MINDANAO DAILY TRUTH | JUSTICE | PROGRESS
Volume XII, No. 032
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CDO Mayor Klarex Uy confident police arrested real suspect in son’s killing
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By FROILAN GALLARDO
AGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews / 2 Aug) – After being given a briefing, Mayor Rolando Uy said he believed the suspect arrested by the police for the killing of his son, Roland Sherwin, was not a “fall guy.”
Maj. Gerson Santanilla, commander of the Bulua police station, raises a picture of Edgardo Gaabucayan, one of the suspects in the killing of the son of Mayor Rolando Uy, during a press conference in Cagayan de Oro City Monday (1 August 2022) as the mayor (in white shirt) and Col. Aaron Mandia, city police director, listen. MindaNews photo by FROILAN GALLARDO Uy told reporters Monday that he is confident the nabbed suspect, Edgardo
Gaabucayan, is part of the group who killed his son. “I saw the evidence and video that implicated him,” he added. The Cagayan de Oro City Police Office (COCPO) gave Uy a briefing on how the 59-year-old Gaabucayan was implicated in the November 11, 2021 killing of Roland Sherwin. Roland Sherwin, 45, a council member of Barangay Carmen, was shot and killed by gunmen in the familyowned quarry in Barangay Pagatpat. The gunmen also killed his employee, Samuel Pabalan, who was with the victim. Police brought Gaabucayan to Cagayan de Oro after they arrested him in his house in Purok 6, Barangay Cabasagan, Lala See REAL, page 11
Maj. Gerson Santanilla, commander of the Bulua police station, raises a picture of Edgardo Gaabucayan, one of the suspects in the killing of the son of Mayor Rolando Uy, during a press conference in Cagayan de Oro City Monday (1 August 2022) as the mayor (in white shirt) and Col. Aaron Mandia, city police director, listen. MindaNews photo by FROILAN GALLARDO
MisOr to install complaint hotline vs. erring officials By Nef Luczon
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY – The Misamis Oriental provincial government will establish a complaint hotline to accommodate and validate claims from constituents of unsatisfactory service and erring public servants. Governor Peter Unabia said Monday the hotline would be a localized version of hotline 8888, the Citizen’s Complaint Center, which was introduced during the administration of former President Rodrigo Duterte. “I have heard feedback about not giving a good service to the public. To validate the issue, we will be having a hotline,” he said. Unabia also said putting up a hotline that directly receives responses from the public is part of his administration’s agenda on participatory and consultative governance. He assured, however,
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OCD 10 initiates massive rescue drill By MARK FRANCISCO Misamis Oriental Governor Peter M. Unabia during the flag raising ceremony on Monday (August 1, 2022). (Image courtesy of Misamis Oriental PIO)
that the hotline will not entertain anonymous complaints. “What happened in 8888 is that several complaints were anonymous, and the local chief executives moved to create a team defending them against the anonymous complaints,” Unabia said. He also noted that personnel and officials at the provincial Capitol will undergo review, especially those under the job order or contractual arrange-
ments. “We will look into it if their assignment were merited on their expertise on the job or a political accommodation,” he said. The review of Capitol personnel, Unabia said, is in line with the call of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. on the “rightsizing” within the government agencies and instrumentalities, as mentioned in the latter’s first State of the Nation Address last week. (PNA)
TO culminate the National Disaster Resilience Month this July, the Office of Civil Defense (O CD) 10 galvanized dozens of rescue groups all over the region in a massive drill simulating a 7.2 magnitude quake in the city. Initiated by regional director Antonio Sugarol and assistant regional director Gilbert Conde, the drill was called Rescue M.A.R.C.H (Mass Assembly for Rescue and Care for Humanity).
It was a literal march of the rescuers which started at three points – Gusa, Bulua and upper Carmen – and culminated at Misamis Oriental Integrated Sports Center in a 1.5 kilometer-long walk with rescuers carrying the “wounded.” At t h e M i s a m i s Oriental Integrated Sports Center, there was a mock execution of the following incidents Friday mor ning: is olat ion and area assessment, mass casualty incident (basic life support and first aid), location i.e.
victim search, access, victim stabilization, extrication and handover to the appropriate medical personnel. According to Sugarol, Rescue M.A.R.C.H was to simulate a 7.2 magnitue quake that would happen in Cagayan de Oro City and how rescuers would respond to that event. The scenario presumes that roads and transp or tation would be unsafe or unavailable for use so rescuers would have to go on foot across the city to search for survivors.