PNSA official welcomes probe into ‘missing’ clay

MANILA, Philippines — The chairman of the Philippine National Shooting Association Moving Target Aggrupation (shotgun) Committee, Dr. Adel Samson, is willing to cooperate with the investigation into the “missing” P1.93-million clay targets that were stored at the Philippine Sports Commission shooting range compound in Muntinlupa.

“Rest assured that the undersigned will cooperate, to the best of his ability, in the conduct of your investigation should that be necessary,” Samson wrote last May 12 in response to the demand letter sent by former PNSA president Luis “Chavit” Singson, Raul Arambulo and Eduardo Fernandez regarding the whereabouts of the said equipment.

Through the Divina Law firm headed by Atty. Nilo Divina, Singson, the current PNSA honorary chairman, Arambulo and Fernandez demanded last May 4 that the MTA Committee account for the clays that were stored in two containers that “disappeared.”

Aside from Samson, also named  in the letter were PNSA secretary-general Veneranda “Iryne” Garcia and Jerry Sun, who are both MTA Committee and PNSA board members. They were given five days to reply to the demand letter or face possible legal and other consequences.

The equipment was bought using personal money of the shotgun shooters through the PNSA, with the aid of the PSC, that were supposed to be used by them for  the development of the sport.

The complainants  also demanded the MTA Committee to present the MTA passbook where P343,231.21 was deposited for the use in purchasing the equipment of the shotgun shooters.