{"id":128810,"date":"2017-11-06T04:06:25","date_gmt":"2017-11-06T09:06:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=128810"},"modified":"2017-11-06T04:06:25","modified_gmt":"2017-11-06T09:06:25","slug":"almost-p4-b-spent-in-marawi-city-battle-lorenzana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/11\/06\/almost-p4-b-spent-in-marawi-city-battle-lorenzana\/","title":{"rendered":"Almost P4-B spent in Marawi City battle: Lorenzana"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_80115\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-80115\" style=\"width: 2843px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/160822131217.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-80115\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/160822131217.jpg\" alt=\"FILE: DND Secretary Delfin Lorenzana. (Photo: Joey Razon\/PNA)\" width=\"2843\" height=\"1600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/160822131217.jpg 2843w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/160822131217-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/160822131217-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/160822131217-1024x576.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2843px) 100vw, 2843px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-80115\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE: DND Secretary Delfin Lorenzana. (Photo: Joey Razon\/PNA)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA\u2014\u00a0<\/strong>The government had spent an estimated PHP4 billion in the five-month battle to liberate Marawi City from the clutches of the Maute Group terrorists.<\/p>\n<p>This was bared by Department of National Defense (DND) Secretary Delfin Lorenzana during the sidelines of the DND&#8217;s 78th founding anniversary Monday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Walang akong figures ngayon but last time (I don&#8217;t have figures now but last time), I think (total expenses) is close to PHP4 billion,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>This sum includes expenditures in ammunition, fuel, food, medicines and other combat necessities of the Army, Air Force and Navy.<\/p>\n<p>Fighting in Marawi City started when government troops tried to arrest Abu Sayyaf leader and ISIS Emir in Southeast Asia, Isnilon Hapilon, last May 23.<\/p>\n<p>It was declared over last October 23 following the death of Hapilon and Omar Maute, one of the founders of the terror group.<\/p>\n<p>The fighting killed an estimated 923 Maute terorrists and their allies, including three stragglers last week, and 165 government troops aside from costing billions in infrastructure damage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u2014\u00a0The government had spent an estimated PHP4 billion in the five-month battle to liberate Marawi City from the clutches of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":80115,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[31423,31424],"class_list":["post-128810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ph","tag-almost-p4-b-spent-in-marawi-city-battle-lorenzana","tag-php4-billion","mauthors-joyce-ann-l-rocamora","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128810\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}