Lt. Col. Harold Cabunoc, commanding officer of the 33rd Infantry Battalion, will attend a 13-year old elementary pupil Hafra Macadatar to their graduation rite at the Palumbe Elementary School in Lambayong town in Sultan Kudarat.
Cabunoc will be accompanied to the graduation program by Lt. Col. Maynard Camarao, the battalion commander of Macadatar.
“It’s an honor to stand as father of Hafra on the occasion his father, the late Tammy Macadatar, had supposedly prepared for and had wished to attend.”
The child’s father, Tamano Macadatar, a corporal in the Army’s 524th Engineer Construction Battalion, was killed by a member of the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF) in Barangay Tukanalipao in Mamasapano, Maguindanao, where he and his companions were constructing a peace and learning facility for barrio folk.
The child’s mother, Jean, is employed in Kuwait and could not attend the event.
According to Cabunoc: “Nalaman ko na wala pala pati ‘yong nanay. Eh, nakaka relate ako kasi may isa akong anak, at minsan hindi rin ako nakakapunta sa activities sa school. Alam ko ‘yong feeling ng bata kapag di ka nakaka-attend sa mga ganyang seremonya.”
“Kaya sabi ko, willing ako mag-attend.”
The suspect and his eight cohorts, were armed with assault rifles, managed to escape before responding policemen could reach the scene.
Cabunoc said that the AFP will help Macadatar’s kin by giving them scholarships.
A friend of Cabunoc, German citizen Feng Viesca, also promised to sponsor the education of one of Macadatar’s 4 children until college.
Source: philstar
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