BACOLOD City – The police should be stricter in implementing the city ordinance on riding-in-tandem, Mayor Evelio Leonardia said.
On Saturday, four gunmen on motorcycles shot to death Barangay 16 captain Nelson “Jun-jun” Ligaya Jr.
The shooting happened outside a beer house in Purok Paloma around 9:30 p.m.
Chief Inspector Sherlock Gabana, public information officer of the Bacolod City Police Office (BCPO), said Ligaya was on a drinking binge with friends when he was sprayed with bullets.
Leonardia mulled asking the Bacolod City Police Office to establish more checkpoints around the city, and implement stricter spot inspections.
City Ordinance 832, series of 2017, an ordinance regulating the practice of riding- in-tandem on motorcycles, made it unlawful for any driver and his back rider to ride in tandem on a motorcycle on any given day from 9 p.m. to 5 a.m.
According to Councilor Dindo Ramos, if the ordinance were implemented well, it would lead to lesser lives lost.
The ordinance is supposed to be jointly implemented by the City Legal Office, Bacolod Traffic Authority Office, and the BCPO, Ramos added.
Ligaya’s killers – who were wearing facemasks – exited along Yulo Street going to the south.
Cops recovered four spent bullet shells of a .45 pistol and three deformed slugs from the scene of the crime.
Probers so far learned that Ligaya owed from loan sharks large sums of money.
They were not dismissing the possibility that the shooting was politically-motivated or drug-related./PN
