military,
however, urged the public to observe a heightened vigilance.
“The cooperation of the citizenry is highly important for us
police officers in deterring crime. That’s why we value and take action on all
the reports coming from the public,” Cruz said.
Lactao said that the military is also pursuing a concerted
effort among national government agencies to install projects, especially in
heavily infested villages by the communist New People’s Army (NPA).
He said that the military is adopting “Bayanihan” as an
effective strategy to win the hearts and minds of the people into supporting
all government programs intended to alleviate the lives of the marginal sectors
in the region.“Bayanihan addresses the root cause of the insurgency. We can do
that by extending the much needed government projects in the hinterlands.
It is a shared responsibility among all the stakeholders in
society, including the residents of these villages. We certainly cannot afford
to lose to communist insurgency,” Lactao said.
http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?idn=2&sid=&nid=2&rid=727102
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