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08/09/2025

PDEA-9 agents seize 1 kilo shabu from peddler
Agents of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency-9 confiscated P6.8 million worth of shabu from a dealer entrapped in a residential area in Barangay Sinunuc in Zamboanga City on Monday night, September 8, 2025.
Bryan Babang, regional director of PDEA-9, told reporters on Tuesday, September 9, that the male suspect was immediately detained after selling to their agents a kilo of shabu, costing P6.8 million, during a clandestine tradeoff in Barangay Sinunuc.
The entrapment operation that led to the arrest of the suspect and confiscation from him of P6.8 million worth of shabu was laid with the help of barangay officials and confidential informants aware of his shabu trafficking activities.
Babang said units of the Police Regional Office-9, under Brig Gen. Eleazar Matta, supported extensively the operation.
Babang said the suspect who fell in their anti-narcotics sting is now locked in a detention facility, to be prosecuted for violation of the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002. (September 9, 2025, Zamboanga City, Region 9)

08/09/2025

7 NPAs sa Sultan Kudarat province, sumuko

Pitong mga miyembro ng ngayon ay mahina ng New People’s Army, apat sa kanila menor-de-edad na puwersahang pinasanib ng mga NPA commanders sa kanilang teroristang grupo, ang sumuko sa 37th Infantry Battalion sa Kalamansig, Sultan Kudarat nitong hapon ng Lunes, September 8, 2025.

Sa ulat nitong Martes ni Brig Gen. Donald Gumiran, commander ng 6th Infantry Division, agad na iprinisenta ni Lt. Col. Christopher Capuyan, commanding officer ng 37th IB, ang pitong sumukong mga gerilya kina Brig. Gen. Michael Santos, na siyang namumuno ng 603rd Infantry Brigade, at Kalamansig Mayor Ronan Eugene Garcia.

Isinalaysay ng mga sumukong NPA, dalawa sa kanila mga babae, habang nasa tanggapan ng mayor ng Kalamansig, na nagpasya silang magbalik-loob na sa pamahalaan upang muling makapiling ang kani-kanilang mga pamilya matapos mamulat na wala ng kabuluhan ang grupo na ngayon ay tanging terorismo na lang ang pinapalaganap.

Ayon sa mga opisyal ng multi-sector Kalamansig Municipal Peace and Order Council, ang pagsuko sa 37th IB ng pitong mga NPA ay bunga ng magkatuwang na backchannel negotiations na isinagawa ng mga local government officials sa Kalamansig at nila Capuyan at Santos.

Ayon kay Gumiran, magtutulungan ang 603rd Infantry Brigade at ang local government unit ng Kalamansig sa pag-gabay sa pitong mga NPA sa kanilang pagbalik sa kani-kanilang mga barangay upang mamuhay na ng tahimik.

Kinumpirma ng dalawang nakakatandang mga NPAs sa grupo na sumuko, sina Brigoy, 27-anyos, at ang 29-anyos na si Papaw, parehong mula sa isang indigenous community sa probinsya ng Sultan Kudarat, na mahina na ang NPA at ang mga nalalabing mga miyembro nito ay sapilitang nangingikil na lang ng pera at bigas sa mga walang labang mga magsasaka at mga maliit na negosyante upang may makain at may pondong magagamit para sa kanilang mga pangangailangan.

Binigyan ni Mayor Garcia ng inisyal na ayudang cash at bigas ang pitong sumukong NPA na kanilang babaunin sa kanilang pag-uwi sa kani-kanilang mga lugar. (Sept. 9, 2025, Kalamansig, Sultan Kudarat, Region 12)

06/09/2025

Big southern political bloc wants clean, safe BARMM polls

A large bloc of local executives and sectoral leaders in the Bangsamoro region have reaffirmed commitment to Malacañang’s Mindanao peace process and promised support for multi-sector efforts to have peaceful and credible regional parliamentary elections on October 13, 2025.

Members of the influential Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao Grand Coalition, most known as the BGC, had also reached a consensus, during their Ranaw Stakeholders’ Summit in Marawi City in Lanao del Sur on Thursday, September 4, to maximize their efforts in fostering unity among politicians and sectoral leaders in the province.

Most members of the BGC in Lanao del Sur, one of BARMM’s five provinces, belong to the region’s pioneer political party, the Serbisyong Inklusibo, Alyansang Progresibo, or SIAP. More than 30 of Lanao del Sur's 39 mayors were elected to office during the May 12, 2025 elections as SIAP candidates.

