SALABAS KIDNAP SLAY
Victim's family seeking
transfer of nabbed suspect

The family of a former Bacolod barangay captain who was kidnapped and murdered in Bacolod City in August 2003, will file a motion before the Guihulngan Regional Trial Court in Oriental Negros requesting the transfer of one of the suspects arrested by the police in Dipolog City last week.

Lorraine "Lulu" Abay, one of the 21 accused in the kidnapping and murder of Eleuterio Salabas, should be transferred from the Dipolog PNP to the Guihulngan RTC so that she could answer the allegation against her, Tom Orola, Salabas' brother-in-law, told the DAILY STAR in a phone interview yesterday.

Orola said the reports on the alleged arrest of Chief Inspectors Clarence Dongail and Jimmy Fortaleza in Palawan and Manila, respectively, were untrue and were only aimed to muddle the issue. On March 21, the Dipolog PNP arrested Abay at a bar on the strength of an arrest warrant issued by Guihulngan RTC Judge Mario Trinidad. No bail was set for Abay and her co-accused, 10 of them policemen, who remain at-large. Abay vehemently denied involvement in the crime and claimed she had no idea that she was among those facing charges for the death of Salabas and his nephew Maximo Lomoljo and Ricardo Suganob.*DMG

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Peace rally held
in Kabankalan

A People's Peace Rally was held at the plaza of Kabankalan City, Negros Occidental in line with the 38th founding anniversary of the New People's Army yesterday, a press release from, the Kabankalan police station said.

About 2,000 residents attended from Barangays Oringao, Orong and Hilamonan, and members of sectoral group Kabankalan Jaycees, students of Fellowship Baptist College, barangay officials, with representatives of non-government organizations, 61st Infantry Battalion of the Army led by Col. Norman Flores, Kabankalan City Police Station led by P/Supt Roderick, and Kabankalan city administrator Higino Sixto Garaygay.

The rally started with a parade from Crossing Coronacion going to the city plaza, followed by a program. Speakers were former members and returnees of propaganda organizing team, Propaganda Unit Team and front guerilla units or the red fighters of the NPA, the press release added.*

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Cadiz man shot, critical

Danilo Denapo, 32, of Hacienda Lilia 2, Brgy. Viejo in Cadiz was rushed to the Corazon Locsin Montelibano Memorial Regional Hospital in Bacolod City with a gun shot wound on his head allegedly inflicted by Railyn "Boray" Palacios at about 5 a.m. yesterday.

Ruby Denapo, wife of the victim, said "Boray" told the owner of the hacienda that her husband was not doing the rounds at night. Boray and Danilo figured in a confrontation yesterday morning and Ruby later found her husband lying on the ground with a gunshot wound on his head near the house of Boray, Ruby said.

Meanwhile, Genard Robles, 16, of Brgy. Haba, Candoni, Negros Occidental was also rushed to the CLMMRH after he was hit with an airgun on his upper lip allegedly by an unidentified person at about 3 p.m. Wednesday.

In Purok 3, Brgy. San Jose, Binalbagan town, Christopher Aguilar, 30, married, was stabbed on the chest by an unidentified person at the parking area for tricycles in Binalbagan town at about 5:30 p.m. Wednesday.

Aguilar was in the area when a discussion started to heat up between unidentified persons and was struck by one of them, police reports said.

On the other hand, Jonny Magbanua, 20, single, of Brgy. Payao, Binalbagan, sustained a stab wound on the left side of his stomach allegedly inflicted by his uncle, Antonio Camaso at about 9 a.m. yesterday. Police reports said Antonio was under the influence of intoxicating liquor when the incident took place.*CBM

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