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THE wife of RCBC robbery-slay prime suspect Ricardo “Edgar”
Gomolon has requested the help of the Commission on Human Rights to
probe the National Capital Region Police Office for the “wrongful
arrest” of her husband.
Leah Gomolon said in Filipino that her husband
is just a fall guy and insisted that he will not do something bad
despite the hardships that they are encountering.
Gomolon filed her appeal for justice and release
before the rights commission on June 30.
The commission responded with special human
rights investigator Nick Agustin going to the
the residence of the Gomolons on Tuesday to
conduct an investigation.
Jose Ma. Solis, Gomolon’s lawyer, said the
police “arrested the wrong man.”
Even the neighbors of Gomolons testified that
the suspect was in their community at Barangay 31, Southside, Makati
on May 16, when the RCBC heist and murder happened.
However, Metro Manila police chief Director
Geary Barias has been insisting that Gomolon had been positively
identified by a nine-year-old girl as one of the bank robbers.
On May 16, a group of armed men entered the RCBC
branch in Cabuyao before it opened and killed eight employees and a
client’s representative on the spot, and fled with some P12
million. Another employee died two days later in a hospital.
Leah Gomolon said her husband has two jobs: as a
maintenance man for the community’s Consular Water Services
Cooperative during daytime; and as a Barangay Tanod or civilian
volunteer officer during night time.
-- Ira Karen Apanay
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