IMPASUG-ONG, Bukidnon – A former rebel of the
New People’s Army (NPA) received PHP117,000 cash and livelihood assistance from
the military and the local government here, a military officer said Tuesday.
Capt. Norman Tagros, spokesperson of the army’s 8th Infantry
Battalion, said that Jonathan B. Nacar, a.k.a “Totong,” received a check of
PHP52,200 from the 8IB.
Tagros said that the amount was a remuneration of the AK-47
assault rifle that Nacar turned over when he surrendered to the army’s 8IB in
Impasug-Ong, Bukidnon.
Nacar, 24, a Higa-onon tribe of Bukidnon, and a former
member of the Guerrilla Front 4B of the North Central Mindanao Regional
Committee, surrendered to the military in September 2014.
Lt. Col. Lennon Babilonia, commander of the army 8IB,
personally handed the check to Nacar during the formal turnover at the town
hall of Impasug-ong last Monday.
Aside from the said amount from the military, the Office of
the Presidential Adviser on Peace Process (OPAPP) also extended PHP50,000 cash
for livelihood assistance on top of the PHP15,000 cash assistance from the
Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) in Bukidnon.
During the turnover ceremony, Babilonia also announced the
promotion of two soldiers for gallantry in action during an encounter with the
armed communist NPA rebels in Bukidnon, which resulted in the recovery of three
AK-47, improvised explosive device, blasting caps, several rounds of live
ammunitions and subversive documents.
Tagros said that army Sgt. Nestor S. Sabaldana was promoted
to the rank of Staff Sergeant while army Private First Class Aberto A. Bugtay,
to Corporal.
http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?idn=2&sid=&nid=2&rid=782541
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