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COTABATO CITY – Completing education is dream come
true for a 66 year-old mother who despite her difficulty in speaking managed to
complete her junior high school at a state-run institution here.

And her graduation march went viral after a school mate posted her photos on Facebook. As of Wednesday, the 39,484 likes and
31,019 likes.

A dream come true, how sweet it is marching on
stage, Amina Akmad, more known as Milet, of Barangay Bagua, Cotabato City, said
in Filipino.

GEN. SANTOS CITY -- Cops in Region
12 are being prepared for upcoming May 14 2018 Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan
Election (BSKE).

Chief Superintendent Marcelo C Morales, the
Regional Director (RD) of Police Regional Office 12 said in a statement that
all PNP personnel in R-12 are being readied for the entire election period
which will run April 14, 2018 to May 21, 2018.

COTABATO CITY – Joint operatives of Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (PDEA-ARMM) and police operatives arrested Thursday in Marawi City a big time drug peddler and seized P1 million worth of shabu.PDEA-ARMM Regional Director Juvenal Azurin said Arab Malawani Macaombang was arrested during drug buy bust operation at 1:30 p.m. inside the state-run Mindanao State University (MSU) campus.Seized from him were two jumbo pack of shabu, P1,000 marked money and P1,000 peso bill on top of boodle money.

GEN. SANTOS CITY – A police officer
assigned in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) who went on Absence
Without Official Leave (AWOL) and in President Duterte’s drug watch list
voluntarily surrendered to police in Sultan Kudarat province.

Supt. Aldrin Gonzales, chief
information officer of PRO-12, identified the officer as Jaiton Kulat Camsa,
allegedly leader of Top Gun Drug Group operating in Sultan Kudarat and
Maguindanao.

PRESS STATEMENT FROM COTABATO LIGHT Cotabato Light and PowerCompany(Cotabato Light) will be available to serve its customers on April 13, 2018, Friday, declared as a legal non-working holiday in observance of Izra Wal Miraj.CLPC's full service centers at Sinsuat Avenue, Cotabato City will be open from 8and00 AM to 4and00 PM with no noon break. Meanwhile, forpayment options, customer can proceed to Cotabato Light's different TPA agents - ECPAY, Cebuana, CIS Bayad Center, Mlhuillier and SAVEMORE (CityMall).

NORTH COTABATO - Thirty four members of the New People’s Army surrendered to the military Tuesday.The rebels yielded to the Army’s 19thInfantry Battalion based in the hinterland Magpet town in North Cotabato.They agreed to return to the fold of law through the joint intercession of the commander of the 19thIB, Lt. Col.

KIDAPAWAN CITY – The New Peoples’ Army (NPA) operating in North Cotabato and Bukidnon provinces admitted killing a leader of the indigenous peoples (IP) in Magpet town for his alleged active participation in intelligence gathering and military offensives against the rebel movement.Ka Isabel Santiago, spokesperson for the Mount Apo Sub-Regional Command of the NPA Southern Mindanao Region, said they meted out what they termed as ‘revolutionary justice’ against Antonio P.

COTABATO CITY – A 35-year old woman was hurt when a pillbox with cut tie wire as shrapnellanded and exploded
near her in Barangay Rosary Heights 2, this city Sunday night.

Lt. Colonel
Gerry Besana, chief of the 6th Infantry Division Civil Military
Operations, said the blast occurred at 7 p.m. in a residential area under a DapDap
fly over.

Citing spot
report, Besana said a hard object landed at the roof of Jessie Himya’s
residence located under the flyover.

Cotabato Light and Power Company (Cotabato Light) will be available to serve its customers on April 9, 2018, Monday, declared as a legal non-working holiday in celebration of the Araw ng Kagitingan. CLPC's full service centers at Sinsuat Avenue, Cotabato City will be open from 8and00 AM to 4and00 PM. Meanwhile, forpayment options, customer can proceed to Cotabato Light's different TPA agents - ECPAY, Cebuana, CIS Bayad Center, Mlhuillier and SAVEMORE (CityMall). For light troubles and immediate assistance, please call our CLPC Customer Service Hotline @ 520-2572.

MAGUINDANAO --- A group of vigilant Moro residents in Shariff Aguak shall receive incentives for preventing what could have been a bloody bomb attack in the municipality on Friday night.Two of the four men who were to carry out the plot were arrested immediately by civilian volunteers led by Shariff Aguak Vice Mayor Hadji Akmad Ampatuan, acting on a tip by watchful constituents.Esmael Abdulkarim, 44, and his 52-year-old accomplice, Boy Kamid, are now in the custody of the Shariff Aguak municipal police, undergoing tactical questioning on their group affiliation and their real motive for the