CALUMPIT, Bulacan – Former Bulacan governor Roberto “Obet” Pagdanganan challenged provincial police officials to quit their posts if they cannot properly investigate the May 4 killing of his younger brother Ramon.
Ramon, who was gunned down while attending a fiesta celebration, was laid to rest at the Calumpit Memorial Park yesterday. He once served as mayor of this town.
Pagdanganan said his brother’s killing is just one of many unsolved cases in the province, and he took the police to task for this “widespread criminality.”
He insisted anew that police was involved in what he alleged to be a conspiracy to cover up his brother’s slay, scoring them for failing to act on his suspicion that a police major and a barangay chairman from Doña Remedios Trinidad town could be involved in the killing.
“None of them asked me for more details on the lead I mentioned. Instead they keep on releasing information on an unverified love triangle (as) motive in the murder of my brother,” he told reporters after the burial.
Probers reportedly secured a sworn statement from a woman who was with Ramon when he was killed. She claimed that Ramon, who she said was courting her, had a run-in with another suitor of hers, a businessman.
Earlier, police said two robbery suspects slain in a police shootout could be behind Ramon’s slay, although empty shells and slugs found in both incidents were still being matched.