A police officer, assigned in Misamis Oriental, was released
Tuesday to the provincial local crisis committee headed by Governor Yevgeny
Vincente Emano of Misamis Oriental.
Emano, together with religious leaders and Third Party
Facilitators of the Philippine Ecumenical Peace Platform (PEPP), formally
accepted Senior Police Officer 4 Rene Rombo during a turnover in the remote village of Banglay
The communist New People’s Army (NPA) released Rombo, one of
the three police officers, captured when the NPA rebels mounted a coordinated
road blockade in some areas in the Caraga Region and Northern Mindanao last
April 1.
Rombo, who was assigned at the Municipal Police Station of
Medina in Misamis Oriental, was held by the NPA rebels in a roadblock in
Kinoguitan, Misamis Oriental.
The turnover last Tuesday was facilitated by a certain
“Kumander Maya,” of the Eastern Misamis Oriental and Northeastern Bukidnon
Command of the Maoist NPA.
Top officials of the military and the police in Northern Mindanao ordered a seven day “stand down” of all
the law enforcers in some areas in Misamis Oriental and part of Bukidnon until
May 5 in order to facilitate the safe release of Rombo.
Emano, together with the local government officials and the
PEPP, headed by the Bishop Felixberto Calang, negotiated for the release of
Rombo in coordination with the military and police.
Calang has expressed thanks to Emano, the local government
officials, members of the local crisis committee, the military and the police,
for the efforts that paved the way to a successful negotiation.
He said that aside from Rombo, the NPA is also expected to
release the three other captives composed of a police officer and two
government troopers on May 3.
Calang said that the three other law enforcers who remained
in captivity were SPO1 Warren Coñales, Private First Class Glenn Austia and
Diven Abion Tawide.
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