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Military has no info on arms shipment announced by Duterte
Military has no info on arms shipment announced by Duterte
Jorge Cariño,
ABS-CBN News
Published Feb 27, 2018 05:08 PM PHT
President Rodrigo Duterte. File photo
MANILA - The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) on Tuesday it had no information yet on the expected arrival of a shipment of firearms that President Rodrigo Duterte earlier announced.
"Wala pa kaming information regarding this matter, wala pa kaming information regarding [this]. But as soon as we have the information, we will send it to you. We have to go thru the details of these things before we can make a statement regarding this matter" said Brig. Gen. Bienvenido Datuin, Commanding General of the AFP Civil Relations Service.
On Monday, Duterte said the Philippines would receive 5,000 firearms from a “friendly country” in the next few days, without identifying the country where the firearms would be coming from.
Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana also refused to divulge details of the shipment.
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The government earlier received 5,000 AK-74M Kalashnikov assault rifles, one-million rounds of ammunition, 20 army trucks, and 5,000 steel helmets from Russia.
The Philippines has also received P370 million worth of arms and ammunition from China.
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