By Ronron
March 5, 2008
The Philippine National Police (PNP) is creating a task group to arrest former Basilan Representative Gerry Salapuddin and other accused in relation to the Batasan blast last year.
PNP Deputy Chief for Administration Dep. Dir. Gen. Jesus Verzosa told reporters in Camp Crame on Wednesday that the task group will be headed by the director of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG), Chief Supt. Raul Castañeda, and will have elements of the Quezon City Police, the Police Regional Office 9, and the
Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) as members.
He said the task group will have about 20 personnel in all.
"We have received information that the warrant against the suspects of the Batasan bombing will be coming out. So, in anticipation, we have formed a task group specifically to implement the warrant when it comes out, and also as a matter of securing the other suspects in our custody," Verzosa said.
A personnel of Quezon City Regional Trial Court Branch 83 said an arrest warrant may be released in the coming days or weeks against Salapuddin and other individuals for the bombing at the House of Representatives last November 13, 2007.
The incident killed Basilan Rep. Wahab Akbar and some employees at Congress, and wounded several others. Police have said that it was a plot of Salappudin, intended to kill Akbar, a political nemesis.
The suspects are charged with multiple murder and multiple frustrated murder.
Verzosa said they expect that the subjects of the warrant will cooperate as he assured them of "according their rights" during the service of the warrants.
"We hope that the cooperation from the suspects will be held because in the preliminary investigation of the case, they have been cooperating, and they have submitted their counter-affidavits," he said.
Verzosa said that as of this time, three suspects are under police custody while four others have yet to be accounted./DMS
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