| Councilor Procopio Fernandez told the Cebu City Council yesterday that if police can’t solve the serial murders (102 as of the last count), Cebu City “will continue to bear its new tag of Murder City.” Fernandez waves a copy of Sun.Star Cebu’s Nov. 8 issue carrying the “Murder City” story as he delivers his privilege speech before the City Council. (Councilor Jack Jakosalem photo) |
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In an “outcry” condemning the vigilante attacks, the Cebu City Council yesterday declared it will “call for a major change” in the local police leadership if that is needed to solve the killings.
Otherwise, Councilor Procopio Fernandez said, Cebu City “will continue to bear its new tag as “Murder City.”
Fernandez, in a privilege speech, said that if the police and other law enforcement agencies cannot address the situation, the council could conclude that authorities are “either poor in their performance or are condoning the killings.”
“We are only talking here of common crimes, and yet our police force is facing a blank wall on how to solve them. What about terrorist attacks? God forbid, (but) are we ready to contain them?”
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