Suspended BuCor chief Gerald Bantag is not old enough to be called “Tanda,” one of the alleged masterminds in the murder of radio commentator Percy Lapid, according to detained former Sen. Leila de Lima. | MRamosINQ santostinaINQ dexcabalzaINQ /PDI
“They should pursue the identity of the person known only as ‘Tanda,’” she said. “‘Tanda’ cannot be ‘Bantag’ himself.”
Besides, she said, there was “still the question of whether Bantag was determined enough to issue the command himself without being ordered by someone more powerful and more brazen than him.”Southern Police District director Brig. Gen. Kirby John Kraft said Duterte was not among the 160 persons of interest that the PNP had checked on in relation to Mabasa’s killing.
But the police is “still open” to including “other personalities” as the case progresses, according to PNP spokesperson Police Col. Jean Fajardo. In a series of tweets following her statement, De Lima urged the government to give protection to the suspended official as his life may be in danger “from a higher and more powerful coconspirator.”Justice Secretary Jesus Crispin Remulla said the evidence so far pointed only to Bantag and Zulueta as the masterminds.
Remulla said Bantag did not return to NBP to attend the graduation of inmates who were enrolled in a joint education program between the University of Perpetual Help and the national penitentiary. “Then on Sept. 17, the plot [to kill Mabasa] started. Everything came into fruition. You would see that really there’s a string that ties everything together,” Remulla said.
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