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==Troops beef up security in South Cotabato mining areas== | |||
*Source: http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?idn=2&sid=&nid=2&rid=378952 | |||
*October 13, 2011, 5:25 pm | |||
:by (PNA) | |||
DCT/FFC/AVE | |||
GENERAL SANTOS CITY, Oct. 13 (PNA) – Government troops operating in South Cotabato province beefed their presence in several mining areas in the wake of last week’s daring attacks by communist rebels on mining firms in Surigao del Norte. | |||
Lt. Col. Alexis Noel Bravo, commander of the Army’s 27th Infantry Battalion (IB), said Thursday they assigned additional troops to help secure the operations and vital facilities of several mining companies that are presently based in the province. | |||
“Mining companies are always potential targets of the NPA (New People’s Amy) as we’ve seen in Surigao. So we’ve taken up some security measures to prevent similar incidents from happening within our area of responsibility,” Bravo said. | |||
The Army’s 27th IB “area of responsibility” covers the entire province of South Cotabato and portions of Sultan Kudarat and Davao del Sur provinces. | |||
The mining operations in the province are mainly based in the municipalities of Tampakan, T’boli and Lake Sebu towns. | |||
Foreign-backed Sagittarius Mines Inc. (SMI) is currently exploring the mountains of Tampakan and nearby towns of Kiblawan in Davao del Sur and Columbio in Sultan Kudarat for its proposed large-scale copper and gold mining operations in the area. | |||
Canadian-backed Tribal Mining Corporation is operating a gold and silver mining venture in T’boli town while conglomerate San Miguel Corporation is currently working on a coal mining project in the mountains of Lake Sebu town. | |||
Bravo said they are currently reviewing the security plans and related arrangements employed by mining firms in the area. | |||
He said they are mainly concerned with the security arrangements for the employees and facilities of the mining companies. | |||
He said they were also closely coordinating mining company officials to check whether they received any extortion demands from NPA rebels. | |||
“So far, it’s been negative. We have not received any report regarding movements by the NPA within our mining areas here in the past several weeks,” the official said. | |||
On Monday last week, an estimated 300 NPA rebels attacked various facilities in Surigao del Norte of mining firm Nickel Asia Corp, the country’s largest nickel producer and partly owned by Sumitomo Metal Mining Co. Ltd., that left a reported damage of P500 million. | |||
Several years ago, NPA rebels also launched several attacks on the facilities and heavy equipment commissioned by SMI in the mountains of Tampakan town. | |||
In one of the attacks, the rebels raided and torched the company’s main base camp in Barangay Tablu in Tampakan. | |||
But Bravo said the presence of the NPA rebels in Tampakan town has so far diminished due to their successful dismantling of the NPA’s Front 76, the main rebel from that had operated in the area. | |||
Late last month, the Armed Forces’ Eastern Mindanao Command turned over the lead role of the internal security efforts to the provincial government of South Cotabato following the “clearing” of the communist rebels from the area. | |||
“Right now, we have one rifle platoon deployed in Tampakan to secure everyone there and not only SMI,” Bravo added. | |||
==Cotabato City Central Pilot School to receive 45 schoolhouses from Aboitiz Group== | ==Cotabato City Central Pilot School to receive 45 schoolhouses from Aboitiz Group== | ||
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“We, at the Aboitiz Group are very happy with this donation. We are glad to be of service to our community. Certainly with the increasing number of pupils this project will be of great use for the welfare and education of the students especially with our pre-schoolers. Kami sa Cotabato Light at AFI ay inyong ka-AGAPP-ay,” Donjie Vertuoso spoke on behalf of Cotabato Light’s Resident Manager Crisente Ferolino. | “We, at the Aboitiz Group are very happy with this donation. We are glad to be of service to our community. Certainly with the increasing number of pupils this project will be of great use for the welfare and education of the students especially with our pre-schoolers. Kami sa Cotabato Light at AFI ay inyong ka-AGAPP-ay,” Donjie Vertuoso spoke on behalf of Cotabato Light’s Resident Manager Crisente Ferolino. | ||
Present during the turnover were city councilors Hadji Abdullah Andang and Graham Nasser Dumama; DepEd 12 Superintendent Dr. Melinda Maruhom; Admin Officer V- Johnny Balawag; CLPC CSR Team headed by Anna Lea Lee Nataño, Project Engineer Anthony Bueno and other officers who made the nationwide project possible. (dannyescabarte/mpprudente/PIA General Santos City/CTA) | Present during the turnover were city councilors Hadji Abdullah Andang and Graham Nasser Dumama; DepEd 12 Superintendent Dr. Melinda Maruhom; Admin Officer V- Johnny Balawag; CLPC CSR Team headed by Anna Lea Lee Nataño, Project Engineer Anthony Bueno and other officers who made the nationwide project possible. (dannyescabarte/mpprudente/PIA General Santos City/CTA) | ||
==Flashfloods displace 61 families, damage 6 houses in GenSan== | ==Flashfloods displace 61 families, damage 6 houses in GenSan== | ||