BORACAY Island, Aklan, Philippines
- A Maute family in this resort island has shunned terrorism in Marawi
City and has pledged cooperation to the Aklan Provincial Police Office (APPO.)
SPO1 Nida Gregas-Lachica, information officer of the APPO, in an
interview on Thursday said the Maute family has recently coordinated with the
Boracay Philippine National Police to clarify themselves.
"The family has been living in Boracay as a trader for the past
eight years. They also testified that they are not connected to the Maute in
Marawi," Gregas said.
A Maute family is being pinpointed by the military in Marawi to have
pledged alliance to the ISIS together with the Abu Sayyaf Group. Some of the
Maute families in Metro Manila and other parts of the country had been
questioned relative to their possible connections to the terrorists.
Meanwhile, Gregas said that the APPO has also monitored four families
who evacuated from the Marawi City.
"They arrived in Barangay Aquino, Ibajay Aklan on May 28 around
11:00 p.m. They had relatives there. Both the provincial and municipal offices
of the Department of Social Welfare and Development had provided initial
assistance to the evacuees," Gregas said.
It was gathered that the head of the family is a resident of Marawi and
has since been working in the Commission of Audit.
"Two of the four families will be going back to Iligan City this
weekend. The two others are planning to stay for good in the province for the
education of their children," Gregas said.
Both the Maute in Boracay and evacuees from Marawi City underwent
profiling by the police. (Jun N. Aguirre/PNA)
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