Weary and tired of the unsettled and uncertain living in the
hinterlands of a southern province, 19 New People’s Army (NPA) rebels decided
they had enough and came down from their mountain lairs and yielded to the
folds of the law and to settle down back to society’s mainstream, police report
said.
Reports from Agusan del Sur Police reaching the regional
headquarters here on Friday said that 19 NPA rebels gave up their armed
struggle against the government and personally surrendered to Hon. Dario E.
Otaza, municipal mayor of Loreto, Agusan del Sur and to the police and military
authorities in the area belonging to the municipal police station of Loreto and
the 26th Infantry Battalion, 4ID of the Philippine Army.
The surrenderees came in two batches, the police report
said. The first batch composed of 15 surrenderees yielded at 6:00 p.m. on
Wednesday, coming from Guerilla Front Committee -89 of the North Central
Mindanao Revolutionary Committee under a certain Tumbow Telocan, alias
“Watiwit” of Mandalikan, Kabanglasan, Bukidnon. The second batch composed of 4
NPAs came on Thursday at 6:00 a.m. from Guerilla Front -34 of the Southern
Mindanao Revolutionary Committee headed by a certain Commander Maximo Catarata
alias “Datu Makatindug” operating at Kasapa 2, La Paz in Agusan del Sur.
The surrenderees brought along with them assorted Caliber of
firearms and equipments which were properly turned over to the Loreto Municipal
Police. These consisted of : three Spring Field rifles with defaced Serial
Numbers; an improvised Caliber .22 Rifle with defaced Serial Number; 10 Caliber
.38 revolvers with defaced Serial Numbers; an improvised 5.56 pistol with
defaced Serial Number; 2 Caliber .38 with defaced serial Numbers and a Caliber
.22 revolver with defaced Serial Number.
After the proper documentation, the Office of the
Presidential Adviser on Peace Process (OPAPP) extended intervention and
livelihood program grants for the surrenderees, while their surrendered
firearms will be subjected for ballistic examination and records verification
by the crime laboratory.
Chief Supt. David Y. Ombao and the entire PRO 13 leadership
congratulated the rebel returnees, saying that they had made the right decision
in coming down from their mountain lairs and to leave the armed struggle in
order to settle to normal living and join their families and relatives back in
the society’s mainstream.
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