CEBU, Philippines — Police have offered P80,000 cash reward to anyone who can give information on the whereabouts of the remaining two suspects in the ambush-slay of broadcaster Dindo Generoso in Dumaguete City last week.
Negros Oriental Provincial Police Office director Col. Julian Entoma said the amount may increase up to over a million pesos because more donors have expressed their support to raise funds for the reward.
Entoma said the initial amount of cash reward was given by a concerned citizen. Police earlier arrested Teddy Salaw and retired policeman Glenn Corsame who were identified through the closed-circuit television (CCTV) footage as accomplices of the killer.
Salaw allegedly admitted driving the vehicle used by Police Corporal Roger Rubio, whom he tagged as the gunman. Corsame on the other hand was identified as the driver of the motorcycle where Rubio transferred when he shot Generoso at the intersection in Barangay Piapi, Dumaguete City in the morning of November 7.
Rubio is now considered absent without official leave after he failed to heed his superior’s order to report for investigation. The owner of the vehicle, Tomacino Aledro, has also fled after the incident.
Rubio and Aledro are now subject of police manhunt operation. At least five tracker teams had been deployed to look for them.
Entoma said they received information that Aledro, who is said to be a gambling lord, has already left the country while Rubio is still in Negros Oriental.
The Presidential Task Force on Media Security (PTFoMS) identified Aledro as financier of illegal gambling known as “bookies” with the Small Town Lottery (STL) of the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) operating in Negros Oriental.
Meanwhile, Police Regional Office-7 director Brigadier General Valeriano De Leon has directed Entoma to ensure a strong case against the suspects.
Generoso was driving his Hyundai Sedan on his way to his radio program in the morning of November 7 when he was shot dead. His job as “hard-hitting commentator” was among the motives the police are looking into.
Politics and land dispute are also among the angles that police investigators have considered. (FREEMAN)