NBI probing Alvarez kin’s
link to Arles slay
There’s no motive, vice guv says
BY CARLA GOMEZ

The National Bureau of Investigation is seriously looking into the possibility that a member of the family of Negros Occidental Vice Governor Genaro Alvarez Jr. may be linked to the killing of Kabankalan Regional Trial Court Judge Henry Arles, NBI Bacolod chief Ferdinand Lavin said yesterday.

Lavin said information they have received does not link the vice governor but a member of his family.

“We are considering that angle very seriously against the four other angles we have considered,” he added.

Suspected New People’s Army assassins shot and killed an unarmed member of the 47th Infantry Battalion in Sipalay City, Negros Occidental, yesterday, making him the second member of the Army’s Peace and Development Team killed in southern Negros since March this year.

The victim identified as PFC John Ilisan succumbed to gunshot wounds in the nape, left shoulder and back from shots fired by two suspected NPA hitmen at the public market of Sitio Cambugi-ot, Brgy. Camindangan, Sipalay City, at about 8 a.m. yesterday.

Lt. Col. Rodrigo Sosmena, 47th IB commander, said the unarmed Ilisan was shot while doing a marketing job, with his buddy, PFC Gilbert Villa.

The United Negros Alliance is inviting Ambassador Eduardo “Danding” Cojuangco to its party caucus to be held in about two weeks, where it will announce its candidates for the May 2013 polls, Negros Occidental Gov. Alfredo Marañon Jr. said yesterday.

Cojuangco is the founder of UNA and the Nationalist People’s Coalition.

Marañon, who heads UNA and the NPC in Negros Occidental, said that except for the second district, where his son, Rep. Alfredo Marañon III, is on his third and last term, it is likely that the five other solons of the province will remain UNA’s candidates for the same posts next year.