‘Duterte serious on bounty for killed NPAs

As part of his heightened crackdown on communist insurgency in the country, President Rodrigo Duterte is bent on offering monetary rewards to soldiers for killing New People’s Army (NPA) members, a Palace official said.

In a television interview, Presidential Communications Secretary Martin Andanar said Duterte was “serious” about the bounty offer, saying this was part of a “psy-war” following the pronouncement of Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) founder Jose Maria Sison that their 50 guerilla fronts would kill one soldier a day.