President-elect Rodrigo Duterte has asked the New People's
Army (NPA) to immediately release Governor Generoso Chief of Police Chief
Inspector Arnold Olgachen and offered to go to the mountains to bring back to Davao
Duterte revealed he was able to talk over the phone with a
certain commander "Queen" and ask why the abduction happened. Queen
is said to be an NPA leader operating in Davao Oriental.
“I have talked to Queen, a higher official of the NPA and
asked him to release the police officer,” Duterte said. But Duterte said Queen
told him he has no knowledge about the attack but assured to look into it.
Ongachen was abducted while a police officer and one
civilian were wounded when armed men on board an elf truck and pick-up vehicles
attacked the Municipal Hall and the police station on Sunday night.
On Wednesday night, the NPA-Southern Mindanao Regional
Command owned up the attack of the Municipal Police Station on Sunday night,
claiming it was a popular demand of the people to punish protectors of rampant
drug trafficking and land grabbing.
In a statement signed by NPA-SMRC spokesperson Rigoberto
Sanchez, the NPA rebel group named Governor Generoso town as an alleged gateway
of illegal drug trade in Davao Oriental and claimed the police failed to curb
the drugs trading activity.
The NPA also confirmed to have taken the chief of police,
Chief Inspector Ongachen, as their Prisoner of War (POW) and seized 11 firearms
consisting of six M16 rifles, one M14 rifle, and five pistols.
As proof of an ongoing drug trade, the NPA claimed its
fighters even confiscated a sachet of shabu (methamphetamine hydrochloride)
from Ongachen following the raid. Ongachen will undergo investigation of
possible human rights violations but the rebel group assured the police
officer’s good health.
They also accused local officials of failure to act on the
prevalence of illegal drugs in the province indicating an unholy alliance with
drug syndicates while the 28th Infantry Battalion allegedly sabotaged their
planned raid of a "shabu" laboratory in Tibanban, Governor Generoso.
Aside from drugs, the NPA also claimed of complaints from
peasants and farmers that policemen have long protected the land grabbing
activities of prominent families in the province.
http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?idn=2&sid=&nid=2&rid=891213
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