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CEBU City – Police claimed to have foiled the Abu Sayyaf’s planned incursion in Inabanga town in Bohol province.
“Whatever their plans, be it kidnapping or to disrupt the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) meetings, we aborted them,” stressed Chief Superintendent Noli Taliño, Region 7 police director.
Taliño spoke on Wednesday in a meeting of the Regional Advisory Council for Police Transformation and Development at the Police Regional Office 7 headquarters in Camp Sergion Osmeña Sr. on Osmeña Boulevard.
The cooperation of the Boholano community also helped government troops in neutralizing the Abu Sayyaf, Taliño said.
Locals immediately reported to the police the presence of armed men who turned out to be Abu Sayyaf bandits in Sitio Ilaya, Barangay Napo, Inabanga on April 9, he said.
“We are able to immediately verify our initial information and we quickly responded,” said Taliño.
A civilian — a motorcycle-for-hire driver — tipped off the police on the presence of suspected Abu Sayyaf members in Clarin, Bohol on April 22.
“This was a lesson for the Abu Sayyaf. They can’t operate here,” Taliño said.
He said they believe the Abu Sayyaf was planning to disrupt the ASEAN meetings after bomb-making materials were seized from the apartment rented by Superintendent Maria Christina Nobleza and lover Renierlo Dongon.
“It’s a strong possibility, but we aborted [it],” he said.
Nobleza, Dongon, and his mother and a nephew were intercepted after they attempted to evade a joint police-military checkpoint in Clarin during the skirmishes between government troops and suspected Abu Sayyaf members.
Among the items found in Monday night’s raid of Nobleza’s apartment in Barangay Looc, Panglao were a C4 detonating cord, a blasting cap and a blasting cap kit. (PNA)
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