ABU SAYYAF SURRENDERERS. Brig. Gen. Froilan Quidilla, Police Regional Office 9 (Zamboanga Peninsula) director (2nd from left), formally welcomes five Abu Sayyaf surrenderers during a ceremony held at Camp Col. Romeo Abendan on Thursday (July 18, 2019). The surrenderers also yielded high-powered firearms. (Photo courtesy: PRO-9 Public Information Office)
ZAMBOANGA CITY -- Five members of the Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) have surrendered and turned over high-powered firearms to government authorities here, police officials said Friday.
Brig. Gen. Froilan Quidilla, Police Regional Office 9 (Zamboanga Peninsula) director, said the five surrenderers were from Jolo and Patikul, Sulu; and Tipo-Tipo, Basilan.
Quidilla said the surrenderers yielded high-powered firearms, including four M-16 Armalite rifles, two of which had attached M-203 grenade launchers.
He said the surrender of the five ASG bandits was realized through the joint efforts of Lt. Col. Parson Asadil, the Zamboanga del Sur Provincial Mobile Force Company commander, and intelligence personnel of the Army’s 1st Infantry Division.
Maj. Helen Galvez, PRO-9 information officer, said the five surrenderers were formally welcomed by police and miitary officials in a ceremony held Thursday at Camp Col. Romeo Abendan that houses the PRO-9 headquarters in Barangay Mercedes, this city.
Col. Jose Randolf Cino Cruz, deputy commander of the Army’s 1st Infantry Division, and Col. Leonel Nicolas, Task Force Zamboanga commander, witnessed the ceremony.
Quidilla said the five ASG surrenderers will be placed under the government rehabilitation program “to ensure that they will not go back to their old ways.”
Meanwhile, Quidilla called on the remaining ASG bandits to surrender and to avail of the government’s program to live a new life.
https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1075502
ZAMBOANGA CITY -- Five members of the Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) have surrendered and turned over high-powered firearms to government authorities here, police officials said Friday.
Brig. Gen. Froilan Quidilla, Police Regional Office 9 (Zamboanga Peninsula) director, said the five surrenderers were from Jolo and Patikul, Sulu; and Tipo-Tipo, Basilan.
Quidilla said the surrenderers yielded high-powered firearms, including four M-16 Armalite rifles, two of which had attached M-203 grenade launchers.
He said the surrender of the five ASG bandits was realized through the joint efforts of Lt. Col. Parson Asadil, the Zamboanga del Sur Provincial Mobile Force Company commander, and intelligence personnel of the Army’s 1st Infantry Division.
Maj. Helen Galvez, PRO-9 information officer, said the five surrenderers were formally welcomed by police and miitary officials in a ceremony held Thursday at Camp Col. Romeo Abendan that houses the PRO-9 headquarters in Barangay Mercedes, this city.
Col. Jose Randolf Cino Cruz, deputy commander of the Army’s 1st Infantry Division, and Col. Leonel Nicolas, Task Force Zamboanga commander, witnessed the ceremony.
Quidilla said the five ASG surrenderers will be placed under the government rehabilitation program “to ensure that they will not go back to their old ways.”
Meanwhile, Quidilla called on the remaining ASG bandits to surrender and to avail of the government’s program to live a new life.
https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1075502
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