NPA finance officer killed in encounter

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2020 08:52:13 +0000

A top New People’s Army leader in Eastern Mindanao was killed by government troops in a shootout in Makilala, North Cotabato last Friday.

Brig. Gen. Adonis Bajao, commander of the Army 1002nd Infanty Brigade of the Armed Forces Eastern Mindanao Command, identified the fatality as Juanita Gore Tacadao, alias “Isay” and “Maring.”

Tacadao is said to be regional head of the Far South Mindanao Command of the New People’s Army.

She was also the logistics and finance head of the Makilala-based group, Bajao added.

Initial report said the Makilala police, supported by the Army 39th Infantry Battalion, were about to serve two arrest warrants against Tacadao for murder and robbery with violence against intimidation of person in her hideout in Sitio Lacobe, Barangay Malabuan when her men opened fire at the security officers.

Tacadao was killed while her security escaped d
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