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
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
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