Cops replace 200 teachers as members of BEI in five Lanao Sur towns

FINAL TESTING. A technician from Smartmatic checks the Vote Counting Machine (VCM) together with policemen and poll watchers at the Lanao del Sur provincial gym in Marawi City, on Sunday, May 8, 2016. Some 200 policemen will take up poll duties to replace teachers who expressed fear of violence during the election on Monday. MindaNews photo by FROILAN GALLARDO — FINAL TESTING. A technician from Smartmatic checks the Vote Counting Machine (VCM) together with policemen and poll watchers at the Lanao del Sur provincial gym in Marawi City, on Sunday. Some 200 policemen will take up poll duties to replace teachers who expressed fear of violence during the election on Monday. MindaNews photo by FROILAN GALLARDO

By FROILAN GALLARDO, MindaNews

MARAWI City — Fearing for their lives, 200 teachers from five municipalities in Lanao del Sur are boycotting their poll duty on Monday, prompting the Commission on Elections to deploy policemen to replace them.

Senior Insp. Barlowe Espiga said they are fielding 200 policemen to replace the teachers who will not be reporting tomorrow as members of the Board of Election Inspectors (BEI) in the municipalities of Butig, Maguing, Sultan Dumalondong and Bacolod-Kalawe in Lanao del Sur.

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