Some hours later, in a short report, the Bayawan City police station said three persons were arrested in hot pursuit operations at around 4:20 pm in Sitio Punong, Barangay Kansumalig, Bayawan City. Degamo, 56, was killed just outside his family’s residential compound in Barangay 9, in Pamplona town, while attending an event for 4Ps beneficiaries.Īccording to his wife, Pamplona Mayor Janice Degamo, the late governor passed away at around 11:41 am. On Saturday, March 4, Negros Oriental’s longtime governor was killed, along with eight others, by armed assailants wearing camouflage uniforms and bulletproof vests and using long firearms. But now that this happened, the stories are beginning to make sense that there was a pattern of impunity within the area.” I mean, now, it’s very hard to imagine this happening before. It’s a pattern of impunity that we did not sense before. Remulla also noted that authorities were seeing a “pattern of impunity” in Negros Oriental. He added the justice department was also investigating other murder cases “that are being bruited about.” The DOJ chief’s remarks were in response to a reporter’s question on whether the Philippine government was officially probing Negros Oriental 3rd District Representative Arnolfo “Arnie” Teves Jr. “ Basta ang sinasabi ko sa inyo (What I’m telling you is), we’re investigating anybody with the possible culpability. We are not exempting anybody,” Remulla told reporters on Thursday, March 9. “We’re investigating everybody who may have something to do with what has been happening in Negros Oriental. MANILA, Philippines – Days after the brazen killing of Negros Oriental Governor Roel Degamo, Department of Justice (DOJ) Secretary Jesus Crispin “Boying” Remulla said authorities would probe anyone who might have a possible connection to the governor’s death.
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