Readers may recall that a "Fourth Quarter of 2011" entry outlined the BIAF 113 Base Command's KFR, or Kidnap for Ransom, of 32 year old Frank Oliver Tam Lim. The BIAF, or Bangsamoro Islamic Armed Forces, the armed wing of the MILF, sometimes funds its armed insurgency via KFR. Indeed, the 113 Base Commamd is first and foremost amongst all BIAF Base Commands in this endeavour.
Lim, a Tsinoy, or Filipino of Chinese descent, is the son and namesake of a multi-millionaire who, among other things, owns a Jollibee fastfood franchise in Pagadian City. Lim himself owns Fresh Harvest Farms, a poultry operation in Dipolog City's Barangay Gulayon. On October 27th, 2011, Lim and his brother John Patrick Tam Lim, had just left National Hiway and had turned onto the farm's dirt access road when a van full of BIAF guerillas pulled in behind them. When the Lims were forced to stop to negotiate the farm's locked gate, the guerillas dismounted and rushed the Lims. John Patrick managed to escape, running through a rice paddy, as Frank was snatched out of his front seat and dragged into oblivion.
On February 21st, 2012, Lim Clansman and the family's chosen negotiator, Wendell Lim, handed over a ransom of P600,000 ($12,000) to his BIAF counterpart and was told to wait for a phone call later that evening. Finally, at just after midnite, February 22nd, Wendell Lim was instructed to proceed to the municipality of Molave, in Zamboanga del Sur Province where he was told to sit tight and await further instructions. Arriving in Molave just before 1AM, Wendell was told to drive to the Zamboanga del Sur Electric Co-operative, known to most as ZAMSURECO. It was there, in front of the co-operative at 120AM that Frank Oliver Lim was released to his kin.
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