A number of former service men from the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) and the Philippine National Police (PNP) work as security specialists with US companies Dyn-International and Triple Canopy, entities contracted by the Security Operations Center.
The security specialists are paid anywhere from $2,500 to $3,000 or P107,500 to P129,000 a month, according to Geslani.
Geslani said the employers of majority of Filipinos there have set up their own evacuation plans should ISIL forces succeed in penetrating Baghdad.
"Some OFWs are also in Basra south of Baghdad connected with oil drilling companies who feel that they are very safe in that area, and say that is not necessary for them to leave their job sites," he added.
The rest of the OFWs are in Erbil, Kurdistan, working in hotels and companies where the situation is calm and very progressive. In contrast to the rest of Iraq, only the alert level 2 or Restriction Phase was imposed over Iraqi Kurdistan Region.
"Based on [reactions of] the OFWs that I have spoken to, I am not overly optimistic that the DFA can convince those OFWs still in Baghdad to come home," Geslani said.
The DFA last week raised the Crisis Alert Level to 4, or mandatory repatriation, in Baghdad due to growing security threats there.
The deployment of Filipino workers to Kurdistan has also been partially banned, according to the Department of Labor and Employment.
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