Thursday, November 19, 2015

CIDG-ARMM insists it got right man in 2003 Davao Wharf bombing

From the Philippine News Agency (Nov 19): CIDG-ARMM insists it got right man in 2003 Davao Wharf bombing

The Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) here Thursday insisted that the suspect in the 2003 Davao City bombing arrested in Pigcawayan, North Cotabato over the weekend was not a case of mistaken identity.

Police Supt. Jimmy Daza, CIDG regional director for the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (CIDG-ARMM), said the person that CIDG and Military Intelligence Group operatives in Barangay Poblacion, Pigcawayan, North Cotabato was Abdulmanap Mentang, a suspect in the 2003 deadly bombing at Sasa Warf in Davao City and not Abdulla Pandita Hamza as claimed by the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF).

After the arrest of Hamsa, the MILF issued a statement declaring that the arrest was a case of mistaken identity and that the person collared by government agents was Abdullah Pandita Hamza, a member of the MILF 105th base command.

But Supt. Daza said it was not a case of mistaken identity. “We have been conducting surveillance operations against Mentang, we were sure of his identity,” Daza told reporters.

Daza said his office was tasked to implement the arrest warrant issued by a Davao City court which has jurisdiction over the case against Mentang.

After the arrest on Nov. 11 at a checkpoint in Pigcawayan, North Cotabato, the CIDG turned over Mentang to the court in Davao City.

”We have done our part that is to implement the arrest based on a court order, it is now up for the suspect to defend himself in proper forum,” Daza said.

Mentang carries a PHP2.3 million reward for his alleged involvement in the Sasa Wharf bombing left at least 17 persons killed and 56 others wounded.

http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?idn=2&sid=&nid=2&rid=829057

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