MILF: Comdr. Bravo denies having his own gov’t, claims to support Duterte’s war on drugs

Posted to the Moro Islamic Liberation Front Website (Dec 20): Comdr. Bravo denies having his own gov’t, claims to support Duterte’s war on drugs



Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) leader Abdullah Macapaar, popularly known as “Commander Bravo” has denied establishing his own “government” in Mindanao and claimed that he was actually helping the Duterte administration in its war against illegal drugs, a Manila Bulletin online report said on December 19.

Comdr. Bravo told  Presidential Adviser on Overseas Filipino Workers and Muslim Concerns Secretary Abdullah “Dabs” Mama-o when they met last Dec. 10 in his mountain hideout in Lanao del Sur.

Bravo clarified to Mama-o that his operations in the MILF Northwestern Mindanao Front (NWMF), were, in fact, in support of the President’s war on drugs.

President Rodrigo Duterte have recently ordered  Mama-o 20 days to get rid of Bravo whose group is allegedly getting payoffs from drug dealers and distributors from some parts of the country including Metro Manila and the Visayas Island .

“Drug syndicates were the ones that cooked up wrong information that reached the President to make it appear I was setting up a separate government”, Bravo said.

He also told Sec. Mama-o that his command will continue complementing the president’s drive against the scourge of drugs.

He pointed out that he abides by the on-going peace process between the government and the MILF.

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