Cadiz Regional Trial Court Judge Renato Muñez has dismissed the murder case filed against Church worker Aniceta Rojo, who was tagged by the police as an alleged member of the Komiteng Rehiyonal-Negros, in the death of a Philippine Army junior officer in 2010.

In his order dated July 11, dismissing the murder charge against Rojo, Munez said he acted on the motion to withdraw the charge filed by City Prosecutor Gwendolyn Jimenea –Tiu.

Munez said that considering that Rojo was not yet arraigned in view of the various motions and incidents, filed, that required holding in abeyance her arraignment, and finding the grounds posted by City Prosecutor of Cadiz Gwendolyn Tiu to be well taken, the request was granted. He was apparently referring to the motion withdrawing the charge. The judge also ordered the immediate release of Rojo, unless she is detained for any other lawful cause.

Police records, however, showed that Rojo, with the alias of Che che, has two other pending cases of robbery-in-band and arson charges, in connection with the raid by suspected New People’s Army rebels on a fishpond in Sagay City in 2011, and the burning of a transloading station owned by the Victorias Milling Company in Toboso last Nov. 17, 2008.

A check with the Negros Occidental Police Provincial Office, showed that Rojo is still being detained at the Cadiz Bureau of Jail Management and Penology detention jail.

Police records show that Rojo, who was listed in the police order of battle as an alleged member of the KR-Negros regional finance and education committees, was among the respondents in the murder of 1Lt. Archie Polenzo in March 7, 2010, in Sitio Aluyan, Brgy. Caduhaan, Cadiz City,who was killed in an encounter.

Rojo was apprehended by a team of police intelligence operatives, by virtue of an arrest warrant also issued by Judge Munez, in Bago City, in December 7 last year. She used to work at the Diocese of Bacolod Institute on Socio-Pastoral Concerns in 1989, as an organizer of the Basic Christian Communities, as well as a volunteer worker and counselor of the GABRIELA Women’s Party.* GPB

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