Montelibano slams ex-mayor’s claims

Tuesday, January 17, 2012

“Politically motivated and untrue.”

This was the statement made by Murcia Mayor Andrew Montelibano on the alleged rampant game fowl robberies in the town claimed by former mayor Esteban Coscolluela.

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Montelibano said the result of the investigation conducted by the Negros Occidental Police Provincial Office (Noppo)

showed that the claims of Coscolluela are not true.

In a letter dated December 29, 2011 addressed to Governor Alfredo Marañon Jr., Noppo Director Allan Guisihan, Presidential Adviser for the Peace Process Teresita Deles and the Murcia police chief, Coscolluela complained about the inutility of the Murcia police against the series of robberies in his fighting cock farm in Hda. Puyas, Murcia.

He stated that not a single suspect has been arrested nor a case solved among the numerous robberies where 100 game cocks were already lost to heavily armed men.

He also stated that the responding member of the Murcia police in the person of Police Officer 3 Danilo Pastro warned his caretaker Bobsy Silverio that the members of the Revolutionary Proletarian Army (RPA) were responsible for the raids on the cock farm.

Montelibano said that based on the investigation result conducted by Noppo, the reported thievery of gamecocks at the former mayor’s farm was an inside job.

“Now the truth has come out,” stressed Montelibano. “I waited for the investigation result and kept mum, despite the tirades against me.”

He said he feels vindicated, as the investigation result showed that the Murcia police, which are also under his supervision and control, are doing their job.

He emphasized that the actuations of Coscolluela are plainly political.

Montelibano said he has committed himself to public service and is prepared to anybody’s challenge, including Coscolluela’s, come 2013 elections.

“My performance will be my power for reelection,” Montelibano, who isset to deliver his State of the Municipal Address on January 24, said.