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Sunday, November 04, 2007
Police fail to arrest Bedol in Cotabato
By Malu C. Manar
KIDAPAWAN CITY -- Authorities here failed to arrest former Maguindanao provincial election supervisor Lintang Bedol when they searched his house in Cotabato City on Friday.
Inspector Willy Casuyo, Station 4 chief of the Cotabato City police, said they could not find Bedol in his house.
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They were met by Bedol’s wife, Hadja Hajijia, who told them that she last saw her husband on October 20.
Casuyo, along with members of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group and the Regional Mobile Group in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (Armm), searched Bedol's house. They were armed with a warrant of arrest issued by the Commission on Elections (Comelec).
The Comelec has set a deadline for Bedol's arrest.
Some Comelec officials had criticized Armm Regional Director Joel Goltiao for allegedly not acting on their order to arrest Bedol.
Bedol was found guilty of indirect contempt by the Comelec en banc. It sentenced him to imprisonment for six months and to pay a fine of P1,000.
In a 21-page resolution promulgated recently, the commission found Bedol guilty of all four charges filed against him.
The Comelec had charged Bedol for his repeated failure to attend the hearings called by the commission, his refusal to submit written explanations of his absences, his unlawful possession of accountable election documents, and his outright disrespect for the authority of the Comelec.
Reports said that Bedol has left the country using the southern backdoor. (Sun.Star General Santos/Sunnex)For more Philippine news, visit Sun.Star General Santos. (November 4, 2007 issue)
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