THE family of former Cebu City Prosecutor Mary Ann Castro is willing to reward any person who can provide information that will lead to the identification of her killers.
Castro’s daughter Monique Roa said giving a bounty is an option after learning that the police and the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) 7 do not have a clear lead.
After Castro was buried in her hometown in Clarin, Misamis Occidental last Jan. 26, her children and other relatives went back to Cebu to check the progress of the investigation.
“The family is thinking of offering a reward for an informant but also we are pursuing whatever legal remedies we can, our own investigations, perhaps (hiring) a private prosecutor if the assailant is identified and I’m hoping that would happen soon,” Roa said.
She said she was surprised that footage of the actual ambush last Jan. 17 and the events prior to that are missing. What remained was footage from the day after the incident, Roa said.
Despite the slow progress of the investigation, Roa said she is glad that the NBI 7 obtained some footage of closed circuit television (CCTV) cameras from establishments near the crime scene on Escario St., Cebu City.
She said the family is also conducting its own investigation.
A CCTV footage that Roa saw showed the riding-in-tandem assailants follow Castro from Ayala Center Cebu.
“Sa ako pa ning inahan, di man gyud ni niya lung-an. Kaila man gyud ko ato (If my mother were in my place, she would not give up. I know her), she will not rest until she is able to arrive at the truth. And it would be a disservice to her memory, to what she did for us in the family, if we don’t do this,” Roa said. (From AZLG of Superbalita Cebu/KAL)