Pangasinan Governor asks for an independent probe of grenade blast
Pangasinan Governor Amado T. Espino, Jr. today asked the Philippine National Police (PNP) to conduct a thorough and independent investig...
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Pangasinan Governor Amado T. Espino, Jr. today asked the Philippine National Police (PNP) to conduct a thorough and independent investigation of an alleged grenade blast that occurred at the house of a mayoral candidate in the town of Bugallon at past midnight today.
Reports reaching the capitol had it that an unidentified person lobbed a grenade in front of the house of Bugallon candidate for vice mayor Rodrigo Orduna. The grenade exploded in front of the door of his house, did little damage and hurt no one.
Espino pointed out that Pangasinan has been known as a peaceful province with little track record of political violence for decades now.
“I don’t want anybody to stage-manage violent acts that make it appear that politics has anything to do with crimes in my province,” Espino stressed.
An independent and non-partisan investigation of the grenade blast will be the first decisive step to keep it that way, he said.
Most mayors and provincial officials of Pangasinan recently circulated a signed manifesto demanding the replacement of acting provincial police chief Marlowe Chan on charges of partisan politics and incompetence at preventing and solving an increasing number of unsolved shooting incidents in the province since he was assigned here.
A total of over 70 cases of unsolved shootings have been recorded in the province since Chan took over as police chief.
Besides the failure of the provincial police chief Chan to prevent and solve crimes, the petition to get him transferred also pointed out his practice of engaging in partisan politics in his home province and the unilateral reshuffling of 28 municipal police chiefs.
Reports reaching the capitol had it that an unidentified person lobbed a grenade in front of the house of Bugallon candidate for vice mayor Rodrigo Orduna. The grenade exploded in front of the door of his house, did little damage and hurt no one.
Espino pointed out that Pangasinan has been known as a peaceful province with little track record of political violence for decades now.
“I don’t want anybody to stage-manage violent acts that make it appear that politics has anything to do with crimes in my province,” Espino stressed.
An independent and non-partisan investigation of the grenade blast will be the first decisive step to keep it that way, he said.
Most mayors and provincial officials of Pangasinan recently circulated a signed manifesto demanding the replacement of acting provincial police chief Marlowe Chan on charges of partisan politics and incompetence at preventing and solving an increasing number of unsolved shooting incidents in the province since he was assigned here.
A total of over 70 cases of unsolved shootings have been recorded in the province since Chan took over as police chief.
Besides the failure of the provincial police chief Chan to prevent and solve crimes, the petition to get him transferred also pointed out his practice of engaging in partisan politics in his home province and the unilateral reshuffling of 28 municipal police chiefs.
