DAVAO CITY: After 28 days in captivity, Compostela Valley Provincial Jail warden Jose Mermen Coquilla finally walked free from his captors, the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP).
The release, according to Rubi del Mundo, a spokesman for the New People’s Army, is for humanitarian and political reasons. Coquilla’s wife is a cancer patient and has continuously asked the rebels to let her husband go.
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