Task Group Condez of the Aklan Philippine National Police does not stop in merely filing a murder charge against the alleged gunman in the killing of the Ati tribe spokesman in Boracay. It as well, extends its investigation to finding the “brain” behind the heinous crime.
Aklan Provincial Director PSSupt Pedrito Escarilla, TG Condez Head and PSINSP Joeffer Cabural, Chief, of the PNP’s Boracay Tourists Assistance Center (BTAC) revealed during the 8th Regular Session of the Aklan Sangguniang Panlalawigan on Wednesday, March 13, 2013. Police authorities in Aklan were summoned by Aklan SP to seek an update on the case against those responsible for the gunslaying of Dexter Condez, Boracay Ati tribe spokesman in Boracay Island in the evening of Feb. 22, 2013.
According to Cabural, overt and covert follow-up investigation on the case is still on-going aimed at identifying the mastermind behind the killing.
This, Escarilla and Cabural said because the police believe that it is possible the suspect was hired to silence Condez. The police have theorized that the present land dispute over a 2.1 hectare land occupied by the Ati community is taken seriously as the motive of the killing.
Said police official reported that Condez had been very vocal on his fight for their ancestral rights over the land being disputed by two or more claimants.
By killing Condez, the assassins were motivated to sow fear among the Ati community in order for them not to pursue their claim over the disputed land.
Condez, 26 years old, organizer and spokesperson of the Ati community in Boracay, was gunned down by the alleged assassin at about 8:45 in the evening of Feb.22 at Sitio Lugutan, Manoc-manoc, Boracay while walking towards the Ati village in the company of a certain Edelyn S. Tamboon and Leonida T. Bartolome.
The Ati spokesman suffered gunshot wounds at his left shoulder, left armpit, left chest, right armpit, right arm, right upper eyebrow and right face. He was pronounced dead on arrival at the Dr. Ciriaco S. Tirol Hospital in Boracay Island.
Escarilla and Cabural reported that five witnesses surfaced and issued corroborating statements, though circumstantial, detailing the facial and body description of the suspect who was later identified as Daniel Celestino. The police said that according to one of the witnesses, the suspect with a companion was seen in the morning of Feb. 22 at the Ati community village at Lugutan, Manoc-manoc riding on a green Rascal Motorcycle. Both hurriedly left when Condez went out of his house.
On February 26, Cabural said, a criminal case for murder was filed against Daniel Celestino and John and Peter Does at the provincial prosecutor’s office in Kalibo, Aklan.
The police said the suspect was a former security guard of a security agency but later resigned and became a bodyguard of a ranking executive of a resort which also claims ownership over the disputed land occupied by the Ati community. /MP
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