Mameng now witness on kidnapping incident on ABS-CBN news team and professor

Miami
June 30, 2008
Story 1:Mameng now witness on kidnapping incident on ABS-CBN news team and professor

The guide of ABS-CBN News Team and the professor who went in Jolo, Sulu last June 8 is now considered as witness for the complaint against the father and son Isnaji who are now suspects for the kidnapping incident.

Juamil “Mameng” Biyaw is now at the custody of the PNP Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) as he is now being considered as a witness. CIDG Director Chief Supt. Raul Castaneda said that on Biyaw statement he said that he has personal knowledge on the involvement of the Mayor Alvarez Isnaji on the kidnapping of Ces Drilon, Jimmy Encarnacion, Angelo Valderama and Professor Octavio Dnampo.

Biyaw guided the news team and the professor on the destination that they will go to in Barangay Ajid, Indanan, Sulu. Biyaw also said that Dinampo contacted him for a possible interview with Abu Sayyaf Leader leader Radullon Sajiron because he has contact on the said person.

“What I know is that the Mayor has involvement on the kidnapping because when we arrived at the area and was approached by the armed men who were waiting for our arrival, one of them told me that I should leave the area because Mayor Isnaji will take charge and I will be out of the ‘program’,” Biyaw told the reporters.

On what is the meaning of the program that was mentioned to him he said he did not know whether it is the kidnapping incident but he was sure he heard the name of Isnaji. However, Biyaw did not divulge any other information and said that he might be contempt of court but assures that whatever he knew, he will say it on the Court.

Biyaw said that he left the place because he has a fever at that moment and really wanted to rest.
During the preliminary investigation in the CIDG in Camp Crame, both parties, complainants, victims and the suspects view the video that Encarnacion has recorded when they were still in captivity. Encarnacion shot some stolen shot during their abduction and will be used as evidence against other kidnappers that are still at large.

Meanwhile, kidnap victims, Drilon, Encarnacion, and Valderama already filed their supplemental complaint against Isnaji.

According to Sr. Supt. Joel Coronel of the CIDG on the supplemental of the victims they did not directly link the Isnaji, “Though on the statement of Drilon, she said that she has her doubts on mayor Isnaji because during their captivity she sense that Isnaji is not negotiating for their release but for the ransom money.”

PNP Director General Avelino Razon admitted that the PNP is the one who really file the case at the DOJ, “We are the one who pursue the case, whatever supplemental that the victims may add will be helpful for the case.”

Razon also added, “They (Drilon, et al.) cannot positively pinpoint the Isnaji because they were confine in an area during their captivity, they could only relate on what they know on the situation where they were.”

The next hearing on the preliminary investigation is set on July 7, wherein they are expecting Sulu Vice-Governor Lady-An Sahidulla to appear at the hearing and to give information on what she know about the incident or the possibly involvement of the Isnaji.