[NEWSINFO.INQUIRER.NET] With the fighting in Marawi City expected to be over soon, President Duterte has directed government agencies preparing the rehabilitation plans for the war-ravaged city to pick up the pace to ensure these would be ready for implementation.
Malacañang said Mr. Duterte met with the officials of the concerned agencies in Malacañang on Wednesday and sought the completion of the plans. He also stressed the need for the continuous provision of basic needs such as food and clean water to the affected families.
The agencies represented were the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD), Department of National Defense, Housing and Urban Development Coordinating Council, Housing and Land Use Regulatory Board, National Housing Authority (NHA), Local Water Utilities Administration and Home Development Mutual Fund.
Mr. Duterte told the officials that once the fighting between government forces and pro-Islamic State (IS) extremists was over, the recovery efforts for Marawi would be a purely “civilian endeavor,” according to a Malacañang statement.
He also assured them that he would seek the realignment of the budget to provide for the needs of each department in relation to the rebuilding of Marawi.
[GMANETWORK] Some of the ulamas (Moslem scholars) who signed last Saturday a manifesto condemning the Maute group received threats from the pro-ISIS holy warriors in Marawi City.
Reporting from Marawi, dzBB's Benjie Liwanag said that 20 of the 50 ulamas in Lanao del Sur received the threat on the day they were about to sign the fatwa (manifesto) declaring the Maute group as an enemy of the Maranao people.
Part of the letter from the terrorists--written in Maranao language--reads: "...if you sign the manifesto, you will be considered a 'munafiq' or hypocrite."
Ulama Abdulhamid Umpa Amirpitor told dzBB that despite the threat, all the 50 scholars signed the fatwa.
Also, Amirpitor said that instead of being scared, the ulamas even made the rounds in Lanao del Sur to explain to the people the content of the fatwa.
A fatwa usually explains current issues in light of Islam laws, Amirpitor added.
On August 12, all the mayors and some 50 ulamas of Lanao del Sur province signed a manifesto declaring the Maute group members as enemies.
The manifesto also classifies the group under Daulah Islamiyah or Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... , an international terrorist group.
Dawla Islamiyya (Maute Terrorist Group) and its sympathizers are "enemies of the Meranao (or Maranao) People," part of the manifesto reads.
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