GO readies
charges vs 12-0 operators
‘Maguindanao results stink to high heavens’
BY DENNIS GADIL
SENATE minority leader Aquilino "Nene"
Pimentel yesterday said the Genuine Opposition (GO) will sue
election operators who gave Team Unity a 12-0 victory in
Maguindanao province.
"We will sue the election operators, Comelec
officials who worked with them, and officials of the board of
canvassers who looked the other way while massive fraud was
being done," Pimentel said.
The Team Unity camp just shrugged off the
accusations of cheating.
THE Commission on Elections yesterday
suspended elections in five more areas in the Autonomous Region
in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM), bringing the total to 18.
Commissioner Rene Sarmiento said these areas
are the municipality of Indanan in Sulu, three barangays in
Akbar, and a barangay in Sumisip, both in Basilan.
Elections were postponed earlier in 13
municipalities of Lanao del Sur.
THE PNP yesterday placed under restrictive
custody five members of the Southern Tagalog Police-Regional
Special Operations Group for their alleged participation in the
burning of the Pinagbayanan Elementary School in Taysan,
Batangas a day after the elections.
A teacher and a poll watcher were killed.
Police had initially blamed the New People’s Army.
The highest ranking of the five is a police
inspector (equivalent to lieutenant in the military) who acted
as the team leader. They are now under detained at Camp Vicente
Lim in Canlubang, Laguna, home of the Southern Tagalog Police
Office.
