KABACAN, North Cotabato, — The local government here, in
support to the President Rodrigo Duterte's martial law declaration, has started
Saturday night implementation of local curfew hours.
Mayor Gerlo Guzman said the curfew was reached after the municipal
peace and order council meeting Saturday.
Curfew hours start at 10 p.m. until 4 a.m., Guzman said.
He said for law abiding citizens who need to come out of their homes
during the curfew hours, all they have to do is bring proper identification
cards issued by the government such as driver’s license, postal ID, Comelec ID,
among others.
The peace and order council, Guzman said, also passed a resolution
expressing support to Presidential Proclamation No. 216 on Martial Law.
Kabacan, a town serving as crossroads to North Cotabato, Maguindanao
and Bukidnon, has been the site of several terror attacks, bombings and drug
syndicates activities that endanger the lives of peace loving “Kabakenios.”
Police and Army checkpoints have been put up in all entry and exit
points around town “not to harass law abiding citizens but to prevent
lawlessness from sowing violence and terror.”
Kabacan, having a population of 89,000, has been known as
“transshipment point” of illegal drugs from Northern Mindanao and from the
provinces of Maguindanao, Sultan Kudarat and Lanao del Sur. (Edwin O.
Fernandez/PNA)
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