An alleged sub-leader of the Abu Sayyaf Group was arrested in a joint police and military operation in Quezon City last week.
National Capital Region Police Office director Police Major Gen. Guillermo Eleazar and acting Quezon City Police District chief Police Col. Ronnie Montejo identified the suspect who was presented yesterday at the QCPD headquarters in Camp Karingal, Quezon City as Ibrahim Lambog Mullo, 26, who initially identified himself as “Agimar Abi Ahaja” to conceal his identity.
Montejo said the suspect was arrested by joint personnel of the QCPD Mobile Force Battalion, QCPD District Special Operations Unit, QCPD Station 6 (Batasan), Philippine National Police, and the Armed Forces of the Philippines- Intelligence Group.
Authorities received intelligence information that a member of the ASG was spotted in Barangay Batasan, Quezon City last Sept. 26.
The following night, a concerned citizen informed authorities that Mullo was seen at the corner of Ilang-Ilang St. and Commonwealth Ave. in Barangay Batasan with an unlicensed caliber .45 pistol inside his sling bag and a hand grenade, resulting in his arrest.
Investigation showed that Mullo arrived in Metro Manila sometime in January 2019 along with certain Arnel Cabintoy and Feliciano Sulayao Jr., who were arrested last June 2019 in Barangay Culiat, Quezon City.
Cabintoy and Sulayao, who were also alleged members of the ASG, were nabbed during the implementation of an order for the apprehension of personalities involved in the rebellion in Mindanao.
However, in an interview with Mullo, he claimed that he just moved to Quezon City from San Miguel, Bulacan where he was working in a construction firm to attend to his wife who gave birth recently. (Alexandria San Juan)
