Lanao Sur makes history: No failure of elections
Commission on Elections (Comelec) Chairman Sixto Brillantes Jr. was a happy bearer of good news on Wednesday: Balloting actually took place on Monday in Lanao del Sur.
Commission on Elections (Comelec) Chairman Sixto Brillantes Jr. was a happy bearer of good news on Wednesday: Balloting actually took place on Monday in Lanao del Sur.
A person was killed while 23 others were injured in violence committed during Election Day in Lanao del Sur. Local election monitors said that when compared to the extent of election violence in the past elections, Monday’s balloting in the province could be considered tame.
Some polling centers in villages in lakeside Taraka town in Lanao del Sur has not opened due to floods.
A grenade was hurled at a house in Manila owned by a candidate running for mayor in Mindanao before dawn Thursday, police said, but added that no one was hurt.
The Philippine National Police (PNP) said over a hundred of its men will be trained to work as special Board of Election Inspectors (BEI) in a province at the Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao following the refusal of teachers there to work on the day of elections.
Emotions ran high in four Lanao del Norte towns and three in Lanao del Sur as relatives on Saturday buried 12 persons who were killed when armed men ambushed the campaign team of Nunungan, Lanao del Norte, Mayor Abdulmalik Manamparan on Thursday.
Saying the defendant was convicted on mere circumstantial evidence that could not establish his guilt beyond reasonable doubt, the Supreme Court acquitted a farmhand sentenced to prison for the rape and murder of an 8-year-old girl in Lanao del Sur 15 years ago.
The Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao has announced the suspension of classes in all levels in Lanao del Sur and Maguindanao on Tuesday as Typhoon “Pablo” hit land.
The leader of the Rasuman group, an investment scam firm in Lanao Del Sur, was arrested Tuesday by joint police and National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) operatives in Marawi City.
Violence could explode any time in Lanao del Sur, including this city, as people who invested and lost money in the so-called Rasuman financial scheme are getting restive, authorities said yesterday.
BEFORE the multibillion-peso Aman Futures pyramiding scam, there was an even bigger fraudulent moneymaking scheme in the south, according to the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI).
The number of would-be voters in Lanao del Sur is now 16 percent smaller than the 522,000 previously registered and the new list is expected to be trimmed down some more when minors and multiple-registrants are eliminated, the Commission on Elections has announced.
Elections Commissioner Armando Velasco, who oversees the general registration in Lanao del Sur, has placed the municipal hall of Lumbaca-Unayan under the control of the Commission on Elections (Comelec) following threats of more violence that could disrupt the voter list-up.
