SHARIFF Aguak, Maguindanao -- The daughter of
this town's chief executive on Saturday said the grenade attacks on the
family's home was politically motivated.
Anhara Ampatuan, town councilor and serving as acting vice
mayor, said a series of gunfire followed by two grenade launcher attacks hit
the family home on Friday night.
Anhara was in the house along with other family members but
not her mother, Mayor Sahara Upam Ampatuan, who went on absence without
official leave after she was linked to the killing of a local government
employee.
Anhara, the town's number 1 councilor, assumed as acting
vice mayor after Vice Mayor Marop Ampatuan, her uncle, assumed as acting mayor
when her mother left.
Anhara said she heard a series of gun fire near her home
about 9 p.m. It was followed by grenade explosions.
Senior Inspector Jonathan Degracia, Shariff Aguak town
police chief, said nobody was hurt in the attack which occurred in the middle
of power outage in Shariff Aguak and nearby areas.
Ampatuan said it was the third time that the family's home
was subjected to attacks.
“The motive is politically motivated,” Anhara said.
"Lately, it was not only my mom but including me have
received death threats," she said.
"The text messages I received said they will get me at
all cost, even if I am inside the house or at the session hall of the
Sangguniang Bayan," the 24-year-old local official said.
"It was part of the political package that you have to
experience if you are in Maguindanao," she said without naming names
behind the attacks.
Anhara vehemently denied the accusations against her mother
and insisted it was part of political ploy to oust her.
In a phone interview, Bai Zahara said only time can tell
about the truth.
She is saddened the township she is serving has been violent
this lately despite her efforts to make it peaceful to everyone.
Last Tuesday, another kin of the Ampatuans, former Datu
Salibo Mayor Akmad Ampatuan was ambushed in the boundary of Talayan and
Guindulungan town while on their way to Shariff Aguak. He was wounded along
with his two companions.
Maguindanao police office has not issued statement whether
the two incidents were related.
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