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Makati extends aid to 19 SAF members

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The Makati City government has extended P190,000 in financial assistance to the 19 members of the Special Action Force, who also took part in the Jan. 25 bloody operation in Mamasapano, Maguindanao.

Mayor Jejomar Erwin Binay led the distribution of financial assistance to the 19 members of the SAF – 84th Seaborne Company last Tuesday at the Makati City Hall. He added the 19 police commandos, whose names were withheld upon their request, each received a P100,000-check.

“They should not become the Forgotten 19,” said Binay. “These 19 valiant members of SAF 84th Seaborne Company also deserve our recognition and gratitude for having risked their lives to capture known terrorists and thereby save innocent lives. This is the least we can do to show our appreciation of their dedication to duty.”

 On Feb. 18, Vice President Jejomar Binay and Makati City government officials distributed P440,000 financial assistance to the families of the 44 police commandos killed in the bloody encounter with suspected members of the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters and Moro Islamic Liberation Front in Mamasapano.

Apart from the P100,000 financial help, the families also got a P300,000 worth of house and lot courtesy of the National Housing Authority through the initiative of the Vice President, who is also chairman of the Housing and Urban Development Coordinating Council.

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The city government also offered college scholarship at the city-run University of Makati (UMak) to the children or siblings of the slain policemen.

Last February 8, the Binay family also visited and gave P100,000 each to the 15 wounded troopers of the PNP-SAF who survived the mission to hunt down two terrorists.

Some of the families are thankful for what Makati city government and other agencies have given to them but they said the most important thing to them is justice for the fallen policemen.

They said due process is moving slowly despite numerous videos circulated on television and the social media proving what really transpired on that day.

The affected families also said both President Benigno Aquino III and resigned National Police chief Alan Purisima should admit their involvement and be meted out punishments.

The SAF operatives went to Mamasapano on Jan. 25 to serve an arrest warrant against suspected Malaysian terrorist Zulkifli bin Hir, alias Manwar, and Filipino bomb-maker Basit Usman when they were attacked by suspected BIFF and MILF men.

A total of 392 elements of the PNP-SAF were involved in the operation, of whom 44 were killed and 15 were wounded.

 

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