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BY MERIANNE GRACE EREÑETA
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ILOILO City – An official of the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) Region 6 said the bomb threat they received on Tuesday had nothing to do with the dismissal from office of Vice Mayor Rufino Palabrica III of Dingle, Iloilo.
DILG Region 6 served on Nov. 3 the order of the Office of the Ombudsman ousting Palabrica for dishonesty and grave misconduct.
DILG offices receive all sorts of threats every now and then, said DILG-6 officer-in-charge Maria Calpiza Sardua.
On Nov. 8, DILG Region 6 received an email claiming a bomb would be exploding there anytime. Scared employees quickly left the regional office.
“Mga regional offices nakabaton man sila sang death threats through email. Indi man ‘ya gin-single out ang Region 6 ah,” said Sardua.
The email was sent to DILG Region 6’s Local Government Monitoring and Evaluation Division on the second floor of the regional office.
“It was supposed to explode daw at 3 p.m. Naka-Tagalog ang sender who identified himself as Alexander Yanger,” said Sardua.
The Gmail email service was used to threaten the regional office.
The local Philippine National Police immediately sent its Explosives and Ordnance Division, Special Weapons and Tactics team and bomb-sniffing dogs to the DILG Region 6 office.
After a thorough check of the building, the police declared it safe and bomb-free.
“The email was sent to other email addresses, too, even to hotels and banks all over the country. So this totally ruled out the possibility that the threat had anything to do with our serving of the Office of the Ombudsman order to the vice mayor of Dingle,” said Sardua.
The Ombudsman found Dingle’s Palabrica of using a dummy for his company to bag construction projects of the municipal government./PN
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