Military counter-insurgency and paramilitarism were continued by Otaza when he became mayor of Loreto in 2010 and has since marked his leadership. Otaza's Bagani Force and the 26th IB continued their atrocious reign through forcible arrests, fake NPA surrenders, arbitratry detention, psychological warfare, harassment, threats against the families of the NPAs even after entering an agreement brokered by Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte with the evacuees that no retaliatory attacks will be waged against them upon their return from evacuation in August 2013.