The Philippine military and other agencies have joined forces to achieve justice and suppress impunity and criminality in Negros Oriental after the killing of Governor Roel Degamo last March 4.
agreed that the Department of Justice , Armed Forces of the Philippines , Philippine National Police , and other agencies would join forces to achieve justice in the incident.“Napagkasunduan po natin yung tinatatawag nating the power of the President to call out to the military to suppress yung impunity and criminality dito sa Negros,” said Department of National Defense Secretary Carlito Galvez during his visit to Governor Degamo’s wake.
Meanwhile, Pamplona Mayor Janice Degamo, widow of slain Negros Oriental Governor Roel Degamo, believed that peace would be restored when her husband's killers were brought to justice. Last Saturday, Degamo was talking to beneficiaries of the government's Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program program at his residence in Pamplona, Negros Oriental, when armed men barged in and fired shots.
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