Lanao del Sur Vice Gov. Mohammad Khalid Raki-in Adiong told reporters on Saturday, September 6, that the Ranaw Stakeholders’ Summit last Thursday in Marawi City was organized for sectoral leaders and local executives to build consensus on how they can cooperate better in peace and sustainable development initiatives meant to boost the socio-economic growth of Lanao del Sur.

The lawyer-entrepreneur Ronald Hallid Dimacisil Torres, chairman of the Bangsamoro Business Council, said Lanao del Sur has several towns touted as BARMM’s new investment hubs, ideal for capital-intensive, large-scale agricultural ventures.

The chairman of the Bangsamoro Regional Board of Investments, Mohammad Pasigan, said they are trying their best to entice investors from other regions and from abroad to venture into viable business projects in Lanao del Sur.

“Among the objectives of our Ranaw Stakeholders' Summit is for participants to agree on how to address collectively peace and governance challenges and issues and how to build strong connections with the Bangsamoro regional government in terms of peace and development initiatives for our province,” Adiong, regional figurehead of the SIAP party said.

The BGC is composed of SIAP, the Bangsamoro People’s Party, the Al Ittihad Party and the Sallam Party that have chapters in BARMM’s five provinces, Maguindanao del Norte, Maguindanao del Sur, Lanao del Sur, Basilan and Tawi-Tawi, and in its three cities, Lamitan, Marawi and Cotabato.

Politicians from across Lanao del Sur and in its capital, Marawi City, had also explicitly committed, during the summit, to help the Commission on Elections, the Police Regional Office-Bangsamoro Autonomous Region and units of the military’s Western Mindanao Command ensure safe and clean BARMM parliamentary polls in October 13, 2025.

“We in Lanao del Sur want safe and credible parliamentary elections in our province and elsewhere in the Bangsamoro region,” Adiong said.

The SIAP has candidates for the parliamentary seats in different districts in Lanao del Sur and in other areas in the autonomous region, including Cotabato City, the seat of the BARMM regional government. (SEPTEMBER 6, 2025, LANAO DEL SUR PROVINCE, BANGSAMORO REGION)

06/09/2025

Japan provides BARMM with costly engineering equipment

Japan has provided the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao some P600 million worth of of heavy equipment for infrastructure development, calamity mitigation and disaster response operations in all of the five provinces and three cities under its jurisdiction.

Japan had actively supported the tedious peace talks, which lasted for two decades, between Malacañang and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front that resulted in the replacement in 2019 of the then 27-year Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao with a more empowered BARMM. Several agencies under the Bangsamoro regional government are being managed together by officials of the M**F and the Moro National Liberation Front.

Japan’s ambassador to the Philippines, Endo Kazuya, personally turned over the heavy equipment on Friday, September 5, to officials of the BARMM government, led by Assistant Senior Minister Abdullah Cusain and the director-general of the Bangsamoro public works ministry, Engineer Danilo Ong in a symbolic rite at the regional capitol in uptown Cotabato City.

The grant consisted of 75 heavy equipment, including dump trucks, carrier trucks, payloaders, excavators, aquatic plant harvesters, large drilling machines and mobile high-pressure air compressors.

Kazuya said the BARMM government can use the heavy equipment from their government for development initiatives and emergency response missions.

“It’s an honor for us to work with the people in the Bangsamoro region for peace and development. Japan has been steadfast in helping foster peace and development in the Bangsamoro region,” Kazuya told reporters at the sideline of Friday’s event at the BARMM capitol.

He said the governments of Japan and the Philippines are cooperating in fostering peace and sustainable development in the Bangsamoro region.

In separate messages during the turnover ceremony, Cosain and Ong separately thanked Japan for providing the BARMM government with costly heavy equipment needed for projects meant to boost the region’s economic growth that can catalyze lasting peace in all the five provinces and three cities in the autonomous region.

The now five-year BARMM covers the provinces of Maguindanao del Norte, Maguindanao del Sur, Lanao del Sur, Basilan and Tawi-Tawi and the cities of Lamitan, Marawi and Cotabato.

