From the Philippine News Agency (Nov 23, 2020): Cops, military probe murder of former Jolo cop chief (By Edwin Fernandez)
SLAIN IN MAGUINDANAO. A video screengrab from a Senate hearing that included Lt. Colonel Walter Annayo, then Jolo town police chief, as he appeared before the Senate probe on the mysterious killing of four Army intelligence operatives in Jolo on June 29, 2020. Annayo was shot to death in the Maguindanao town of Sultan Mastura on Saturday (Nov. 21, 2020). (File photo courtesy of the Senate through YouTube)
Police and military authorities have joined hands in hunting down the suspects in the murder of a police colonel in the Maguindanao town of Sultan Mastura over the weekend.
Police investigators in Maguindanao said Monday they have yet to establish the identities of the perpetrators and the motive behind the killing of Lt. Col. Walter Annayo (not Captain as earlier reported by the Maguindanao police) in Barangay Macabiso, Sultan Mastura town.
Annayo, who was driving his vehicle, had stopped by a roadside refreshment stall along the highway in the barangay around 1:45 p.m. Saturday when gunmen aboard another vehicle shot him to death.
“We would like to help the police get the perpetrators behind the killing of Annayo and bring them before the bar of justice,” said Brig. Gen. Jonas Lumawag, commander of the 1st Marine Brigade (1MBde), in an interview by reporters here Monday.
Annayo, former police chief of Jolo, Sulu, was relieved from his post and reassigned to the Police Regional Office–Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao after his men killed in an alleged “misencounter” four Army intelligence officers on June 29, 2020.
“He (Annayo) was moved to the Regional Personnel Holding Unit of PRO-BARMM after the controversial and mysterious killing of four Army intelligence operatives in Jolo,” Brig. Gen. Samuel Rodriguez, the BARMM police director, said in a separate interview.
Rodriguez had earlier ordered for a massive manhunt on the killers of Annayo.
In April this year, the 1st MBde assumed the role of the military-led Task Force Cotabato to help secure Cotabato City and its immediate areas that included parts of Maguindanao province.
The marine brigade forms part of Joint Task Force Central headed by the Army’s 6th Infantry Division commander, Maj. Gen. Juvymax Uy.
https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1122607
Police investigators in Maguindanao said Monday they have yet to establish the identities of the perpetrators and the motive behind the killing of Lt. Col. Walter Annayo (not Captain as earlier reported by the Maguindanao police) in Barangay Macabiso, Sultan Mastura town.
Annayo, who was driving his vehicle, had stopped by a roadside refreshment stall along the highway in the barangay around 1:45 p.m. Saturday when gunmen aboard another vehicle shot him to death.
“We would like to help the police get the perpetrators behind the killing of Annayo and bring them before the bar of justice,” said Brig. Gen. Jonas Lumawag, commander of the 1st Marine Brigade (1MBde), in an interview by reporters here Monday.
Annayo, former police chief of Jolo, Sulu, was relieved from his post and reassigned to the Police Regional Office–Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao after his men killed in an alleged “misencounter” four Army intelligence officers on June 29, 2020.
“He (Annayo) was moved to the Regional Personnel Holding Unit of PRO-BARMM after the controversial and mysterious killing of four Army intelligence operatives in Jolo,” Brig. Gen. Samuel Rodriguez, the BARMM police director, said in a separate interview.
Rodriguez had earlier ordered for a massive manhunt on the killers of Annayo.
In April this year, the 1st MBde assumed the role of the military-led Task Force Cotabato to help secure Cotabato City and its immediate areas that included parts of Maguindanao province.
The marine brigade forms part of Joint Task Force Central headed by the Army’s 6th Infantry Division commander, Maj. Gen. Juvymax Uy.
https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1122607
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