Ex-mayor hit police report on gamefowl robberies

Thursday, January 19, 2012

A FORMER mayor of Murcia town questioned the police investigation on robbery incidents in gamefowl farms, which resulted to the shooting of his breeding partner Bobsy Silverio last December 28, 2011.

Former mayor Esteban Coscolluela said the report of the Murcia police is at best an unfinished job and full of loopholes, speculations and innuendos which have only one purpose - that is, to deodorize the image of the Revolutionary Proletarian Army (RPA).

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"In all my statements and interviews, I was careful not to name the RPA, as it would be speculative to do so. All I said was based on the eyewitness report of Mr. Silverio and his companion that the group who held them at gunpoint last December 21 was heavily armed and wearing bonnets. The same case with the December 28 incident," Coscolluela added.

"Having failed to disabuse the public's perception and to stop speculations, the PNP (Philippine National Police) now comes out with an investigation report that no armed group was responsible," Coscolluela also said.

He reiterated his earlier statement belying the PNP claims over the loss of the gamecocks as an inside job and that the incident, which led to the shooting of Mr. Silverio was a squabble with the "other woman".

"The inside job is out of the question since Mr. Silverio and I have been together for more than 30 years. He is more than a full partner. He supplies the industry and his son-in-law provides the financing. I supply the material, the place and the facilities. Mr. Silverio has only one aide; an old man thankful for the job given him. That being the case, will Mr. Silverio steal his own?” he said.

Coscolluela also revealed that in 2011 alone, his farm and the adjacent farms belonging to Bingbong Coscolluela, Tuting Amarra, Baby Parreño and the backyard breeders in Brgy. Blumentritt, Murcia have been hit at least 20 times with a total loss of at least 100 gamefowls.

“Are all of these inside jobs? If the PNP is sure, why have there been no apprehensions and recoveries?” Coscolluela asked.

He stressed further that the PNP report is a desperate effort to discredit Mr. Silverio as a womanizer and that the ‘other woman’ is responsible. “If the PNP is sure of this, why hasn’t been there any arrest? Come on, you can do better than that,” the former mayor said.

Coscolluela said that, for six months since the first ransacking incident on June 23, 2011, he kept his silence and left it to the Murcia PNP to solve because he did not want to be misconstrued as politicking.

“Now the mayor, the RPA and the PNP parrot the same line – no armed group! Go tell it to the marines. You just shot yourselves in the foot. I just cannot help but wonder who is controlling who,” he said.

“There is nothing politics in what I have been saying - just pure issue. I am already enjoying my retirement,” Coscolluela concluded. (Karl G. Ombion)