Photo shows BARMM officials and Kazuya inspecting one of the payloaders Japan donated to the Bangsamoro regional government. (Sept. 6, 2025, Cotabato City, Bangsamoro Region)

03/09/2025

MNLF political party, isusulong, Muslim-Christian-IP unity

Nais ng Bangsamoro Party (BAPA) ng Moro National Liberation Front na ipagpatuloy ang pakikibaka para sa peace, sustainable development at makabuluhang awtonomiya sa pamamagitan ng progresibong pulitika, sa isang lugar ng mapayapang labanan ng mga diskurso --- ang regional parliament ng Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao.

Ito ang maliwanag na pahiwatig ng mga leaders ng MNLF, sa pamumuno ng chairman ng kanilang central committee, si BARMM Labor Minister Muslimin Sema, sa isang extensibong dayalogo sa mga reporters sa isang function facility sa Cotabato City nitong Martes, September 2, 2025.

Ginunita din nitong Martres ng mga peace advocates sa ibat-ibang panig ng Pilipinas at ng mga MNLF communities sa Mindanao ang ika 29th anniversary ng September 2, 1996 government-MNLF peace agreement.

Ipinaliwanag ni BARMM Labor Minister Sema sa mga reporters na marami pang dapat isagawa ang mga local communities at ang Philippine government upang maging ganap ang pagpapalaganap ng peace and development sa kontexto ng peace and humanitarian objectives ng mga hiwalay na kasunduang pangkapayapaan ng Malacañang sa MNLF at sa Moro Islamic Liberation Front.

Magkatuwang ang MNLF at M**F sa pamamahala ng ilang mga ahensya ng BARMM, naitatag nito lang 2019, at parehong may mga representatibo ang dalawang fronts sa 80-seat Bangsamoro parliament sa kapitolyo ng autonomous region sa Cotabato City.

Ayon kay BARMM Labor Minister Sema at sa dalawang mga MNLF officials na kasapi ng Bangsamoro parliament, sina Hatimil Hassan at Omar Yasser Sema, isusulong ng Bangsamoro Party, mas kilala na BAPA Party, ang pagprotekta sa mga dividendo ng Mindanao peace process sa prosesong mapayapa, sa bagong mapayapang intellectual battlefield na walang putukan --- sa parliamento ng Bangsamoro region.

Ayon kay Member of Parliament Sema, marami pang dapat gawin upang maipatupad "in letter and spirit" ang government-MNLF peace agreement na kanilang sinisikap na maisakatuparan sa mapayapang mga paraan.

Ang BAPA Party ng MNLF ay may mga kandidato para sa mga parliamentary seats ng iba’t-ibang parliamentary districts sa Bangsamoro region sa gaganaping kaunaunahang BARMM regional elections ngayong October 13, 2025.

Ang MNLF ang siyang pinaka-pioneer na Moro front na nag-alsa para makamit ang genuine Moro identify at self-rule noong 1970s. Ang naging pinaka “mother reference” ng mga hiwalay na peace agreements ng Malacañang sa MNLF at sa M**F ay ang December 23, 1976 Tripoli Agreement ng MNLF at ng Philippine government.

Ayon kay Member of Parliament Sema na isang abogado, ang progresibong pulitikang isusulong ng BAPA Party ay inklusibo, pulitikang naglalayong mapabuti ang kalagayan ng Muslims, Christians at non-Moro indigenous people sa Bangsamoro region at sa mga karatig na mga probinsya sa ibat-ibang lugar sa Mindanao. (September 3, 2025, Cotabato City, Bangsamoro Region)

03/09/2025

Mag-asawa, menor-de-edad patay sa ambush

Agad na namatay ang mag-asawang mga etnikong Maguindanaon at kasama nilang babaeng 16-anyos sa isang ambush sa Barangay Nalinan sa Sultan Kudarat, Maguindanao del Norte nitong hapon ng Lunes, September 1, 2025.

Kinumpirma nitong Martes, September 2, ng mga local executives at ng mga opisyal ng Maguindanao del Norte Provincial Police Office at ng Police Regional Office-Bangsamoro Autonomous Region ang pagkasawi sa naturang insidente ng tricycle driver na si Ibrahim Payapat, ng kanyang kabiyak na si Zenaida Ango Payapat at ng kanilang kasamang isang menor-de-edad na babae.

Sakay ang tatlo ng tricycle na minamaneho ni Payapat ng sila ay tambangan ng mga armadong nakaabang sa gilid ng isang farm-to-market road sa Barangay Nalinan, isang liblib na lugar sa Sultan Kudarat na siyang kabisera ng probinsya ng Maguindanao del Norte.

