3 Lanao Sur mayors with alleged drug ties told: Surrender or die
COTABATO CITY, Philippines—Police in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) are hunting down three Lanao del Sur town mayors identified by police intelligence agents as allegedly involved in the illegal drugs trade.
Chief Supt. Agripino Javier, police director for the ARMM, said the mayors are considered “drug lords or illegal drug protectors.” He did not name them.
He also said some private individuals have put up P100,000 reward money for the arrest and neutralization of each of the drug lord-mayors.
“The reward did not come from the PNP but from individuals who wanted the drug lord mayors neutralized,” he told reporters.
“You better surrender or die,” he said of the town mayors.
Javier refused to say if a shoot-to-kill order was out, but said “if these mayors resist, of course the police know what to do, I expect these drug lords to have heavily armed followers.”/rga
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