THE hospital director of the Region 1 Medical Center (R1MC) in Dagupan City has appealed to authorities to speed up the investigation and arrest suspects in the kidnapping of its two health workers in broad daylight last March 12 along A.B. Fernandez East this city.

Dr. Roland Joseph Mejia told newsmen on Monday they are still clueless why their nursing attendants, John Mark Poyaoan and Rizaldy Decano, both residents of Barangay Lucao here, were kidnapped by six suspects wearing ski-masks on board a van.

Report from P/Superintendent Jandale Sulit, city police chief, said the two victims were riding in tandem on a motorcycle going east direction when a gold Starex van with plate number CSX 312 blocked their way and forcibly boarded them at gunpoint. Their motorcycle was left in the scene.

Mejia denied reports the two are his bodyguards but he admitted that they sometimes go to his home, near the place where the two were snatched, to bring documents for his signature.

Lawyer Gerald Gubatan, legal counsel of R1MC, said in the same interview that, the Philippine National Police, National Bureau of Investigation and the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group are now working on the case.

Mejia said the investigators are following a lead but they did not reveal the details in order not to jeopardize their operations.

“We hope to know the truth and to find out why they did this to them,” he said.

He added that the two have no criminal record or enemies in their work as evidenced by their police and NBI records submitted to their office.

The two were hired at the R1MC five years ago and they are occupying permanent positions.

Decano’s wife, Jenny, accompanied by their son, appealed to the abductors to release the victims.

“Please, have mercy on them, have mercy on us. Please release them. They are not bad people, they have no enemies. What do you want from them?,” Jenny said. (Eva Visperas)

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