BACOLOD CITY – A police manhunt is on for a person proven in a viral video firing his gun within the path of agrarian reform beneficiaries in Talisay Metropolis, Negros Occidental on Friday morning, Jan. 31.
Lt. Col. Salvador Trono Jr., Talisay police chief, mentioned they’re looking for the person who will face costs for violation of the Fee on Elections gun ban, grave threats and unlawful discharge of a firearm.
“The motive for the incident is a land dispute,” he mentioned.
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The person couldn’t be discovered within the addresses given to the police however their operations are ongoing to find and arrest him.
The video exhibits an offended man hearth his gun at a lady holding up a cellular telephone as different agrarian reform beneficiaries shout.
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He was within the firm of 5 others in civilian clothes, one in all whom was additionally visibly holding a gun.
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4 of the ladies had gone to the Talisay Police Station on Friday to complain and a manhunt is on for the gunman, Trono mentioned.
They mentioned they had been weeding when the armed males arrived.
Negros Occidental Provincial Election Supervisor Ian Lee Ananoria mentioned he additionally requested the police to research the matter for violation of the Comelec gunban.
Lani Issue, Activity Drive Mapalad deputy nationwide coordinator, mentioned a “goon,” being linked to an influential landlord/lessee in Talisay Metropolis, Negros Occidental, aimed a gun towards defenseless feminine peasants” at a sugar plantation in Barangay Dos Hermanas on Friday morning.
Unfazed at gunpoint, the ladies held smartphones towards the armed males.
The 50-hectare Hacienda San Antonio Dos had been awarded to the agrarian reform beneficiaries in 2001 when the Division of Agrarian Reform issued them their certificates of land possession award (CLOA).
Issue mentioned the awardees leased again a part of their land to a sure Paul Chang and wish to regain management of the land.
She mentioned “leaseholder Chang has no extra rights as his lease contract expired and proposals for extension had been rejected by the CLOA holders.”
Nevertheless, a supply mentioned Chang claims the agrarian reform beneficiaries bought the property to him and he has a certificates of sale.
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“This standoff has been ongoing for greater than per week now,” Issue mentioned.
