(UPDATED) 'I would like to give importance to our soldiers, my soldiers, my police after their deaths,' says President Rodrigo Duterte
Malacañang on Sunday evening, August 30, announced that President Rodrigo Duterte visited Jolo, Sulu, a few days after twin blasts rocked the provincial capital.
“This is to confirm that PRRD visited Jolo, condoled with some of the victims of the latest blast, and conferred with the mayor (Kerkhar Tan),” Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque said in a statement.
The President would be back in Manila on Sunday evening, he added.
In a video message during an online pro-Duterte concert on Sunday afternoon, Duterte said he was about to head to Jolo to visit the blast site and pay his respects to those killed in the explosions.
"I’m going to Jolo, diretso ako ngayon sa Jolo, doon sa blast site. Mabigyan ko lang 'yung mga sundalo natin, mga sundalo ko, mga pulis ko ng importansya sa kanilang kamatayan," said the President. (I'm going to Jolo. I'm now going straight to Jolo, to the blast site. I would like to give importance to our soldiers, my soldiers, my police after their deaths.)
"I'll go there to fulfill the duty of a commander in chief," he added. "Magti-take off po kami, tamang tama, eh kaso lang sa ere walang ano, hindi 'nyo ako mapanood." (We'll be taking off, and the timing is perfect. You won't be able to watch me up in the air.)
The latest visit to Jolo is Duterte’s second in nearly two months. In July, he went and met with troops following the shooting of Army intelligence officers by police.
Two suicide bombings hit Jolo on Monday, August 24, killing 14 people: 7 soldiers, 6 civilians, and one police officer. At least 75 people were wounded.
A unit subleader and bombmaker of the Abu Sayyaf Group was behind the blast, said AFP Western Mindanao Command chief Major General Corleto Vinluan Jr on Thursday, August 27.
The Philippine National Police backed the imposition of martial law in Sulu following the blasts, but Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana did not support the proposal. Philippine Army chief Lieutenant General Cirilito Sobejana on Sunday then withdrew his recommendation for a province-wide martial law.
https://rappler.com/nation/duterte-visiting-jolo-after-twin-blasts
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