Find a Fugitive, Get P500K

From GMANews.tv:

Relatives and friends of slain Abra Rep. Luis Bersamin Jr are offering a P500,000 bounty for information that would lead to the arrest of an alleged gunman in the December 2006 assassination, authorities on Tuesday said.

Chief Superintendent Eugene Martin, Cordillera police director, said family and friends of the slain politician raised the bounty for the arrest of Gerry Turqueza who is tagged as one of the gunmen in the slay.

Martin said this development came in the heels of the arrest of former La Paz town vice mayor Freddie Duppo and Sonny Taculao – two primary suspects in the case – two weeks ago in Rizal province.

“Wanting that the dastardly act be solved, they are offering to give half a million reward to who ever will be able to provide information that will lead to the arrest of Gerry Turqueza, allegedly one of the gunmen in the assassination,” Martin said.

Martin said Turqueza is allegedly being hidden by a politician in a remote mountain Abra town. Turqueza is also involved in several other murder cases, and was in fact identified as a prime suspect in the killing of La Paz Mayor Ysrael Marc Bernos in 2005.

The official added that Duppo and Taculao confessed that a former rebel leader and a brother of one of Abra’s congressional candidates as those who contacted them to carry out the assassination.

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SOURCE: GMANews.tv

5 thoughts on “Find a Fugitive, Get P500K”

  1. hi bill, my mother hails from Abra (Lacub) so I am an Abrenian myself. i really don’t know much about the province (sorry to say that) but when it comes to politics there, i know they play “dirty”. even relatives become enemies.

  2. Hi Jane,
    Hey, maybe you should visit Abrenian.com they always have very interesting (sometimes heated) discussions there 🙂

    Yup politics in Abra tends to be marked with violence. But it is a beautiful province. Thanks.

  3. ang media, nagbubulag-bulagan. si general martin at pnp-abra ang may kagagawan ng halos lahat ng political killings sa abra. tsk tsk tsk.

  4. Been following the story on their last election (prior to the local one last week)from F. Cimatu’s blog. The killings and cheating were infuriating.

  5. Hi Anonymous,
    Hehe, ikaw ha. Ingat ka diyan, baka huntingin ka niya. In fairness to the general the political killings date back to as early as the 80s. I think its a cycle of violence that has been going on. Thanks.

    Hi Lovelyn,
    Yup, the political climate there is not healthy at all. But lets continue to hope that things will get better. Thanks.

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