CAMP Alagar raised over hald a million pesos to aid strife-torn Marawi City, soldiers and police officers fighting the Maute Group through a cycling activity here on Saturday.
Some 800 cyclists from various parts of northern Mindanao gathered here to take part in the “Sikad para sa Marawi 2017” organized by the regional office of the National Police under Chief Supt. Timoteo Pacleb.
Supt. Lemuel Gonda, Camp Alagar spokesman, said the activity made the police in the region raise over P600 thousand in sponsorships and registrations.
Gonda said the proceeds would be handed over by Camp Alagar to the Department of Social and Development or Task Force Bangon Marawi primarily as aid to Maranaos displaced as a result of the fightings in Marawi.
Cyclists in Region 10, police officers, members of the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology, and officials and employees of different government offices, and representatives of private groups participated in the activity.
The participants pedalled from the sports complex on A. Velez St. to Opol, Misamis Oriental, and back, a 21-kilometer stretch.
Meanwhile, the Armed Forces vowed to exert efforts to ensure that the remaining Maute Group terrorists, now pocketed in a square-kilometer area in Marawi City, are “neutralized.”
“We are firm in ending this rebellion in Marawi, and we are going to exert all efforts within the limits and bounds of the law to get the remnants of the Daesh-inspired Maute Group,” Armed Forces public affairs office chief Edgard Arevalo said.
Surviving terrorists are estimated to be 40 to 60 as their numbers continue to be whittled down by troops. (nitz arancon)
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