Agad na nakatakas ang mga nag-ambush sa kanila, ayon sa mga barangay officials sa Nalinan.

Ang tatlong ambush victims ay nadeklarang dead on arrival ng mga manggagamot sa Cotabato Sanitarium Hospital sa hindi kalayuang Barangay Pinaring sa Sultan Kudarat kung saan sila dinala ng mga barangay officials upang malapatan sana ng lunas.

Ayon kay Brig. Gen. Jaysen De Guzman, director ng Police Regional Office-Bangsamoro Autonomous Region, nagtutulungan ang mga barangay leaders at mga opisyal ng Sultan Kudarat Municipal Police Station sa pagkilala sa mga tumambang sa mga biktima upang masampahan ng kauukulang kaso. (Sept. 2, 2025)

03/09/2025

02/09/2025

Nagbebenta ng shabu sa mga kapitbahay sa Cotabato City, timbog

Isang dealer ng shabu na patagong nagbebenta ng shabu sa kanyang mga kapitbahay sa Barangay Rosary Heights 9 sa Cotabato City ang nalambat ng mga anti-narcotics agents nitong Martes, September 2, 2025, sa tulong ng kanyang mga kamag-anak at mga kaibigan.

Kinumpirma nitong Miyerkules ng mga barangay officials at ng mga kasapi ng multi-sector Cotabato City Peace and Order Council ang pagkaaresto sa isang entrapment operation sa 33-anyos na si Demosthenes Acohon Bayatan ng mga kasapi ng Cotabato City Police Drug Enforcement Unit, sa pangunguna ni Capt. Jonathan Marciano, at ng mga units ng Cotabato City Police Office na pinamumunuan ng kanilang director na si Col. Jibin Bongcayao.

Hindi na pumalag pa si Bayatan ng arestuhin ng mga hindi unipormadong mga pulis na kanyang nabentahan ng P1,360 na halaga ng shabu sa isang lugar sa Purok 1 sa Barangay Rosary Heights 9.

Kinumpirma nila Bongcayao at ni Brig. Gen. Jaysen De Guzman, director ng Police Regional Office-Bangsamoro Autonomous Region, na mismong mga kamag-anak at mga kaibigan ng suspect ang siyang nag-report ng kanyang illegal na gawain kaya naisagawa ang entrapment operation na nagresulta sa kanyang pagkaaresto.

Nahaharap na sa kasong paglabag sa Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002 si Bayatan. (Sept.3, 2025)

01/09/2025

Mister pinatay si misis bago nagpakamatay

Isang mister na ayon sa mga barangay officials ay posibleng may depression ang nakapatay ng kanyang misis gamit ang itak bago nagpakamatay sa kanilang bahay sa Sitio Blue sa Barangay Salacafe sa T’boli, South Cotabato kamakalawa.

Kinumpirma nitong Linggo, August 31, ng mga local officials at mga imbestigador ng T’boli Municipal Police Station ang insidente kung saan napatay sa mga taga ng kanyang mister ang isang misis habang naghahanda ng almusal.

Ayon sa mga kakilala, matagal ng bugnutin at madalas makitang naka-upo lang sa isang tabi ang suspect, na marami diumanong kinakaharap na problema, bago naganap ang insidente.

Ayon sa mga barangay officials ng Salacafe, matapos niyang mapatay sa mga taga ang kanyang misis, nagsaksak sa dibdib gamit mahabang kutsilyo ang depressed na mister na nagsanhi din ng kanyang kamatayan. (September 1, 2025)

01/09/2025

Candidates for BARMM parliament forge peace deal

Eight aspirants for the six seats in the two parliamentary districts in this city, the capital of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, have forged a covenant binding them to help ensure clean and peaceful regional elections on October 13, 2025.

Shariff Abas, Reynaldo Canen and Romeo Sema, who are candidates for Cotabato City’s first parliamentary district, and Zahrumin Midtimbang, Al-Haashir Ala, Madatu Datumanong, Jaafar Ali and Naguib Sinarimbo, all aspiring to represent the second district of the city to the 80-seat BARMM parliament, signed the compact during a symbolic rite on Monday morning, September 1.

The event, held at a function facility in Cotabato City, was jointly organized by Lt. Col. Romulo Dimayuga, commanding officer of the Marine Battalion Landing Team-6, his immediate superior, Brig. Gen. Larry Battala of the 1st Marine Brigade, Cotabato City’s police director, Col. Jibin Bongcayao, and officials of the Commission on Elections-BARMM.

