Patrol posts revived to stop Kalinga road robs

By Peter A. Balocnit

TABUK CITY, Kalinga - The Office of the Congressman here recently reactivated the highway task force to watch over national roads of hold-uppers and robbers.

Ruben Tuazon, the Congressman’s point man on peace and order concerns, said highway patrol posts established along the Tabuk-Tuguegarao national road were revived to protect commuters against highway robbery.

Services of highway guards were stopped after the election due to lack of funds.

With the spate of hold-up incidents, the urgency of it has been recognized, hence its revival, Tuazon said.

Tuazon said six camps were established along the highway from Nambaran to Spring in Rizal with two watchmen assigned each daily.

They are employed and paid under the peace and order campaign program of the office of the congressman.

He said the Nambaran-Agbannawag section of the Tabuk-Isabela national road is being taken cared of by peacepact holders, local officials, and elders of barangays along said road stretch.

The two adjacent barangays of Lacnog and Nambaran along the Tabuk-Isabela road made a memorandum of agreement for a joint effort of protecting the distance between them against highway robbers.

He said cases of hold-ups and robbery stopped during the operation of the camps manned by watchmen from the communities along the highways themselves.

Hold-ups along the said highways have been a perennial problem in the past that tolled on lives of businessmen from other provinces.