NPA REBEL YIELDS. New People’s Army fighter Rubin Enlab Daano (right), of the NPA’s Western Mindanao Regional Party Committee, hands over a shotgun following his surrender Tuesday (May 31, 2022) in Josefina, Zamboanga del Sur. Daano decided to surrender following intensified operations against communist rebels in the Zamboanga Peninsula. (Photo courtesy of the Naval Forces Western Mindanao)
ZAMBOANGA CITY – A New People’s Army (NPA) rebel surrendered amid an intelligence-driven law enforcement operation by government operatives against NPA remnants in Zamboanga del Sur, a top military official said Friday.
Rear Adm. Toribio Adaci Jr., commander of the Naval Forces Western Mindanao (NFWM), said Rubin Enlab Daano yielded to authorities Tuesday in Josefina, Zamboanga del Sur.
Adaci said Daano, of Barangay Dilud, Dumingag, Zamboanga del Sur, was recruited into the NPA by Rolando Maglasang.
Daano served as lookout and courier of the Barrio Revolutionary Committee under the NPA Guerrilla Front Big Beautiful Country of the Western Mindanao Regional Party Committee.
He was also a member of Salabukan No’k G’taw Subanen, one of the underground mass organizations of the NPA in the Zamboanga Peninsula, Adaci said.
Daano, who handed over a shotgun and a grenade, took his oath of allegiance in the presence of Josefina town officials, police, military, and operatives of the National Intelligence Coordinating Agency.
Gen. Andres Centino, the Armed Forces of the Philippines chief-of-staff, who was in Zamboanga del Sur Wednesday, commended the troops for carrying out successful operations against the NPA in the Zamboanga Peninsula.
Since January this year, some 615 NPA and other terror group members either surrendered or were neutralized by government troops in the region.
The Communist Party of the Philippines-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 Anti-Terrorism Council also formally designated the National Democratic Front as a terrorist organization on June 23, 2021, citing it as “an integral and inseparable part” of the CPP-NPA that was created in April 1973. (PNA)
