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==[[Lanao del Norte News]]==
==[[Lanao del Norte News]]==
'''Lechon festival draws big crowd in Iligan'''
'''Kidnapped trader in Lanao escapes from abductors'''
*Source: http://pia.gov.ph/?m=7&r=r10&id=55980
*Source: http://www.gmanews.tv/story/233402/regions/kidnapped-trader-in-lanao-escapes-from-abductors
*Saturday, September 24, 2011
*09/25/2011 | 03:03 PM
:by PIA Press Release
:by Mariz Revales/LBG, GMA News




ILIGAN CITY, Lanao del Norte, Sept. 24 (PIA) -- Thousands of residents, here, and from other places flocked to the 2nd “Indigay sa Lechon” (roasted pig competition), one of the highlights of Diyandi (gathering) festival, along Roxas Avenue, this city, last Sept. 20.
MARAWI CITY, Lanao del Norte — A businessman who was kidnapped on Saturday managed to escape from his abductors an hour after he was seized.
Melvin Anggot, City Information Officer said 60 crispy and spicy roasted pig were given free to residents and visitors by the city government and the city’s lone congressional district.
 
Anggot said, among the nine participants of the competition, Miling's Lechon of Timoga, Buruun bagged the "Best Lechon" award with Php10,000, while Amalia’s lechon was second, with Php 8,000 and Dodong's lechon was third with P7,000.
Gulam Dia Jr. was abducted in Marawi City's Barangay Marinaut West around 3 p.m., but managed to escape an hour after.
Iligan City Mayor Lawrence Lluch Cruz officially claimed “lechon” from Iligan City is the country’s most delicious roasted pig better than Cebu City.
 
Cruz said, “lechon” from Bayug and Timoga are among the best roasted pig as delicacies from Iligan City and had been sending deliveries to Manila and even abroad.
Police immediately launched a hot pursuit operation to rescue the victim, but the kidnappers managed to elude arrest.
The Mayor said the lechon is one of the so called “One Town One Product” that formed part of Iligan City’s being the number eight in the country performance in good governance.
 
Meanwhile, Congressman Vicente Belmonte Jr. of the city’s lone district., said there are three major products and delicacies that makes Iligan City well known. These are the world class Cheding Peanuts, Sukang Pinakurat and the famous lechon from Iligan City.
At around 4 p.m., the victim arrived at the Marawi City police station and reported that he was able to escape from his abductors.
Belmonte said ‘ lechon’ from Iligan gives more power to our patron saint St. Michael the Archangel who protect Iligan City and drive out evils that tends to destroy it.
 
It is also the favorite food of Señior San Miguel and that lechon from Iligan City attracts local and foreign tourists from other places. (CIO/PIA-10)
In a text message, 103rd Brigade Commander Col Dan Lucero said, “They (kidnappers) will regret what they have done. We have already identified them. We encourage the family of the victim to file charges."
 
He said the victim's family refuses to give the ransom amount the abductors demanded.
 
The kidnapping incident happened days after the Philippine National Police (PNP) sent Special Action Force (SAF) commandos to the city to help reactivate police-military Joint Task Force (JTF) Ranao against kidnap-for-ransom gangs.
 
The SAF will be part of the police component along with the Regional Public Safety Battalions of Police Regional Office 12 and the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao.
 
President Aquino ordered the reactivation of Task Force Ranao last May. Chief Superintendent Francisco Cristobal, Deputy Director for Integrated Police Operations in Western Mindanao, was named Task Force commander with Col. Daniel Lucero, Commander of the Army’s 103rd Brigade, as his deputy.


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