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Friday, October 15, 2004
Solve newsmen's killings: Soliven
By Jun Feliciano
PHILIPPINE Star Publisher Max Soliven urged the police to solve the twin separate gun-slayings of two local broadcast-journalists in the city.
Soliven, who was the guest speaker of the First Media Forum, said his keen attention was called on these two unsolved killings of Rey Bancairan and Jun Cayona, both belonging to DXLL radio station when they were gunned down.
"I am very much concerned why their assailants targeted two broadcasters belonging to the same radio station," Soliven was quoted as saying during the media forum attended by local newspaper publishers, editors, station managers, and other members of the different media outlets in the city.
Other sectors in attendance for the media forum were businessmen, civic leaders and top government officials.
At the presidential table with Soliven were City Mayor Celso Lobregat, Southcom Chief Major General Generoso Senga, Police Regional Office 9 (PRO9) Director Vidal Querol and internationally well-known hotel administrator Arthur Lopez, who hails from this city.
Lopez is the son of the late Armando Lopez, Sr., owner of the defunct Lopez and Sons Tri Media, consisting of the Zamboanga Times, TV-3 and DXLL.
Bancairin was shot dead inside the booth while hosting his noontime radio program in 1998.
Cayona was ambushed while he was driving his single motorcycle on his way to his early morning board-work in Canelar Moret late 2001.
Their attackers have remained unidentified up to the present, as their cases continue to baffle police investigators, according to a reliable police source when inquired by Sun.Star Zamboanga.
Police investigation on the Bancairin killing eyed several angles, including the possibility of love triangle, while Cayona's could have been politically motivated, the source added.
Soliven posed the challenge of solving the two separate gun attacks on the two fallen local broadcasters to Director Querol, who was newly-installed as the PRO 9 chief, replacing Supt. Servando Hizon late September, this year.
Hizon, prior to his re-assignment to Camp Crame to head the PNP Crime Laboratory, accomplished his mission in arresting Police Officer 1 Guillermo Wapile, the principal suspect in the 2002 gun slaying of Pagadian broadcast-journalist Edgar Damalerio.
Wapile surrendered peacefully to the authorities from his hideout in Luzon after fruitful negotiation with his relatives, including his wife from Pagadian City through the initiative of Hizon.
Hizon had vowed to resolve the other unsolved killings involving media-practitioners in the region, including those of Bancairin and Cayona in the city.
However, the projected mass revamp in the PNP by its new chief Edgardo Aglipay cut short his stint here and put his most-welcomed plan in virtual jeopardy.
Camp Crame, through the Zamboanga City Police Office, has also ordered to look into the killing of Jade Ladja, a journalist covering the Sulu beat for the defunct Presa Zamboanga. An assassin's bullets silenced Ladja in 1993, in Baliwasan, this city.
Querol, earlier, vowed to pursue the programs of his predecessor in improving the peace and order condition here in the region.
(October 14, 2004 issue)
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