Speaker Martin Romualdez on Sunday called for a House inquiry into the alleged failure of some of the police escorts of Negros Oriental Governor Roel Degamo to report for duty on the day he was murdered.
In a statement, Romualdez urged the House Committee on Public Order and Safety to investigate the “highly suspicious” disappearance of the five out of six Philippine National Police security personnel of Degamo on March 4, whenin Pamplona, Negros Oriental and fired shots. The attack also left eight other people dead.
“It appears that the perpetrators were aware of the fact that Gov. Degamo has practically no protection so they could easily accomplish their mission to assassinate him,” he added. “We want to find out why most of Gov. Degamo’s PNP security details went missing on that fateful day. We don’t want to blindly accuse anyone but the circumstances apparently point to collusion between some members of the PNP and the perpetrators of this dastardly crime,” he said.
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