Each of the eight candidates for BARMM’s regional lawmaking body promised verbally then, in the presence of a Comelec regional official, the lawyer Mohammad Nabil Mutia, to abide with the election rules pertaining to the October 18 regional polls, the first ever since the creation in 2019 of the Bangsamoro region.

The 80-seat BARMM parliament, led by a chief minister, covers the provinces of Maguindanao del Norte, Maguindanao del Sur, Lanao del Sur, Basilan and Tawi-Tawi and the cities of Lamitan, Marawi and Cotabato.

Sinarimbo, chairman for Cotabato City of BARMM’s pioneer regional party, the Serbisyong Inklusibo, Alyansang Progresibo, told reporters, after affixing his signature to the peace covenant printed on a tarpaulin, that he and his supporters will do their best to abide with the rules that the Comelec had set for the parliamentary polls.

“There is no problem with us doing that,” said Sinarimbo, a lawyer who had served as BARMM’s local government minister before he was appointed member of the 80-seat regional parliament last March by President Ferdinand R. Marcos, Jr.

Sema, also an appointed member of the parliament, said he is ready to swear over the Qur’an to religiously adhere to Comelec rules on BARMM’s parliamentary elections.

The eight candidates had separately expressed tacit appreciation of the efforts of the Philippine Marine Corps units, securing Cotabato City under the supervision of the Army’s 6th Infantry Division, and the Cotabato City police to foster peace among all of them via a covenant that they signed in the presence of reporters and officials from the Police Regional Office-Bangsamoro Autonomous Region.

Photo shows Naguib Sinarimbo, an appointed member of the 80-seat Bangsamoro lawmaking body, signing the peace covenant binding him and seven other candidates for the six parliamentary slots in Cotabato City to support inter-agency thrusts meant to ensure clean and safe regional parliamentary polls on October 13. (September 1, 2025, Cotabato City, Bangsamoro Region)

01/09/2025

Dawlah Islamiya’s fund keeper arrested

Policemen arrested the wife of a Dawlah Islamiya leader, handling funds for procurement of components for improvised explosive devices obtainable in local establishments, in an operation near the Cotabato Airport in Datu Odin Sinsuat, Maguindanao del Norte on Monday morning, September 1, 2025.

The 31-year-old Jasmiya Camsa Ibrahim, a resident of Sitio Nakan in Barangay Kapaya in Bagumbayan, Sultan Kudarat, yielded peacefully when a police team showed her copies of warrants for her arrest for possession of fi****ms, explosives and for coddling wanted members of the Dawlah Islamiya while she was at the premises of the Cotabato Airport in Barangay Awang in Datu Odin Sinsuat.

Brig. Gen. Jaysen De Guzman, director of the Police Regional Office-Bangsamoro Autonomous Region, told reporters on Monday afternoon that the operation that led to the arrest of Ibrahim, long subject of surveillance, was jointly carried out by personnel of the Datu Odin Sinsuat Municipal Police Station, led by Lt. Col. Esmael Madin, and officials of different units of PRO-BAR.

De Guzman said intelligence agents from the Cotabato City Police Office, led by their director, Col, Jibin Bongcayao, and intelligence agents from the Army’s 6th Infantry Division also supported the anti-terror operation, premised on reports by confidential informants who spotted Ibrahim at one spot near the Cotabato Airport.

Moro traditional leaders in Maguindanao del Sur and Maguindanao del Norte provinces had confirmed to reporters that Ibrahim is one of the four wives of the wanted Abu Suffian, tagged as mastermind in the December 31, 2018 bombing in the Southseas Mall in Cotabato City that left two shoppers dead and left more than 10 others injured.

Abu Suffian is a henchman of Salahuddin Hassan, the remaining leader of the now weakened Dawlah Islamiya, known for fomenting hatred for non-Muslims and implicated in more than 30 bombings, since 2015, or buses and commercial establishments after owners refused to shell out protection money.

Officials of Army and PRO-BAR intelligence units said Ibrahim handles the funds of the Dawlah Islamiya earmarked for procurement of ammunition and ammonium nitrate and potassium chlorate that its members use as blasting charges for IEDs rigged with blasting contraptions that can be detonated from a distance using mobile phones. (September 1, 2025, Maguindanao del Norte, Bangsamoro Region)