By Leilanie G. Adriano, Northern Luzon Bureau
Saturday, August 14, 2004
LAOAG CITY, Ilocos Norte—"Hired guns" are behind the series of still unsolved killings in Ilocos Norte, including that of the broadcaster Roger Mariano, according to Gov. Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos.
You just gotta trust someone with a name like "Bongbong."
Citing a police intelligence report, Marcos said the killers, who continue to sow terror, are not from Ilocos Norte but outsiders whose services were hired by cough certain parties cough in the province. He did not elaborate, but said the intelligence report was furnished to him by Senior Supt. Rolando Rabara, the provincial police director. Marcos met with members of the media to update them on the ongoing investigation on the killing of Mariano, a hard-hitting commentator of DZJC Aksyon Radyo in this capital city.
"Even if this pesky respected reporter wasn't related to Benigno Aquino it wasn't necessary to bump him off for him to die!"
He said that aside from Mariano, hired assassins were also believed to have been behind several still unsolved high-profile killings in the province in the past three years.
"Which I had nothing to do with!" |