MINDANAO DAILY
THE NATION’S ADVOCATE FOR TRUTH, JUSTICE AND PROGRESS Volume XIIl, No. 158
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Tuesday, May 30, 2023
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2,000 residents flee Lanao del Sur’s Marogong town By FROILAN GALLARDO
attack Marogong town prompted the residents to seek refuge elsewhere. “That is our initial report and we are closely monitoring the situation in Marogong town. The officials are on alert status,” he said. He said a total of 259 families or some 2,000 residents fled — 206 families to nearby Binidayan town, 45 families to Balabagan, and eight families to Madalum. Maj. Gen. Antonio Nafarete, commanding general of the Army’s 1st Division, said the arrests came after a combat team saw the suspects who were allegedly waiting for their supporters to bring food and supplies in barangays Piangologan and Pabrika in Marogong town last Friday.
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AGAYAN DE ORO An estimated 2,000 residents of Marogong in Lanao del Sur fled their homes on Saturday, fearing their town would be attacked by the Islamic State-inspired Dawlah Islamiyah in retaliation for the arrest of four of its members last Friday. Shaminoden Sambitory, Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Officer, said the residents fled to the neighboring towns of Binidayan, Balabagan and Madalum late Saturday night following the arrest of the four suspects. Sambitory said the fear that the armed group would Marogong, Lanao del Sur. Map courtesy of Google Maps
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NGCP energizes PhP 10.2Bn Hermosa-San Jose transmission line
At 7:22AM on 27 May 2023, power transmission grid operator NGCP successfully energized the HermosaSan Jose 500-kiloVolt (kV) transmission line, an Energy Project of National Significance which will further improve the reliability of the Luzon transmission backbone. Spanning the provinces of Bulacan, Pampanga, and
Bataan, the project will strengthen transmission services and accommodate new bulk power generation from the Bataan area. “The Hermosa-San Jose 500kV project is a major component in our planned Luzon 500kV transmission backbone. Despite many challenges, our teams worked 24/7 to complete this facility. With the ener-
At 7:22AM on 27 May 2023, NGCP successfully energized the Hermosa-San Jose 500-kiloVolt (kV) transmission line, a major project which will further improve the reliability of the Luzon transmission backbone.
gization of the line comes the improved transmission from generation sources towards the load center Metro Manila and nearby provinces,” said NGCP. Besides the new transmission line from Bulacan to Bataan, the project includes the construction of a new Hermosa 500kV Substation, which will enable better voltage regulation and power transfer from existing 230kV facilities in the area. The project was provisionally approved by the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) with a cost of PhP 10.2 Billion; however, the ERC has only allowed the partial recovery of PhP 19 Million or less than 1% of the actual project cost. Given the urgent need to widen the transmission highway along the Bataan corridor, NGCP implemented the HSJ, setting aside for later, the issue on recovery approvals from the ERC. “Our priority has and will always be doing, what is best for the public. Financial considerations can take a back seat and be threshed out later,” stressed Henry Sy, Jr., major stockholder and the company's former president and CEO. “We hope to correct the impression that the consumers are somehow shortchanged with how rates See NGCP, page 11
Jeany “Rose” Hayahay (2nd from left) with her fellow awardees. Photo courtesy of Front Line Defenders
Lumad volunteer teacher receives human rights award in Dublin By MINDANEWS MALAYBALAY CITY – A Lumad volunteer teacher received on Friday the 2023 Award for Human Rights Defenders at Risk in Dublin, Ireland, the Save Our Schools Network, an NGO based in Mindanao said in a statement Saturday. The award was conferred on Jeany “Rose” Hayahay by Front Line Defenders for her advocacy of children’s and indigenous peoples rights. “Hayahay’s work has made her a target of harassment and threats from the military. She has been red-tagged, had her home raided, and been subjected to online harassment. De-
spite the risks, Hayahay continues to speak out for the rights of children in Mindanao,” SOS Network said. Aside from Hayahay, who was chosen as the awardee for the Asia-Pacific, the award was also given to Olivier Bahemuke Ndoole of the Democratic Republic of Congo for Africa, Segundo Ordoñez of Ecuador for the Americas, Digital Security Lab Ukraine (DSLU) for Europe and Central Asia, and Hala Ahed of Jordan for the Middle East and North Africa. DSLU was represented by its Executive Director Vita Volodovska. “This award is dedicated
to all the victims of human rights abuses, including my co-Lumad Volunteer Teachers Chad Booc and Jurain Ngujo, who were both massacred along with three others by the Philippines Military, for my co-teachers and students facing trumped-up charges, my fellow activists and indigenous children who lost their lives in defending their ancestral land, and to the people we served,” Hayahay said in her speech during the awarding ceremony in Dublin. “The human rights situation in the Philippines is dire. Killings, enforced disappearance and trumpedSee LUMAD, page 11