Bounty for radioman's killers now P810,000

BACOLOD CITY, Philippines — The cash reward for anyone who can give information leading to the arrest of the killers of Iloilo-based radio block-timer Neil Jimena has been increased to P810,000.

Iloilo Press Club president Rommel Ynion, in a statement, said a Bacolod-based businessman has offered to add P200,000 to the bounty.

He, however, refused to name the businessman.

Ynion had earlier offered a reward of P500,000 through the Iloilo Press Club, for the arrest of the suspects, while the National Press Club has offered P100,000 more.

Panay News publisher Danny Fajardo has also reportedly offered another P10,000.

Jimena, who was gunned down in E.B. Magalona last August 22, was buried Sunday in his native town of San Rafael, Iloilo.

Meanwhile, murder charges have been filed against two suspects in the killing of Jimena.

Senior Supt. Allan Guisihan, Negros Occidental Police provincial director, said Jimena’s wife and his daughter, assisted by Task Group Jimena which he chairs, filed the charges Friday before the Provincial Prosecutor’s Office.

Guisihan, however, withheld the identities of the two suspects pending the court’s issuance of warrants of arrest. —THE FREEMAN