Mtn Prov anti- corruption advocate shot dead

Salvador Liked 

By Gina Dizon

BAUKO, MOUNTAIN PROVINCE - Five bullet wounds entered the body of anti -corruption advocate Salvador G. Liked, 44 and resident of   sitio Gutang, Balintaugan of this municipality causing his death late evening of September 2, 2020.

Bauko Chief of Police Ltnt Nestor Malinias said the body of Liked found in front of his residence bore gunshot wounds in his face, nape, back, and in between his chest and abdomen.

Police investigation revealed there were three gunshots heard when the crime happened. Three shells of caliber .45 and one slug was found in the vicinity of the crime.

Malinias surmised one bullet must have stayed inside the body of Liked which caused his death.

              A bullet entered his nape and exited in his face.

Two gunmen were seen by two witnesses but they were not identified as they were in bonnets, he added.

              Based on initial investigation, Liked was about to go to an on-going structure said to be his house near their old dwelling around 8:55 pm late evening of Wednesday when the incident happened.   

Asked on what could be the possible motive and if there are leads on the crime done, Malinias said a special investigation task group was formed to probe on said incident.

Liked is an anti-corruption advocate having filed a number of corruption cases against government officials and employees of Mountain Province and the regional department of public works and highways (DPWH( before the office of the Ombudsman, Commission on Audit (COA) and the Office of the Sandigan Bayan.

He is the secretary general of Citizens Crime Watch against Corruption- Mountain Province Chapter.  

He is also a barangay kagawad of Balintaugan and an active church leader of St Martin Church of the Episcopal Diocese of Northern Philippines (EDNP) actively helping in the construction of the on-going church building.  

As a barangay leader, he is instrumental in the sending of a request to national government for the construction of a proposed P20 million Balintaugan Multipurpose Barangay Hall.

Early this year, the Office of the Deputy Executive Secretary for Finance and Administration from the office of the President sent a letter to Secretary Eduardo Año of the department of Interior and local government (DILG) asking the latter’s appropriate action on the request of the barangay council of Balintaugan for the construction of said multipurpose hall.