Missing journalist safe (8:54 p.m.)

CAGAYAN DE ORO -- The stringer of Hot FM 106.3 who was reported missing on Sunday in Camiguin Island is reportedly “on his way home.”

Roland C. Bruno, who also wrote for a local weekly paper Azilam, told anchor Rey Maraunay in an interview over RMN DxCC Monday morning that “he was safely on his way home.”

Bruno was reported missing after reporting a mauling incident on two journalists – Herbert H. Dumaguing and his son Hubert – allegedly by Camiguin incumbent Governor Jurdin Jesus M. Romualdo.

Romualdo earlier denied any knowledge on the mauling of two journalists.

The Dumaguings reportedly worked for TV 13 Parasat Cable TV in Cagayan de Oro.

However, Gean T. Cesar, creative and video services head of TV 13 Parasat Cable, said the Dumaguings are not part of their TV crew nor do they deploy personnel outside Cagayan de Oro city.

"We don't have crew (employed) with those names (Herbert H. Dumaguing and son Hubert), much more have a crew deployed outside Cagayan de Oro. (Please) verify if they're impostors," Cesar said in a text message.

Meanwhile, lawyer Beverly S. Musni, spokesperson of the local chapter of the Union of People's Lawyers in Mindanao (UPLM-NMR), said whether the Dumaguings were employees of TV 13 Parasat Cable or not, what Gov. Romualdo and his men allegedly did to the father and son is still an "appalling display of abuse of power."(Sun.Star Cagayan de Oro)