VOL. XXIX NO. 231 3 Sections 32 Pages P18 THURSday : OCTOBER 1, 2015 www.thestandard.com.ph editorial@thestandard.com.ph
it’s leni for mar, bigwigs of lP say
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kidnAP victims locAted in sulu By Francisco Tuyay
MORO National Liberation Front founding chairman Nur Misuari said Wednesday he has located the kidnap victims—three foreigners and a Filipina—in Sulu province and identified the group behind their abduction from the Ocean View Resort Hotel on Samal Island on Sept. 21.
“We already know where the kidnap victims are,” said MNLF spokesman Absalom Cerveza quoting Misuari after talking to him by phone. “We are 95 percent sure where they are.” Cerveza did not offer any details, however. An informed source on Wednesday identified the leader of the kidnappers as Al-Habsi Mi-
saya or Al Bahil, a former member of the Abu Sayyaf Group from Jolo who formed his own gang that now operates in the Zamboanga Sibugay area. The source described Misaya as a leader of the ASG faction that recently kidnapped a Malaysian resort manager Yang Zai Linin in Sabah in 2014 and Malaysian maritime policeman Kons Zakiah Aleip, also in
Sabah, and beheaded seven Filipino factory workers in 2007. The source said Misaya met the group from Samal Island and brought them to the foot of Mt. Bud Daho, about 15 to 16 kilometers from the camp of the MNLF. Misaya or Bahil, the source said, was responsible for the series of kidnappings aimed at foreigners. Next page
I love Mar. Laguna Rep. Dan Fernandez of the Liberal Party shows his affection for his candidate, former Secretary Mar Roxas (or at least Roxas’ life-size cardboard cutout) during a meeting of the ruling party in Cubao, Quezon City Wednesday. jansen roMero
Ombudsman probes Abad, subaltern ing in connection with the use of the now-discredited Disbursement THE Office of the Ombudsman Acceleration Program. on Wednesday ordered a prelimiThe DAP, created by Abad to nary investigation against Budget shuffle funds from one project to Secretary Florencio Abad and Un- another ostensibly to spur ecodersecretary Mario Relampagos nomic growth, was ruled unconfor technical malversation and ad- stitutional by the Supreme Court ministrative charges they are fac- in 2014. The Court reaffirmed its
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ruling in February this year. Ombudsman Conchita Carpio Morales said Wednesday that a special panel of field investigators had completed its probe into the use of DAP funds under the Office of the President from 2011 to 2012 and recommended that Abad and RelampaNext page gos be investigated.
Aquino, not students, should study PH history
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