By Jeffrey Damicog

Three suspected members of the Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) wanted for kidnapping have been arrested by the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI).

NBI spokesman Deputy Director Ferdinand Lavin identified the suspects as Ibnus Isa alias Jade, Amerudin Parasan alias Mudasier, and Abdel-Amin Bandahala alias Abu Black.

Lavin said operatives of the NBI’s Counter Terrorism Division (NBI-CTD), in cooperation with police and the military, arrested the fugitives in various operations in the past three weeks.

Operatives arrested Isa and Parasan in Taguig City on September 27 and at the Port Area in Manila on October 3, respectively.

The last to be arrested was Bandahala in Kawit, Cavite last October 11 where operatives also seized from him a .38-caliber revolver with ammunition.

Lavin said the arrests were made based on the arrest warrants issued against the three fugitives.

Three are facing charges of multiple counts of kidnapping and serious illegal detention for their involvement in the 2002 kidnapping of members of the Jehovah’s Witness in Patikul, Sulu and the 2001 kidnapping of workers of Golden Harvest in Lantawan, Basilan.

The three were among the 18 ASG members wanted for various crimes arrested by the NBI-CTD since January this year.