Finally, the Kidnapping ordeal of Ces Drilon, Jimmy Encarnacion, Angelo Valderama and Professor Octavio Dinampo is now over and they are all being freed by the Abu sayaff rebels. But one thing I have in mind after this whole scenario, the incident would have been not happened if the Gloria administration didn’t spoiled the rebels, and continued the all out war against the Abusayaff and MILF rebels that President Estrada started on his term, and focus on the improvement of Mindanao.
I don’t really think that war is the only answer to this problem, I understand why there are rebels in the country, specially in Mindanao, because I am from Mindanao and I can feel the unfairness that this Government been doing to Mindanao. If you only grew up or lived here for a long time, you will understand why we felt unfair and unjust. Though I am living in a peaceful and booming city of Cagayan de Oro but still I can feel that we are being tagged as the “Third Class Citizen” of this country. Anyway, I express strong disapproval of the kidnapping acts of the Abu Sayaff to ABS-CBN News team and Professor Octavio Dinampo, but I would want to let the government know that the people here in Mindanao were in the low morale everytime we hear political problems and national problems that only focuses in Metro Manila area. Because the real problem that they have to focus are here, and to the other far places in the Philippines that the Government are fail to see.
I am happy that the ABS-CBN television news icon Ces Drilon and her team are now free from the kidnappers. We proved to them that kidnapping is not the solution of the problem, and I hope that the government will look at the problem here in Mindanao and give solutions to the poverty problem here, so that the people will not easily get brainwashed of how pathetic and greedy the government we have right now, which is partly right.
So, I hope that this will be the last kidnapping incident we have here and people in Mindanao will be treated as the same class of the people in other parts of the country.
