MILF anti-drug team searches for drug personalities in Maguindanao towns

From the Philippine News Agency (Sep 14): MILF anti-drug team searches for drug personalities in Maguindanao towns

A team of Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) men is now out in towns where local executives have been named by President Rodrigo Duterte as narcopoliticians.

Von Al Haq, speaking for the MILF that forged a peace deal with Manila, said the MILF has long been campaigning against illegal drugs "because it is haram (forbidden) in Islam."

Al Haq said the anti-drug team of the MILF is using diplomatic approach by first convincing parents or immediate relatives of drug personalities to submit themselves for religious reorientation so they return to Allah and do away with illegal drugs.

He identified the towns where drug personalities exist and do nefarious activities as Datu Saudi Ampatuan, Talitay, Datu Montawal, Ampatuan and three other towns.

The mayors and vice mayors of the towns of Datu Saudi, Talitay, Ampatuan and Datu Montawal were publicly named by President Duterte as narco-politicians.

"If the drug personality will resist, they will be dealt with accordingly," Al Haq said.

Since 2014, the MILF had been posting tarpauline and sinages along the national highway in Maguindanao declaring war against illegal drugs.

So far, more than 40 self-proclaimed drug personalities are now in Camp Darapanan, the bailiwick of the MILF in Sultan Kudarat, Maguindanao, undergoing religious reorientation.

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