– The Bangsamoro region’s Ministry of Environment, Natural Resources, and Energy will recruit former fighters of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front as forest rangers to implement the government’s greening program in the region.
Macacua is more known as “Sammy Gambal Almansoor,” his pseudonym as chief of staff of the MILF’s Bangsamoro Islamic Armed Forces , which Ebrahim once headed before their central committee named him MILF chairman a few weeks after founding chieftain Ustadz Salamat Hashim passed away on July 13, 2003. The greening program in the region has a total allocation next year of P300-million covering planting and protecting trees in 6,600-hectare mountain areas in Maguindanao alone for next year, he said.
Higher authorities led by President Duterte officially decommissioned 1,060 BIAF fighters and their 920 firearms in formal ceremonies last Sept. 7. Some of those decommissioned have undergone in-camp trainings alongside police and military counterparts to constitute Joint Peace and Security Teams for security details in Bangsamoro official activities and in state-recognized MILF enclaves.