11 police chiefs replaced
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FREEPORT, Pampanga – Fourteen persons were killed while seven others were
hurt in recent poll-related ambushes in Nueva Ecija, reason why the Commission on Elections should declare the
province an election hotspot amid escalating cases of political violence, a
lawmaker said.
Nueva
Ecija Fourth District Rep. Rodolfo Antonino said 14 persons were killed and
seven others were wounded in recent ambushes in the province.
“Eleven
of the incidents occurred this year, including six last September,”
Antonino said at a media forum here.
He
said among the victims were city and town councilors and barangay officials,
including former Association of Barangay Captains president Rick Ramos of
Talavera, chairman Cesar Baltazar of Barangay Luna, lay minister Nicanor
Toledo, former Quezon town councilor Daniel Lonzanida and barangay chairman
GarielRoxas of Cuyapa in Gabaldon.
On
Monday night, motorcycle-riding gunmen shot dead a former town councilor of
Quezon town.
Daniel
Lonzanida of Barangay Bertese, 46, was walking along the provincial road in
Purok Bertese around 6:30 p.m. when two men on a motorcycle pulled over to chat
with him, Police Officer 2 Rodelio Rivera, quoting witnesses, said.
Rivera
said two men on another motorcycle arrived and one of the riders shot Lonzanida
at close range.
Following
the killings, the Nueva Ecija police office
replaced 11 chiefs of police in two cities and nine towns for
inefficiency in addressing rising crime rate.
Provincial
police director Senior Supt. Manuel Cornel ordered replaced from their posts
the police chiefs of the towns of Quezon, Licab, Laur, General Tinio,
Pantabangan, Lupao, Nampicuan, Gabaldon and General Natividad, and the cities
of San Jose and Muñoz.
Cornel
designated Supt. PoncianoZafra, former deputy provincial director for
investigation, as police chief of Muñoz.
San
Jose City Mayor MarivicViolago-Belena personally requested immediate
relief of Supt. NolieAzuncion, who was replaced by Supt. Reynaldo dela
Cruz.
Cornel
cited overstaying, under-performance and mayors’ request as among the reasons
for the reshuffle.
The
police chiefs of Licab and Quezon reportedly failed to implement the
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