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Bantag illuded NBI dragnet
By J.Lo
“We will not stop here and continue looking for him,” vowed Assistant Regional Director Daniel Daganzo, NBI Special Investigator team leader of armed-to-the-teeth NBI-CAR contingent conducted raid to arrest former Bureau of Corrections chief Gerald Bantag.
For the second time,Bantag slipped from authorities early Saturday morning when agents of National Bureau of Investigation- Cordillera Administrative Region (NBI-CAR) went to one of the alleged lair of former corrections official in Mines View barangay in Baguio City.
NBI agents led by Daganzo, converged at around 6 in the morning Saturday before heading incognito toward building serving as headquarters of the Igorot Warriors International (IWI). However, they failed to locate Bantag.
Bantag is the chairman of IWI which fielded former BuCor chief’s brother as its number one nominee during May 2022 party-list elections.
IWI had also been forefront of organizing solidarity street demonstrations and gatherings in Baguio City supporting Bantag.
NBI agents sought to issue warrant of arrest against Bantag for murder of broadcaster Percy Lapid and two more BuCor prisoners who accused former official of ordering their killing.
NBI agents earlier raided two houses in Laguna province and Marikina City allegedly being used by Bantag but failed to corner the fugitive.
Bantag had been sending surrender feelers to the government since last year, including his turning in to very influential official from the North very close to President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., but had not fulfilled such promise apparently irritating the Department of Justice.
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