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Friday, June 30, 2006
CHR to conduct moto propio probe on Cornea murder
By Erwin Ambo S. Delilan
AS THE police and the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) admitted to having a hard time in solving the recent killing of TFM leader Wilfredo Cornea in Sagay City Monday night, the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) vowed to conduct a moto propio investigation.
CHR-Negros Occidental head Romeo Baldevarona said they will have to conduct an onsite investigation particularly to the immediate relatives of the victim as well as to the people closer to him.
CIDG-Negros Field Office head Inspector Ramon Falales, on the other hand, said their two investigators - PO2 Melvin Mocorro and SPO1 Richard Delasa - will be reporting to him today regarding the outcome of their investigation.
PO2 Jerry Banasing, case investigator from Sagay City Police Office (SCPO), though said it is hard to uncover who the culprits are and as to their motives in killing the TFM leader.
Cornea was vice-president of Task Force Mapalad in (TFM) Hacienda Luisita, Barangay Poblacion 1, Sagay City.
Police report indicate he was strafed to death by two assassins while resting inside their house at around 8:30 p.m.
His wife, Nenita, accused a certain Joseph Lacson, Luisita farm administrator, and a certain Mador Villa, an alleged member of the breakaway Revolutionary Proletarian Army-Alex Boncayao Brigade (RPA-ABB) as those behind the killing of her husband.
Lacson who turned himself over to the police after hearing his name as one of the principal suspects in the case, repeatedly denied the allegation.
Negros Occidental Police Provincial Office (Noppo) Director Charles Calima Jr., on the other hand, is confident to solve Cornea's killing.
He urged witnesses in Sagay to cooperate with the police so to hasten the probe on the case.
Cornea is the third TFM member who was killed in Negros Occidental since April this year after Rico Adeva of Silay City and Mario Domingo of La Castellana.
Adeva was killed at Imbang River in Barangay Bagtic, Silay City on April 15. The suspects for his killing were his relatives.
While Domingo was also shot dead by alleged "hired goons" by the Domingo Family in Hacienda Cambuktot, Barangay Mansalanao, La Castellana on May 17. Both cases remain unsolved until now.
(June 30, 2006 issue)
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