‘I’ll free ASG victims’

Davao City – President-elect Rodrigo Duterte vowed to work for the release of the remaining foreign nationals and a Filipina kidnapped by armed men from the Island Garden City of Samal held captive by the Abu Sayyaf, in a midnight press conference Wednesday. Duterte said he already has his plans for the Abu Sayyaf which he will put it into action once he assumes the presidency. “I have something in my mind but nobody would be privy to that except the military and police. I intend to do it when I am there in the Office of the President,” he said. The latest video released by the Abu Sayyaf showed Samal kidnap victims Canadian Robert Hall and his Filipina girlfriend Marites Flor, and Norwegian Kjartan Sekkingstad appealing for Duterte’s help. “We have a hundred people heavily armed around us all the time that dictate to us and talk to us [...]