Seven Maguindanao police officers are in hot water and could face dismissal for neglect of duty at the height of the massacre of 58 people in Shariff Aguak on November 23.
The PNP high command has recommended the summary dismissal of Superintendent Abusama Mundas Maguid, officer in charge (OIC) of the Maguindanao PPO; Chief Inspector Sukarno Adil Dikay, deputy provincial director; Inspector Armando Sanday Mariga of the 1506th Provincial Mobile Group (PMG); Inspector Saudi Matabalao Mokamad of the 1507th PMG; Inspector Rex Ariel Tabao Diongon of the 1508th PMG; Senior Inspector Abdulgapor Benasing Abad of the 15th Regional Mobile Group; and SPO2 Badawi Piang Bakal of the Ampatuan Municipal Police Station.
In a report on its investigation of what is now known as the Maguindanao Massacre, the PNP said the Maguindanao police provincial office PPO remained clueless of the massacre even as other police agencies were verifying reports on the gruesome mass murder blamed on the Ampatuans and their private army.
The Maguindanao provincial police insisted that “no such incident has transpired in their area of jurisdiction” and called the radio reports “exaggerated,” when the Regional Investigation and Detective Management Division (RIDMD) in the Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao (Armm) tried to verify the incident with the provincial police, said the PNP investigation report.
The PNP report said that with the provincial police clueless, the RIDMD then dispatched their own team to Maguindanao to discover the murder of 57 people, including the wife of Buluan Vice Mayor Esmael Mangudadatu and 30 journalists.
The RIDMD’s report on the provincial police has been submitted as vital evidence against the police officers.
In the report, RIDMD said that “other police officers and their men were present along the highway and were situated from 2 kilometers to 5 kilometers from where the actual abduction and eventual murders took place, and yet the subject police officers claimed to have not noticed anything unusual, nor heard bursts of gunfire, emanating from the killing fields.”
“Hence, it strengthens the presumption that they were trying to cover up the crime committed,” the RIDMD report added.
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