DEFENSE Secretary Delfin Lorenzana confirmed the creation of another division that would be stationed permanently in Sulu to eliminate the Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) there “once and for all.”

Lorenzana issued the statement in an interview late Thursday at Camp Aguinaldo in Quezon City after President Rodrigo Duterte gave the order this week as the province and nearby Basilan and Tawi-Tawi were prone to attacks from the Muslim extremist group.

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