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More soldiers deployed in BARMM for election duties
- Oct 27, 2023
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The 500 soldiers were from Luzon and Visayas and arrived on Friday, October 20 at Cotabato (Awang) Airport in Datu Odin Sinsuat town, Maguindanao Del Norte.
They were greeted warmly by onlookers and representatives from the Army's 6th Infantry Division from Camp Siongco, only about 200 meters away, as they alighted from the aircraft that brought them in, a Philstar.com online report said Saturday, October 21.
Mayor Rolly Sacdalan of Midsayap in Cotabato province said Saturday he and his constituent-municipal leaders are thankful to the commander of the Philippine Army, Lt. Gen. Roy Galido, for keeping his promise to work out the deployment of more soldiers in central Mindanao where there are feudal clans that pitted candidates for barangay and SK positions, the Philstar report said.
Sacdalan said members of the multi-sector municipal peace and order council under him and his Moro and non-Moro constituents are supporting the election security efforts of the police and Army units in Midsayap.
A number of barangays in central Mindanao’s adjoining provinces of Maguindanao del Norte, Maguindanao del Sur and Lanao del Sur in the Bangsamoro region, Cotabato, and Sultan Kudarat under Region 12, are locked in deep-seated hostilities among Moro clans that pitted candidates for barangay and SK positions, the report also said.
Army Major Gen. Alex Rillera, commander of 6th ID, and Bangsamoro regional police director Brig. Gen. Allan Nobleza separately told reporters via Viber Saturday that they are together complementing the election security thrusts of Comelec in known election hotspots.
“Areas beset with security issues shall be guarded round-the-clock under Comelec’s guidance,” Rillera said.
“That is good for the security efforts of local government units in the Bangsamoro region and the Comelec,” Ameruddin Ansao Oro, a Muslim Missionary said in Filipino.
Nobleza said the Ministry of the Interior and Local Government-Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao is also actively helping push PRO-BAR’s election security activities forward.
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