AFP P19.25M reward to informers a rip-off

It’s simply a rip-off, an organized racket. The Armed Forces of the Philippines has no right to brag about the capture of ‘terrorist personalities and communist leaders’ through their so-called informants. It’s a shame that it spent P19.25 million of the nation’s money for capturing and torturing people like security guard Rolly Panesa and presenting him as “Benjamin Mendoza”, a high-ranking official of the Communist Party of the Philippines, for the prize of P5.6 million.

The AFP committed the same violation to Oligario Sebas, a resident of Tuburan, Cebu, who was also jailed because of the AFP’s claim that he is “Felimon Mendrez”, allegedly a CPP leader in Negros. The military said Sebas had a P5.2 million on his head and was on the list of the Department of National Defense(DND)-Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) Joint Orders on Reward or Joint Order #14. Sebas was released through a writ of habeas corpus.