DAVAO CITY, Philippines (Mindanao Examiner / Oct. 11, 2008) – Three members of the Davao City Council are allegedly the target of assassinations in Mindanao, the official Philippine News Agency reported Saturday.
It said Davao City Deputy Mayor Sara Duterte will meet with security officials in a bid to confirm assassination plots against the trio.
Duterte said City Councilor Arnolfo Ricardo Cabling reportedly is in the hit-list of the New People’s Army (NPA) and an assassin had been sent down from the mountains of Paquibato district to carry out the hit job.
City Councilors Peter Lavina and Angela Trinidad, known for their leftist bent, are also the subject of the same operations apparently by soldiers.
Cabling said he does not know why he could be in the hit list, saying he has no debt to the people. Cabling is the chair of the committee on housing, rural and urban development, and has lately been praised for his efforts to provide socialized housing to the homeless urban poor.
On the other hand, Lavina has deplored reports saying he has a house in far-flung Barangay Tamayong in Calinan district that he loaned out to communist rebels.
Trinidad has complained she is being tailed by suspicious persons and that allegedly could only be from the military.
Trinidad, daughter of the late militant firebrand Kilusang Mayo Uno (KMU) chairperson Erasto Librado is a ranking official of the leftist Bayan Muna, branded by the military as a legal front organization of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP).
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