“Huwag nyo naman sabihin na Muslim ang nag-trabaho nyan (Don’t say that Muslims were behind it),” Olamit said.
“The MNLF in the city is monitoring and gathering information, even closely guarding the communities to determine the perpetrators,” he said.
Olamit said they are also gathering information from other MNLF camps to identify which groups are going in and out of Mindanao and who among these are members of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Syria (ISIS) who may have infiltrated the island.
He blamed the entry of the ISIS group in Mindanao to the current and previous administrations for failing to implement the Tripoli Agreement of 1976 that would have addressed the conflict in Mindanao.
“The government is the author of the ‘divide and rule’,” Olamit said.
He said there are still three remaining unfulfilled agreements – territory, provisionary government, and revenue sharing of natural resources.
The vehicle that was bombed by still unidentified perpetrators was driven German Daag. His injured aide, Tatat Besanez, was brought to Southern Philippines Medical Center (SPMC) after sustaining minor injuries.[]
A staff of the van terminal, who refused to be named for lack of authority to speak on the incident, told reporters that there were two passengers who disembarked just outside the SM van terminal and two more got off in the terminal.
According to her, one of the passengers left a blue bag that contained the bomb. The aide tried to surrender the bag to the management for safekeeping but this was not allowed as a company policy, so the two brought the bag as they left the terminal premises, she said.[]
