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Duterte offers P2-M bounty for each cop in alleged Parojinog death squad


President Rodrigo Duterte on Wednesday offered a P2-million bounty for the arrest of every policeman involved in the alleged killings said to be sanctioned by Ozamiz City's Parojinog clan.

Duterte made the announcement during the 116th Police Service anniversary in Camp Crame.

"Do not go into the contraband itself, like the policemen who are now shortlisted in the killing of so many civilians buried there at a cemetery [at] the back of a barangay hall. Each of those policemen carry on their head now, I am announcing, [a bounty of] P2 million," Duterte said.

"Dead or alive. Better dead because [if not] I have to pay for [their] funeral parlor [expense], that's an added expense," he added.

The President said that some of the policemen assigned in Ozamiz City were killed for going against Mayor Reynaldo Parojinog’s illegal activities.

“There were a lot of policemen murdered by Mayor Parojinog including the killers of those policemen with him,” he said.

Duterte also warned the policemen in Ozamiz City that he would visit them soon.

“I will be visiting Ozamiz. I will not tell you when,” he said.

“But I will warn the policemen there, ‘yung kasama ni Parojinog and his cahoots who are members of the PNP and who were responsible for the deaths of the six soldiers before, you will have your comeuppance,” he added.

Duterte even urged the policemen to hunt down the errant cops he just mentioned about.

“You are free to go on leave.  You just  a—I’ll cut short  my speech here. So that you will have a chance for a crack at the two million for those idiots of your men there f— the Filipino,” he said.

Duterte included Parojinog on his drug list. He was killed in a drug operations at his home, along with his wife, brother, and at least 13 others. — NB/KVD/RSJ, GMA News