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NPA info officer yields in Zambo Sur

By Teofilo Garcia, Jr.

March 18, 2022, 3:47 pm

ZAMBOANGA CITY – A New People’s Army (NPA) guerrilla has surrendered to government authorities on March 17, bringing to six the total of NPA surrenderers this month alone in Zamboanga del Sur.

Col. Diomarie Albarico, Zamboanga del Sur police director, identified Friday the latest NPA surrenderer as Romeo Macalisang Jr. alias Ka Dodo, 42, of Barangay Gumahan, Josefina.

Albarico said Macalisang gave himself up around 10 a.m. Thursday at the Josefina municipal police station, accompanied by policemen, soldiers, and personnel of the National Intelligence Coordinating Agency (NICA).

Macalisang is the designated information officer of the Regional Urban Committee (RUC) of the NPA’s Western Mindanao Regional Party Committee (WMRPC), Albarico said.

He said Macalisang, who was recruited by his uncle, also served as lookout and courier of the NPA’s Guerilla Front Joji.

After his surrender, Macalisang took an oath of allegiance to the government as administered by Josefina Councilor Eulogio Moñeza, chairperson of the municipal council’s Committee on Peace and Order.

Macalisang was placed under the custody of the Josefina municipality for his eventual community reintegration.

Albarico said three other NPA members surrendered to them on March 8 while the other two on March 10.

The Communist Party of the Philippines-NPA (CPP-NPA) is listed as a terrorist organization by the United States, the European Union, the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the Philippines.

The National Democratic Front has been formally designated as a terrorist organization by the Anti-Terrorism Council on June 23, 2021, citing it as “an integral and inseparable part” of the CPP-NPA created in April 1973. (PNA)

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