The two Cebu-based development workers allegedly abducted by unidentified men called on authorities to hasten the investigation and identify those behind their forced disappearance, as they publicly spoke for the first time about the incident.
“I kept asking them why they did this to us or what infraction we committed? I even asked them to show us a warrant of arrest. But we were told ‘you’re an activist.’ They were asking who our [colleagues] are,” she said.
Gumanao and Dayoha went missing on Jan. 10 after they were allegedly forced to board a sport utility vehicle when they arrived in Cebu City’s Pier 6 after spending the Christmas break with their families in Mindanao. On Jan. 16, the couple was abandoned by their abductors in a resort in Carmen town, 41 kilometers north of Cebu City.
Gumanao said their abduction was not an isolated case, noting that “many activists have gone missing and were even killed.” “What if we also experienced that same kind of treatment? All along, we were thinking what stories our abductors planned to make to legitimize our deaths,” she said in Cebuano.“Had it not been because of you and your courageous stance, we should not have been in front of you now,” said Gumanao.
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