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House plobe on PI5.t

Batocabe bount!/ sought
By EDU PUNAY Philippine National Police chairman of the public
(PNP) should explain how it accounts committee. said
The House of Representatives will conduct an in- distributed the bounty. he supports the legi;lafivL
quiry into the disbursement of the p35 million reward Garbin said lawmakers mqurry.
for the arrest of the killers of Ako Bicol party-list Rep. who coheibuted p13 million Batocabe and his police
Rodel Batocabe last Decernber. wanted accountability from escort Orlando Diaz were
thE PNP. gunned down after a gift-
Minorilz leader and He said the witnesses also Pr€sident Duterte pitched giving event in Barangay
Manila sixih district Rep. expressed concem not onli, in P20 million while P2 mil-
Benny Abante Jr. sought the for their s#eW but also of' Burgos.
lion was raised by the Albav The supposed plot to kill
investigation under House their families. provincial govemment. Batocabe was hatched in
Resolution 384 in the exercise ,,Wibresses have expressed
of the oversight function their reluctance to t"rtif,
---- "We will wait for the PNP August last year after he an-
accounting on how it dis- nounced his plan to run for I
of the House and in aid of over the alleged failure io tributed the money among
legislation. mayor of Daraga.
deliver the b"ounv thii vJas the... witnesses... We want a Garbin had ariticized a
. ^Abante citedthat"disturbing promieed to them,. Abante,s fast resolution of this case,,, court ruling that allowed Jor-
information" several resolution read- Garbin said. mer Daraga mayor Qgllr,ryn
witnesses did not rcceive Ako Bicol partv-list Reo. Anakalusugan party. Baldo, the allegid mastenirind
their share of the bounty. Alfredo carb'in sjiJih;-' list Rep. Michael Defensoq, in the killing, to post bail.

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