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Sunday, September 25, 2011

Lawmaker calls on police to probe Oro kidnapping


Published in the Sun.Star Cagayan de Oro newspaper

CAGAYAN de Oro Representative Rufus Rodriguez (2nd district) has called on authorities to do whatever they can to identify the suspects who abducted businessman Manny Boniao last September 19 and save him.
Rodriguez also urged police authorities to strengthen the city’s security program and come up with “good intelligence work” to prevent any similar incident in the future.
“I know Manny personally at my upper class in Xavier University. I know him as a good person and an excellent family man. I cannot imagine why this happened to him,” Rodriguez told Sun.Star Cagayan de Oro.
Rodriguez visited Boniao’s wife on Thursday to comfort her and joined her in prayers for the victim’s safe return.
As of Friday, police authorities could not reveal the gunmen who abducted Boniao inside his establishment in Barangay Gusa, Cagayan de Oro City.
Police Senior Superintendent Gerardo Rosales, chief of the Cagayan de Oro City Police Office (Cocpo), said police are still conducting pursuit operation against the five suspects.
There were reports that Boniao was brought to Lanao del Sur and that the kidnappers demanded P100 million as ransom for his safe release but Rosales said there is no confirmation yet.
Police investigation revealed that Enrique Goltiao owned the red Mitsubishi Adventure with plate number KCF-331 used by the suspects as getaway vehicle.
Goltiao, according to Rosales, bought the vehicle last September 15 from a certain Abdul Hakim Grande.
Goltiao is now the subject of investigation by police authorities.
Published in the Sun.Star Cagayan de Oro newspaper

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