ZAMBOANGA CITY: More than 1,000 former members of Sulu-based Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) were recently offered by the national government, through the Office of the Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process (OPAPP), livelihood programs to help them improve their families’ living condition.

This was disclosed in a program held here early this month by MNLF Central Committee Chairman Yusop Jikiri, who reported that the former rebel combatants, led by their field commanders, earlier assembled at the MNLF main camp at coastal Barangay Pasil in Indanan town to identify particular livelihood programs offered by OPAPP Secretary Carlito Galvez Jr. who had previously flown to the area through the assistance of the Western Mindanao Command.