Death for weapons suppliers :: Abu Sayyaf arms supplier nabbed

09/29/2016 | 1:00 0 Posted in Drugs, Local Issues, War on Drugs

Death for weapons suppliers.

The war on drugs is assuming great significance with reactions coming in from all over the world.
This list of people concerned with the deaths is overpopulated. with each passing day. The United Nations and President Obama of the United States are worried about the growing numbers.
The latest on this subject is that the government of the Philippines is taking this to the next stage. They are now planning to go after those who supply arms to the Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG).
The government’s proposal is to sentence to death the suppliers of arms to the ASG. It is the next logical step to the war on drugs and terrorism as per President Duterte’s vision.
Speaking on the subject Director General Ronald dela Rosa plans to eliminate the suppliers to the Abu Sayyaf group. The capital punishment so envisaged could be by hanging or subjecting the culprits to death by a firing squad.
Bato dela Rosa , the chief of the Philippine National Police (PNP) is losing his patience and needs visible results. He looked quite perturbed and vowed to implement his threat quite soon to achieve the desired effect.
These comments came during a press briefing at Camp Crane. Supply of arms to our enemies is a big offense and we will take care of it, he continued.
We will punish them all; whether by firing squad or by hanging, it is our responsibility to achieve results. To make matters clear, the PNP chief produced the king-pin of a gun-running syndicate, on Tuesday morning.
Unding Kenneth Isa is the leader of group that is the regular supplier of the Abu Sayyaf Group. Kenneth had with him a big cache of arms when he came to strike a deal with the ASG. The cache of high technology arms was valued at more than P 6 million.
It included:
• M-203 Grenade launchers,
• M16 rifles, and
• M14 rifles.
The arrested included Kenneth’s three other accomplices, Hja Risdimona Isa, Aljamer Akarab Mandih and Hurbin Alhi Sahibul.
The Criminal Investigation and Detection group (CIDG) seized the arms on September 24th from San Juan City. However, the others were released since the warrant was only meant for Kenneth and there was a lack of evidence against them.
The two groups are in Manila for the last one month to carry out the transactions. The ASG members had already purchased the arms as revealed by dela Rosa.
The CIDG also revealed that Kenneth Isa had run for the post of Vice Governor of Sulu but lost. Roel Obusan, Chief Supdt and Director of CIDG was not very forthcoming in divulging details.
But, dela Rosa provided all the details while promising that we will spare no efforts to nab the culprits.
Kenneth and Wahid bought the arms from Manila during July accompanied by some ASG members. The cache of arms was from the government armories as alleged by dela Rosa.
However, during investigations that followed, Kenneth did not reveal anything about the sources of the arms.
How it started
The source information that led to the arrest of Kenneth and three others on Saturday was due to source information. An informer delivered the vital information to the CIDG that the supply of arms and ammunition to the Abu Sayyaf bandits was being run by a certain Isa and Wahid. They both operated in the Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao (ARMM).
The duo were not only supplying weapons to the ASG but were also the source of arms to the drug lords and other criminal elements. The route of the weapons was also revealed to the CIDG who kept a close watch on the operations of the two arms dealers.
It seems that the origin of the weapons was Manila; the arms are procured there. Then they move the consignment to Zamboanga; from there they would go to Jolo in Sulu province.
Once they reached there, the carriers loaded them onto sports utility vehicles that caught the roll-on-roll-off ferries to their destination.
An unidentified Abu Sayyaf Commander reportedly instructed and guided them on this operation.