DATU PAGLAS, Maguindanao – After a long
and tedious surveillance operation, joint police, Army and military
intelligence agents arrested in this municipality dawn on Thursday a suspect
believed to have participated in the 2008 Digos City bus terminal bombing.
Also arrested during the 4 a.m. joint police-military
operation was barangay captain of a village in this municipality for illegal
possession of firearms.
Senior Insp. Allan Uy, chief of the PNP’s Criminal
Investigation and Detection Group in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao
(ARMM), said government agents headed by their regional chief, Supt. Jimmy
Daza, conducted the operation.
On April 2, 2008, six persons were killed and about 30
others were hurt when an improvised bomb packed with nails was planted by the
suspects in the overhead bin of a Metro Shuttle bus from Davao City
Uy identified the bombing suspect as Kamad Makauyag, alias
“Madz,” who was named in a search warrant issued by the Regional Trial Court in
Digos City
The arresting agents also nabbed Datu Mahal Matalam, chair
of Barangay Penfarm here. He is the son of former Maguindanao Gov. Jimmy
Matalam.
Makauyag and the younger Matalam were in the same farm and
residential compound owned by the latter during the raid.
Makauyag vehemently denied any participation in any bombing
in Mindanao . He said he is just an ordinary
farmer working as caretaker in Matalam’s house. “I’m not aware of any crime
I’ve committed. I am just an ordinary farm worker,” he said.
Government forces recovered from the village official one
German-made caliber .22 rifle, a 9mm submachine gun and a caliber .40 pistol
with ammunition.
Uy said the arrest was part of the PNP’s “Oplan Pagtugis”
and “Oplan Paglalansag” targeting wanted persons and loose firearms.
“Our priority was Makauyag because he was a member of Al
Khobar extortion group. We searched the vicinity and found firearms in the
house of Matalam,” Uy said.
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