SUBIC BAY — President Rodrigo Duterte said on Sunday that he has accepted the offer of Moro National Liberation Front founding chairman Nur Misuari for 2,000 of his men to join the fight against IS-linked terrorists in Marawi City. He said Misuari offered his “able-bodied” troops to fight with the government when they talked late Saturday night. “I accepted the offer,” the President said aboard the Japanese warship JS Izumo during a press briefing after his visit. You just surrender and I’ll give you the houses and I will expand the land reform program of the government. Duterte said he could take in the rank-and-file members of the NPA and give them an equivalent rank in the military.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer June 04, 2017 13:07 UTC