HOPEFULLY, A CLOSURE TO RESUELLO MURDER.  The many gun-for-hire groups uncovered and dismantled lately by the Pangasinan police clearly proves that crime does not pay and the long arm of the law will ultimately catch up with the perpetrators of dastardly crimes sooner or later.

It also proves that, in a not too distant past, killing for a fee was once a lucrative industry in Pangasinan. Talks were rife before that for a measly P10,000 paid to a killer, an innocent man could be gunned down and killed.

Many, in fact, had already died violently and their deaths became just parts of piles upon piles of cold cases in the hands of the police.

Today, we note that this month of October, the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) and other police units bagged three personalities believed to be behind many if not most, of the unsolved killings in Pangasinan.

Those arrested are being linked with guns–for-hire groups believed to be operating in Pangasinan and the adjacent province of Nueva Ecija.

These included one Loida Gonzales Mendoza, a Fil-Am woman, tagged as the leader of the Gonzales guns-for-hire group, which the police said is also a newly identified guns-for-hire group in Lupao, Nueva Ecija; and the alleged leader and financier of the Pogito Group, another gun-for-hire group in Pangasinan.

Also arrested was John Tumabcao, a member of the Gonzales group and a newly identified member of the Ignacio guns-for-hire group.

The last one arrested was Monte Ignacio, 74, of Toboy, Asingan, tagged as the leader of the Ignacio group, who is a lawyer.

These groups incidentally are based in eastern Pangasinan. Now you know where the guns-for-hire were coming from.

All three were arrested on the strength of a warrant of arrest for double murder issued by Regional Trial Court Judge Jaime Dojillo of San Carlos City in connection with the slaying of Mayor Julian Resuello and his civilian bodyguard during a fiesta coronation night in April 2007 or more than 10 years ago.

All three are now behind bars and in the best position to spill the beans on who the real the mastermind was or the one who hired them and paid substantial amount of money to eliminate Mayor Resuello who was then just winding up his last and final term as mayor of San Carlos and was in fact running as vice mayor at the time he was killed.

Not only the kin of Mayor Resuello but also the people of San Carlos City and the rest of people of Pangasinan want to know the truth from the three to finally put closure to this cold case.

Their arrest 10 years after the bloody carnage in San Carlos City will be meaningless if the prosecutors of these cases cannot squeeze the info on who really paid them to do the crime, which everyone knows, was a well-planned one and was the work of professional killers.

It all puzzles me no end why it took lawmen 10 long years to have all three suspects arrested.

Does this mean that policemen today under the baton of General Ronald ‘Bato’ de la Rosa are more zealous in their works in hunting down criminals than before and the past ones did not do their homework right?

Now that the works of these guns-for-hire were finally uncovered, it is possible that the police will be absolved of the nagging public perception they were behind the tandem-riding criminals responsible for some of the killings in the streets.

Methinks that there are only few rotten eggs that can be counted by the fingers in the ranks of the police. The rest are upright and true to their oath as protectors of the people. – Leonardo Micua

 

DISAPPEARING STAFF. A physician at a public health office is having a hard time with the “now you see, now you don’t attitude of her staff”.

She was shocked to discover the problem after she assumed her post.

This doctor has been in government service for more than two decades already.

She wanted to serve her own birthplace so when opportunity knocked with a vacancy for the position as the LGU health officer, she naturally grabbed it.

It was a dream fulfilled.

But her dream was turning into a nightmare as she is surrounded by staff who have the magical ability to suddenly disappear from their work.

“Grabe irad dya. Mansikmat ira,” she was quoted telling another doctor who used to work with her in another LGU.

“Aka biometrics ira amo?,” I asked.

Apparently, the staff are so used to their disappearing act with the alibi that they’re in a barangay doing medical service (kuno), a source said.

“Na ma-migraine na si Doc kasi ang titigas ng ulo ng ilang staff nya” the source added.

Hindi ka nag-iisa, Doc. Isumbong mo sila sa HR officer nyo kaya?

Maybe a random check about whereabouts of staff would help in curbing the attitudinal problem of government workers, supposed to be public servants.

I can try to help and whisper this malpractice to your mayor. Let’s see if the mayor is willing to call out the stubborn lazy LGU staff. – Eva Visperas 

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