The Philippine National Police (PNP), in a bid to fend off accusationsit played a part in the abduction of agriculturist Jonas Burgos nearly four months ago, yes-terday found itself in hotter water when an alleged com-munist rebel from whom one of the “witnesses” to the kidnapping had been taking “orders” turned out to be under military detention since the rebel’s arrest last year.
The PNP, through Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) chief Edgardo Doromal, the other day presented before the media the “witness,” Emerito Lipio, a self-confessed New People’s Army (NPA) guerrilla who claimed he has vital infor-mation on the abduction of Jonas.
During investigation, Lipio said he was getting orders from his leader based in Bulacan province, north of Manila, one “Delfin de Guzman.”
But it was learned that De Guzman has been in government custody since 2006.
Hmmm... i recall the arroyo adminstration authorities used whistleblower rashma hali of all people to accuse harriet demetriou and rufus rodriguez of kidnapping and illegally detaining him.
More from Ninez Cacho Olivarez:
More gross blunders from the military and the CIDG: Police witness Lirio was found not to be an NPA, but one of the disappeared, as he was identified by a jeepney group, Piston, as a legitimate transport leader who went missing in July 2006.
It was clear then that the military was lying all the while as the military had denied then that Lirio was not in the custody of the Armed Forces of the Philippines, but with his being surfaced by the police recently, it has been proved that the AFP had Lirio under its custody all the while.
The CIDG certainly knew this, too, but went along with the lie when the CIDG chief presented Lirio to the media, thus proving that the police chiefs as well as the military generals are more than willing to protect the criminals in the military to the point of their manufacturing witnesses and providing perjured testimony, which makes them lawbreakers.
This is not the first time either that the police and military have presented to the media alleged terrorist-bombers who were found to be recycled suspects. The Tribune some time ago, published a photo of the suspects presented by the PNP to the media, and identified them as also having been presented earlier by the same PNP as suspects in the bombings in other sites.
This recycling of suspects is usually being done by the cops and the military to claim that the cases have been resolved, and for them to be able to claim success in curbing terrorism, crimes and whatever else they want to claim.
This admin indeed has a history of manufacturing and recycling "witnesses."
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