From ABS-CBN (Feb 27): Military has no info on arms shipment announced by Duterte
The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) on Tuesday it had no information yet on the expected arrival of a shipment of firearms that President Rodrigo Duterte earlier announced.
"Wala pa kaming information regarding this matter, wala pa kaming information regarding [this]. But as soon as we have the information, we will send it to you. We have to go thru the details of these things before we can make a statement regarding this matter" said Brig. Gen. Bienvenido Datuin, Commanding General of the AFP Civil Relations Service.
On Monday, Duterte said the Philippines would receive 5,000 firearms from a “friendly country” in the next few days, without identifying the country where the firearms would be coming from.
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Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana also refused to divulge details of the shipment.
The government earlier received 5,000 AK-74M Kalashnikov assault rifles, one-million rounds of ammunition, 20 army trucks, and 5,000 steel helmets from Russia.
The Philippines has also received P370 million worth of arms and ammunition from China.
http://news.abs-cbn.com/news/02/27/18/military-has-no-info-on-arms-shipment-announced-by-duterte
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