Yesterday po Misecounter! Today Unaware na naman po ...Huh Ano po KUYA yun totoo???..... Top brass unaware of operation to get Marwan Top officials of the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) and the Philippine National Police (PNP) were not informed of the operation on Sunday (January 25) of the Special Action Force (SAF) in Mamasapano, Maguindanao, which ended up in a clash with the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF), along with some members of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF). Both Interior Secretary Manuel Roxas II and Deputy Director General Leonardo Espina, acting PNP chief, made this admission at a news conference held at Camp Crame on Tuesday (January 27). As of this posting, the official toll of the encounter stood at 44 SAF members dead, 12 injured, and 226 still unaccounted for. The board of inquiry that Roxas ordered formed would look into this apparent lapse, among other things. Espina pointed out that PNP command group must first review the concept of any operation, which should be in a document detailing the plan before it could be executed. It is one of the boards task, he added, to identify if there were operational lapses and who were liable for them. The board is headed by Director Edgardo Ingking, director for integrated police operations of Western Mindanao, as head. Its members are Director Benjamin Magalong, chief of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG), and Chief Supt. Catalino Rodriguez, head of the Directorate for Research and Development, a former head of the Police Regional Office 10, which covers Northern Mindanao. Meanwhile, Director Leo Lapeñas, commander of the PNP-SAF, was replaced by his deputy, Chief Supt. Noli Taliño. The fallen police officers will get medals, promotions, and a full state funeral, Roxas said. The clash happened in the early hours of Sunday in Barangay Tukanalipao in Mamasapano, which some SAF members entered to serve warrants of arrest on Jemaah Islamiyah bomb expert Zulkipli bin Hir, alias Marwan, and his cohort Abdul Basit Usman. As of the time of the Tuesday news conference, it was still not clear to authorities whether Marwan was killed in the encounter. But Roxas said some of the survivors testified that they managed to kill the Marwan, failing only to get his body. Roxas added that pictures of a body, allegedly of Marwan, were taken and it will be processed to confirm if it is indeed the bomb experts body. He added that despite the incident, the government still had full confidence that peace pact with the MILF would be
Posted on: Tue, 27 Jan 2015 07:18:50 +0000
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