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| ==[[Zamboanga Sibugay News]]== | | ==[[Zamboanga Sibugay News]]== |
| '''Lawmaker advises 4Ps beneficiaries to be aware of responsibilities''' | | '''Soldiers nab 3 members of gang in Rodwell kidnap''' |
| *Source: http://www.pia.gov.ph/news/index.php?article=1401335411817 | | *Source: http://www.manilatimes.net/index.php/news/regions/21895-soldiers-nab-3-members-of-gang-in-rodwell-kidnap |
| *Thursday, April 26, 2012 | | *Sunday, April 29, 2012 |
| :By Jocelyn P. Alvarez | | :By AL JACINTO |
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| ZAMBOANGA CITY, April 26 (PIA) -- A lawmaker has advised the beneficiaries of the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) to be aware of the responsibilities that come with the benefits they receive. | | ZAMBOANGA CITY: Government troops captured three gunmen in a clash Saturday with a notorious gang tied to the kidnapping of an Australian adventurer in Zamboanga Sibugay province, officials said. |
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| “Be updated and know your responsibilities,” said Zamboanga Sibugay’s 1st District Congressman Jonathan Cabilao Yambao to the beneficiaries of Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program who were present during the Convergence Caravan held in Alicia, Sibugay recently.
| | Officials said the troops raided the hideout of Waning Abdulsalam in Naga town, but the gang leader who was previously implicated in the kidnapping of Warren Rodwell, 52, escaped. |
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| Member of committees on appropriations and poverty reduction, Yambao explained to his constituents where the money for the program came from and how some Pantawid supporters and Department of Social Welfare and Development officials defended the budget which materialized with the inclusion of 20,658 poor households in Sibugay District I for the said program.
| | “We were not able to get Waning, but we captured three of his followers in a clash that lasted over 30 minutes. There is no report about Rodwell,” Army Colonel Gerry Barrientos, commander of the 102nd Infantry Brigade, told The Manila Times. |
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| He also encouraged the beneficiaries to know more about the program considering the new policies instituted by the implementing agency and take the initiative to help uplift themselves from poverty. Violation of policies such as pawning their cards to credit facilities, accordingly, is one of the many issues discussed in the congress during program reviews. | | He said troops recovered weapons from Abdusalsalam’s hideout in the village of Mamagon. |
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| “Kinahanglan mag-double time ta, apan ang program 5-ka tuig lang, ug daghan pa ta buluhatun para mu-uswag atong kinabuhi ” (We have to double our efforts for the program is good for 5 years only and we still have so much to do to improve our lives), said the young congressman, challenging the beneficiaries from the nine municipalities of Alicia, Buug, Diplahan, Imelda, Mabuhay, Malangas, Olutanga, Payao and Talusan.
| | Abdulsalam was a former commander of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front which is currently negotiating peace with Manila. Aside from Abdusalsalam, authorities also linked another MILF leader Barahama Ali to Rodwell’s kidnapping. |
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| Report from the Social Welfare and Development Team (SWADT) in Ipil said that a total amount of P228,949,560 had already been disbursed by Landbank to the beneficiaries in District I of Sibugay from 2009 to 2011.
| | Rodwell was kidnapped in December last year by six gunmen disguised as policemen at his house in the seaside town of Ipil in Zamboanga Sibugay. He was reported by the police and military to have been brought to Basilan province, just several nautical miles from here, and also in Zamboanga Peninsula. |
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| With Pantawid, other programs were also implemented in the said District, such as the Kalahi-CIDSS program, which employs a community-driven development scheme where local government units and the barangay people come together in identifying the needs of the community.
| | Authorities have not reported much on the progress of the operation to rescue Rodwell except that the kidnappers have been moving the former Sydney man from one hideout to another to avoid detection by the military. |
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| With pooled finances from the municipal and barangay units, DSWD, through the support of World Bank, complements the project with needed funding and technical assistance. However, the members of the barangay adopt a sense of responsibility over the project and look after its maintenance as part of their contribution and embodied upon the memorandum of agreement entered with DSWD. To date, KALAHI had disbursed a total of P18.5 million for sub-projects in Mabuhay and Payao municipalities.
| | The kidnappers have demanded $2 million ransom for the release of Rodwell who married a Filipina, Miraflor Gutang, 27, last year in Ipil town. Both the Philippine and Australian governments rejected any ransom payment to the Abu Sayyaf. |
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| SEA-K or Self-Employment Assistance for Kaunlaran, the livelihood program of DSWD had also shelled out P2 million for capital assistance to 120 beneficiaries to finance micro-enterprises. The program enables the poor to have access to credit, promote entrepreneurship with the main goal of increasing their income. Since majority of the beneficiaries are from coastal areas, most of them are engaged in dried fish vending, agar-agar farming, and buy and sell of marine products.
| | Zamboanga Sibugay Governor Rommel Jalosjos has imposed a news blackout on the Rodwell kidnapping, although the kidnappers had contacted him several times to negotiate for the safe release of the foreigner. |
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| Other agencies such as Technical Education and Skills Development Authority, Department of Health, Department of Interior and Local Government, Department of Labor and Employment provided services during the activity. The Armed Forces of the Philippines represented by Capt. Abdjuraji of the 18th Infantry Battalion also offered services like shoe repair, manicure, and therapeutic massage. However, majority of the Pantawid beneficiaries availed of the free medical and dental consultations by doctors from the different health office units who also distributed medicines.
| | The kidnappers sent photos and a video clip to Rodwell’s wife in December as proof of life, but the woman said they had no money to pay ransom. |
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| Yambao, obviously satisfied with the activity, expressed, “I hope this caravan will not be the last but a first to a series of activities bringing government services closer to the people. (JPA/NZB/CIO-PIA 9, ZBST)
| | In Basilan, Army Colonel Ricardo Visaya, the provincial military commander, said that Rodwell may have been smuggled out by the kidnappers to Zamboanga Peninsula due to their continued operations against the militant group Abu Sayyaf. |
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| To ensure that the financial subsidy is rationally utilized and be recommended for its continued release, the recipient schools are directed to conduct a yearly mentoring program to other schools within the division/region which intend to implement the same sports program.
| | “We have no information or reports about Rodwell. There last information we have on him was that he was spirited out of Basilan to Zamboanga Peninsula due to the military operations against the Abu Sayyaf,” he said. |
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| | Visaya overran the jungle base of Abu Sayyaf leader Puruji Indama in Sumisip town during a recent offensive. |
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| ==Zamboanga Sibugay Zip Codes== | | ==Zamboanga Sibugay Zip Codes== |