By Nora Soriño
Iligan City Bureau Chief
Iligan City — The wife of slain Maute leader Omarkhayam Maute claimed she did not know who brought her to this city.
This was according to the city police chief, Senior Supt. Leony Roy Ga after they arrested Minhati Madrais, 36, Sunday morning at Steel Makers Village, Tubod, here.
It was learned that the Malaysian woman could not speak the dialect but could speak English. She was arrested by the police Sunday based on an arrest, search, and seizure order from the Department of National Defense.
Joint operatives of the regional PNP, Iligan police and Joint Task Force Ranao launched the operations based on the information on the presence of “a certain @Baby” in the house.
The report said @Baby was “included in the list under Arrest, Search n Seizure Order (ASSO) 1.”
What was actually issued on May 29 by Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana, the martial law administrator, was Arrest Order No. 1 for alleged rebellion, pursuant to Proclamation 216 dated May 23 which placed Mindanao’s 27 provinces and 33 cities under martial law.
The “ASSO” was used during martial law under then President Ferdinand Marcos.
Found on her possession were four blasting caps, two detonating cords, and a fuse.
Ga said they will charge her with illegal possession of firearms and she will be investigated for her possible links to the Maute group.
Her husband, Omar, was reported killed along with Isnilon Hapilon of the Abu Sayyaf during military operations in Marawi City on Oct. 16.
Her six children are presently under the custody of the police, in coordination with the Department of Social Welfare and Services, Ga said.
Four of them are girls with ages six, seven, 10, and 12 and boys with ages of nine months and another, at two years old.
Ga said they learned that she and Maute were classmates in Egypt and she entered the country between the years 2012 and 2016.
The United States’ Federal Bureau of Investigation had confirmed on Oct. 21 that the DNA sample from a body recovered by the Philippine military in the battlefield in Marawi “matches that of Isnilon Hapilon,” the “Emir” of the Isis in East Asia.
There has been no confirmation as yet on the DNA sampling taken from the body identified in photographs dispatched by the military as Omar Maute. (with reports from mindanews)
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