BANGSAMORO NEWS UPDATES

KIDAPAWAN CITY - More than 1,150 cats and dogs were vaccinated in an intensified anti-rabies vaccination of the city veterinary office.Dr. Eugene Gornez, Kidapawan City veterinarian, said the mass vaccination will also be conducted in remote barangays to help prevent the escalation of rabis among animals and pets. March is Rabies Awareness Month.

KORONADAL CITY - Sixteen fire incidents have been reproted in South Cotabato in 2015, the provincial disaster risk reduction office today said.Mila Lorca, South CotabatoProvincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (PDRRMC) Action Officer, told DXOMRadyo Bida Koronadal that the data does not include fire incidents that were not reported to the bureau of fire office.

DAVAO
CITY (PNA) -- Military authorities here assured that the
city’s safety and security will not be affected even with the offensive
operations against the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF) in
Maguindanao.Colonel Macairog Alberto, commanding officer of the
Task Force Davao (TF Davao) said the unit is fully aware of all
possibilities as soldiers pursue the members of the BIFF in the
province. He said they keep watch on the possible enclaves where terror
cells might take refuge if ever they would come to the city.Alberto

KIDAPAWAN CITY - Despite facing several murder charges and other heinous crimes, arrested leader of an armed Moro group in Mindanao believed he was a ‘good man’, said an official of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) in Sultan Kudarat. Interviewed by DXND Radyo Bida Kidapawan,Chief Inspector Elmer Guevarra, CIDT-Sultan Kudarat head, said that Muhammad Tambako Ali, former leader of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), denied the charges filed against him saying he is an Islamic mentor teaching good values among his students.

KIDAPAWAN CITY -The city government here has filed a petition at the three local trial courts in North Cotabato that seeks preclusion of the imminent transfer of more high-risk inmates from the provincial penitentiary to the jail here.

KIDAPAWAN CITY - A 48-year old farmer believed to be a member of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) was killed when attacked by allegedly members of the same rebel front in a village here Friday. Chief Inspector Elias Colonia, chief of Matalam municipal police station, identified the victim as Samod Baraguir, member of the 5thBrigade of the 108thBase Command of the Bangsamoro Islamic Armed Forces (BIAF) of the MILF.

COTABATO CITY --- Close to 200 licensed newly-appointed teachers in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao on Thursday urged Malacañang to allocate more money for education of children in ARMM, not on military solutions to the decades-old Moro issue.The newly enlisted teachers brought to more than 3,000 the number of mentors the ARMM’s Department of Education hired in the past 18 months as part of the present administration's effort to professionalize and maximize the operations of the agency.The DepEd-ARMM was touted as the most corrupt agency in the region during the time of past admini

KIDAPAWAN
CITY -- A provincial board member here has asked local
government chief executives to spearhead and be active in the campaign
against terrorism and save its people from harm or even death.North
Cotabato and Kidapawan City have been bracing for bombings as
diversionary tactics by outlawed Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters
(BIFF) now the subject of massive law enforcement operations in adjacent
Maguindanao province.Its leaders have publicly announced it will

QUEZON, Bukidnon -- The military is now pursuing a group of communist rebels believed responsible for the burning of seven trucks and in the ambuscade of responding law enforcers along the Davao-Bukidnon highway Sunday.Capt. Norman M.

BULDON, Maguindanao– Unidentified gunmen shot dead two soldiers of the 37th Infantry
Battalion in Barangay Poblacion hereMonday night, police said.

Inspector
Sariko Akmad, Buldon police chief, said the two soldiers, identified as
Corporals Nerger Pinero and Jamalil Bulay-Bulay, were in civilian attire and
heading toward the town’s public market when shot at close range at past 6 p.m.