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Aquino sees politics in Calbayog mayor's killing


President Benigno Aquino III on Sunday ordered the police and the military to ensure that violence will not erupt in Samar following the killing of Calbayog City Mayor Reynaldo Uy Saturday night. At a press conference after a Labor Day breakfast forum at Malacañang, Aquino said the incident maybe politically motivated, noting that there will be a recall election in the province. “May political tensions ang pagkakaintindi ko sa kanilang probinsya. Meron yatang ongoing or there will be a recall campaign. And I understand that Mayor Uy is planning to run if a recall would have prospered and the subsequent election would happen. The two people injured last night were the prospective governor and vice gubernatorial candidates," he said, referring to the two survivors in the ambush. Uy was a member of Aquino’s Liberal Party. Aquino said he had ordered Philippine National Police (PNP) chief Director General Raul Bacalzo to “ensure a speedy investigation the arrest of the people behind this dastardly act." “You know they were shot I understand while their heads were bowed in an invocation. Talagang iyun treachery, ang bigat pero we don’t want this violence to be a precursor of even more violence so I can assure the people in the province of Rey Uy, the police together with the Armed Forces will exert maximum efforts to ensure that the violence will be clamped down and there will be no untoward incidence and violence," he said. Aquino also told the regional and provincial police directors of the PNP that he is reviewing their performance and that he is expecting them to perform. He assured the public that despite the need to increase number of police in the country, “the government will not stop in putting behind bars everybody who violates the laws." — KBK, GMA News

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