Cagayan de Oro City (The Redline News Philippines) – The 55th Infantry “Vigilant” Battalion released financial Livelihood and Immediate Assistance to the three (3) former rebels amounting to P65.000.00 during the flag raising ceremony conducted at provincial capitol of Misamis Occidental last May 10, 2017.
The awarding was done thru the joint effort of the DILG, PSWD, Office
of the Governor Misamis Occidental, 55th Infantry "VIGILANT"
Battalion and other LGU's of the said province.
Meanwhile, the 55th Infantry Battalion arrested an
alleged New People’s Army (NPA) commander
in Barangay Gango, Ozamiz City together with an Iglesia Filipina
Independiente bishop, his wife, and their driver last Thursday in Ozamis.
An alleged NPA Commander Rommel
Salinas was arrested after his vehicle was
flagged down in a checkpoint earlier.
Police served to Salinas five warrants of arrest on different cases including murder and
frustrated murder.
Authorities also brought in Salinas’ companions in the vehicle: Iglesia
Filipina Independiente Bishop Carlos Morales and his wife Maria Teofilina, and
their driver Isadome Dalid.
Police chief Jovie Espenido of Ozamis
City and Lt. Col. Pompeo Almagro
of 55th Infantry Battalion said Morales
personally knows Salinas and aided his travel.
But Morales denied knowing Salinas and his affiliation with the rebel
group he said . He added that it was for humanitarian consideration that he
picked up Salinas on the road that rainy night he said. (Posted by Becky D. de Asis- The Redline News Philippines)
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