President Rodrigo Duterte expressed no plans of talking to former Marawi City Mayor Solitario Ali, who has been ordered arrested along with his brother for supporting rebellion and being spies of Maute group and Abu Sayyaf group.
Speaking to troops at Sultan Kudarat town in Maguindanao, Duterte said that the former Marawi mayor tried to talk to him but instead referred him to Peace Process Secretary Jesus Dureza, asking him first to clear his name.
“Solitario called me up,” Duterte said. “Son of a bitch, what’s up with you? Are you a friend of the government or are we foes? I said: ‘Lorenzana wants you arrested. Son of a bitch, I will really have you killed’.”
Solitario is the brother of former Marawi City mayor Sultan Fahad “Pre” Salic, who was arrested by security forces at a police checkpoint in Misamis Oriental last Wednesday.
Fahad is married to Rasmia, niece of the captured Maute matriarch Ominta Romato “Farhana” Maute whose sons were involved in the armed skirmishes in the country’s south.
Duterte told Solitario not to show himself to government forces because he would really be nabbed and he might be killed.
If Solitario would be able to clear his name and show he had no hand in the Marawi incident, that would be the only time he would talk to him, the President said.
The Salic brothers were among 230 individuals ordered for arrest by the Department of National Defense for alleged involvement in already three-week siege.
