MORE WARRANTS. Police officers serve on Tuesday (Aug. 30, 2022) additional warrants of arrest against Mujir Ahaddi Yada (right), 55, who was detained at the Sulu provincial jail for multiple kidnapping, murder, and frustrated murder charges. The additional warrants served against Yada are for similar offenses, including illegal possession of an explosive. (Photo courtesy of CIDG-9)
ZAMBOANGA CITY – A leader of the Sulu-based Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) detained at the provincial jail for multiple cases of kidnapping, murder, and frustrated murder received additional warrants for similar criminal offenses, a police official said Wednesday.
Col. John Francis Encinareal, Criminal Investigation and Detection Group-Zamboanga Peninsula (CIDG-9) chief, said the warrant issued against Mujir Ahaddi Yada, 55, was for multiple murder, multiple frustrated murder, and illegal possession of explosive used in the commission of multiple frustrated murder.
Encinareal said a police team served the additional warrant of arrest against Yada around 10:21 a.m. Tuesday at the Sulu provincial jail in Barangay Bangkal, Patikul town.
He said Yada was involved in a series of kidnappings of both foreigners and Filipinos, and bombings in Sulu.
Two of the Filipino victims were policewomen who were kidnapped along with two other Filipinos on April 29, 2018 in Barangay Liang, Patikul, Sulu.
Yada was detained at the Sulu provincial jail along with his brother, Ben Ahaddi Quirino, 41, after they surrendered to the Army's 11th Infantry Division in June this year.
The two brothers had been tagged as responsible for the killing of two Canadian hostages in 2016 after a huge ransom demand was not paid.
The Canadian hostages were seized by the ASG bandits from an upscale resort on Samal Island, Davao del Norte, in 2015 and took them to the hinterlands of Sulu.
Encinareal said the CIDG Provincial Field Unit had previously served a warrant of arrest against Yada on June 17, 2022.
He said the CIDG initiated the filing of cases against Yada that resulted in the issuance of the arrest warrants. (PNA)
