The recent spate of violent crimes, including attacks on politicians, will be solved, Interior Secretary Benjamin Abalos Jr. assured House Speaker Martin Romualdez in an emergency meeting with lower chamber officials on Monday. | GabrielLaluINQ
“So we want just to be clear. We want to message that out that we are not negligent,” Romualdez said, speaking in a mix of English and Filipino. “Can we see which of them are actually solved? Or what would be the proper way to view the status?”
He was referring to the filing of cases against eight Philippine Army officers, including Brig. Gen. Jesus Durante III, former chief of the Presidential Security Group, for allegedly being responsible for Plaza’s death. What Romualdez had in mind was the ambush last Feb. 22 of Mayor Ohto Caumbo Montawal of Datu Montawal town in Maguindanao on Roxas Boulevard in Pasay City. The mayor survived the ambush with gunshot wounds in his hip and left arm.
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