Saturday, October 04, 2008 MILF enticing recruits with P10k per month pay? By Carlo P. Mallo
THE Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) is allegedly enticing residents of Barangay Inawayan in Sta. Cruz, Davao del Sur to join its ranks with a promise of P10,000 a month salary, or so the military said.
Despite the money offer, no resident has taken up the invitation.
"They were saying that they will be given P10,000 per month, but no one believed," said Lieutenant Colonel Lyndon Paniza, chief of the Army's 39th IB operating in the area of Santa Cruz, Davao del Sur, and Toril District, Davao City.
This developed amid reports that MILF members in Davao del Sur and Davao Oriental camps have been recruiting locals.
Both the military and police are now closely monitoring the two base camps of the MILF in Southern Mindanao not just because of the recruitment activities, but to make sure that the two base camps, which have been reportedly inactive in the past couple of months, will not be used by lawless members of the MILF to perpetrate atrocities in the region.
