Task Group head still no ‘official report’ on suspect Sema’s detention in Malaysia

From the Mindanao Times (Jan 18): Task Group head still no ‘official report’ on suspect Sema’s detention in Malaysia

THE SPECIAL Investigation Task Group Night Market still has no “official report” that one of the Roxas Avenue blast suspects has been detained in Malaysia.

“We still have no official report that he is detained there,” said Sr. Supt. Valeriano de Leon, the deputy police regional director for operations who heads the task group.

“Kasi kung meron, we can bring him to the court kasi may warrant po yun (If he’s indeed there, we can bring him to the court because there’s a warrant for his arrest).

President Rodrigo Duterte, in a speech during a business gathering at Marco Polo hotel on Saturday, confirmed that Datu Mohammad Abduljabbar Sema, son of a Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) leader, was arrested and has been detained in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Sema, a barangay captain of Rosary Heights VIII in Cotabato City, is the son of Muslimin Sema, a founding member of MNLF and former mayor of Cotabato City, and Rep. Bai Sandra Sema, congresswoman of the first district of Maguindanao.

In the charge sheet released by the Office of the City Prosecution Office, Sema was identified as Datu Mohammad Abduljabbara Sema alias Datu Masla and DM.

In the investigation conducted by the city prosecution office, it was Sema who “suggested to use the bomb in Davao City instead because the incumbent President of the Philippines is from the said city and to compel the government to reduce the military forces in Basilan who at that time was fighting the Abu Sayyaf Group.”

The group initially planned to use the bomb in in Midsayap City in Cotabato. The blast killed 15 persons and injured 69 others.

But AFP Chief Gen. Eduardo Ano said Sema was not the mastermind in the blast.
“But we have information he participated during the planning,” Ano said.

He said that the United States intelligence has helped them in tracking down the suspects in the bombing.

“The US provided us with the technology information sharing. They taught us how to get information through scientific and technical equipment. They have capability so they share it to us,” he said.

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