NBI director Reynaldo Wycoco said Mayor Pindulangan Juhayra Abinal allegedly arranged the drug deal between NBI undercover agents and suspect Juhary Galo, 31, himself a mayoralty candidate in Lumba-Bayabao, Lanao del Sur.
Galo and another suspect, a certain Angkaya Pamlian, are at large.
Their alleged cohorts, Feliciano Alli, 20, a student of Perpetual Help College in Sampaloc, Manila; and Aries Pajuyo, 22, a Sangguniang Kabataan councilor in Manila’s Barangay 451, were arrested during the buy-bust. — Mike Frialde