From GMA News (Jan 22): Armed men arrested in Lanao Sur not from Maute Group —AFP
The military on Saturday clarified that the more that 20 armed men soldiers rounded up at a checkpoint in Marawi City were not members of the terrorist Maute Group.
In a radio interview, Armed Forces of the Philippines spokesman Brig. Gen. Restituto Padilla said that those arrested at an Army checkpoint at the boundary of the city's Barangays Matampay and Mapiga last January 17 were members of the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF).
The arrest was due to lack of coordination by the armed group led by MNLF Kumander Aleem Abdulaziz Aminodin with the Army's 51st Infantry Battalion.
Lanao del Sur Police Provincial director Senior Supt. Datumama Mokalid Al-Haj told GMA News Online in a text message that the police are still determining the personal identities of those arrested.
Mokalid appealed to Lanao del Sur residents to refrain from carrying illegal firearms to avoid arrest. “I am wishing that everybody should follow the law on illegal firearm."
He said the military turned over to the police the seized firearms that included a loaded M60 machine gun, a Barrett rifle, an M14 rifle, an M1 Garand rifle, an M16 Bushmaster, and several handguns.
The firearms will be immediately subjected to ballistics test at the regional police laboratory.
Mokalid said the group of Aminodin was on board four vehicles heading for Lanao del Norte when it was intercepted.
http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story/596653/news/regions/armed-men-arrested-in-lanao-sur-not-from-maute-group-afp
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