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Yusoph thanks Enrile for role in son's release


Acting Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile on Friday said Election commissioner Elias Yusoph thanked him for the release of the latter’s abducted son. In a closed-door meeting, Enrile said Yusoph thanked him for his hand in the release of his 22-year-old son Nuraldin early this week. "We're happy that his son was released without any harm done to him," Enrile told reporters after the meeting. Enrile refused to tell the media what exactly was his role in the release of Yusoph's son. The commissioner was not available to give comments on the senator’s claims. But Enrile said he had handled similar cases in the past, and that his experiences have taught him what to do in such situations. "Marami akong kinausap, lalo na mga pulis, defense department, military, pinagtulung-tulungan yan (I talked to a lot of people, especially the police, the defense department, the military, many people helped)," he said. He said he told the police and the military to use the Human Security Act of 2007, which allows them to arrest terror suspects without warrants and temporarily detain them without charges. "In the beginning they were not aware they can use the Human Security Act (but) I said juice it," he said. Enrile noted, however, that the release was not just his doing, and that government forces did everything it could. "They were doing their job. I would like to commend the people who handled it," he said. He also said that "more or less" he knows who the culprits were, though he refused to say identify them. Nuraldin was abducted inside a mosque in Marawi City last June 20 by unidentified men who reportedly sought the nullification of certain votes in Lanao del Sur. He is the sixth of Yusoph's 10 children. — LBG/RSJ, GMANews.TV

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