Money, a lot of money, played a key role in the killing of Negros Oriental Governor Roel Degamo who was killed along with eight other people in a brazen attack in his residence in Pamplona town, a police official said .
Col. Redrico Maranan, chief information officer of the Philippine National Police , said how the attack was carried out, especially with the use of former soldiers carrying high-powered firearms, is an indication that it was well-financed.
Degamo was shot dead while attending to the beneficiaries of the government’s cash dole-out program to his constituents at a compound adjacent to his house in Barangay San Isidro, Sto. Pueblo in Pamplona town at 9:45 a.m. Also wounded was David Toryan Cortez, a local broadcast journalist who was among those covering the event.
Labrador and Aber are former members of the Philippine Army, the latter turned out to be a former member of the Army’s elite Scout Ranger.Citing reports from the local police force, Maranan said among those seized from the arrested and slain suspects were high-powered firearms, including a rifle grenade, and five rocket-propelled grenades.
Maranan said there is no indication so far that the three arrested suspects are cooperating with the probe. The first was the ambush which was survived by Lanao del Sur Gov. Mamintal Adiong, Jr. near the boundary of Lanao del Sur and Bukidnon; the attack that killed Aparri, Cagayan Mayor Rommel Alameda and five others in Nueva Vizcaya; and the failed ambush on Montawal, Maguindanao del Sur Mayor Ohto Montawal in Pasay City.
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