For our special presentation on Straight from the Sky, allow me to bring to your TV screens a senatorial candidate whom I have known a long time ago. He was Department of the Interior and Local Government secretary during the time of former president Gloria Macapagal Arroyo. He is no other than former secretary Raffy Alunan who is also with his son, Rafa Alunan, who is running also for partylist member. I wanted to present them because they are the people who should be in the Senate.
So please watch Raffy and Rafa Alunan where they give the right information on how the country should be run. This is on SkyCable’s channel 53 at 8 p.m. with replays on Wednesday and Saturday same time and channel. We also have replays on MyTV’s channel 30 at 9 p.m. Monday and at 7 a.m. and 9 p.m. on Wednesday and Friday.
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The big breaking news for Cebu was the report that a combined team of policemen and agents of the National Bureau of Investigation arrested Jonas Bueno in Barangay Matina Pangi in Davao City. He was supposedly the principal suspect in the gruesome murder of 16-year-old Christine Lee Silawan in Cebu. Authorities closed in on Bueno after he was identified through social media. NBI assistant Regional Director Jonathan Balite said Bueno admitted faking his identity to evade arrest, and then admitted participating in other killings but denied killing Silawan.
So the first thing that the NBI should look into is, whether or not Bueno was in Cebu, specifically in Lapu-Lapu City on March 10 when Silawan was killed. I mean, it would be downright reckless for our police authorities to inform the media that the killer of Silawan has been arrested when Bueno already confessed to the killing of the farmer in Danao. At this point, we must seriously look into the reasons why Bueno confessed to killing the farmer, but not Silawan.
At this point, we know too well that no bounty was offered for the farmer’s killer, but the killer of Silawan has a huge bounty on his head and I suspect that it is easier for the police to pin the blame on Bueno so they can collect the bounty for Silawan. Just because the police believe that the killer of the farmer employed the same kind of skinning on their victims is merely circumstantial.
The Philippine National Police said they have retrieved text messages from one of Silawan’s relatives that indicated the suspect had communicated with the victim before the killing. Now if that message connects to Bueno, then he is doomed. At this point, perhaps it is high time that we get a full record of all the cults in the Philippines. I’m sure that there are many even here in Cebu, we already learned of a murder in Toledo City. But how many more are there? It is high time for President Duterte to look into these nefarious practices.
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Last Friday afternoon, my brother Bing showed me a video of the mass shooting in two mosques in New Zealand perpetrated by Australian national, Brendon Tarrant, who used a portable video camera as he entered one mosque and began firing his automatic weapon at anyone he saw standing. He fired indiscriminately and even reloaded his weapon when he ran out of bullets. Then he got out of the mosque and fired at a woman who was around 50 yards away. As he walked towards his car, he fired at the same woman who had already fallen face down on the road. He boarded his car and fled, running over the dead woman.
No doubt this was the worst mass killing in the history of Christchurch, New Zealand, that left 49 people dead and another 48 injured. This was the first ever terror attack by a single person who then uploaded the video of his killings on social media. He was intercepted by two rural community cops who arrested him 36 minutes after the first emergency call was made. There is no doubt that he was a white supremacist, not really a terrorist.
The first reaction of New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern was to ban semi-automatic weapons. This is the problem of most leaders; they end up blaming firearms as the cause of the problem. If only some of the 49 who were killed had firearms with them then that someone could have shot the killer and perhaps, there would have been fewer people killed!