Quit calls for DILG, PNP, Com group chiefs mount
By Gerry Baldo,Charlie V. Manalo and Angie M. Rosales 08/26/2010 The public wants blood over the botched hostage rescue crisis that tragically ended the lives of eight Hong Kong tourists, with the debacle the latest black mark on the government and its police force. Resignation calls are mounting, and the calls are for Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) Secretary Jesse Robredo and Secretaries Ricky Carandang and Herminio Coloma of the Presidential Communications Development and Strategic Planning Group, saying they should take responsibility for the fatal blunders in handling the hostage crisis last Monday and do the decent thing, which is to resign. Albay Rep. Edcel Lagman, House minority leader, said the Aquino government failed in solving the hostage crisis that left more than eight dead. The hostage taker was also killed. He called for the voluntary resignation of these secretaries and for President Aquino to fire them, if they do not resign. “Robredo failed to take full control of the situation and did not immediately respond to the scene of the crisis which lasted 11 hours,” said Lagman. “Carandang and Coloma failed to rein in media practitioners from broadcasting live police rescue operations.Neither a postmortem of the tragic hostage-taking fiasco nor a contrite presidential apology will be enough if the heads of high ranking responsible officials are spared.” “The Aquino administration failed miserably, leading to the death of 9 hostages,” Lagman said at a press conference yesterday at the executive offices of the House minority bloc. The hostage-taker, former police senior Inspector Rolando Mendoza, was also killed by a police sniper..... MORE Source: The Daily Tribune URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/headlines/20100826hed1.html |
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