ALAMINOS–The city government of Alaminos offered to pay P500,000 for the information that could lead to the apprehension of the perpetrators who killed Councilor Salvador Camba, 56, president of the city’s Liga ng Barangay, last Oct. 26.

The amount of P500,000 was pledged by Mayor Arthur Celeste a day after the slaying when the Pangasinan Police Provincial Official formed a Special Investigation Task Group (SITG) to probe the slaying and track down the killers.

“I hope the police will give priority attention to solve his murder and arrest the suspects,” Celeste said.

He said Camba was among his closest political allies whom he once tapped to run with him as his candidate for vice mayor but politely rejected it.

Camba, two-time barangay captain of Bued, was a businessman and involved in fishponds, piggery, salt-making and in building fishing boats and speed boats and did not have a bodyguard.

Camba was going home after visiting his piggery, when two men riding in tandem on a motorcycle shot him several times. He sustained seven gun shot wounds on his body and another two on the head from caliber .45.

He died on arrival at the Western Pangasinan District Hospital.

P/Supt. Benjamin Ariola, chief of police of Alaminos City, said they are eyeing two motives, either personal or business-related.

He was not involved in illegal drugs instead he was a staunch supporter of the administration’s war on drugs.

P/Supt. Jackie Candelario, deputy police provincial director for operations, confirmed he is not in the list of suspected drug personalities.

Ariola, however, confirmed that prior to the slaying, Camba had been receiving death threats and had reported it to the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group. (Leonardo Micua, Tita Roces)

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