Palace to Palparan: Surrender now
A Malacañang official on Wednesday urged retired Maj. Gen. Jovito Palparan, in hiding after he was charged for the kidnapping of two student activists five year ago, to surrender to authorities.
In a statement, presidential spokesman Edwin Lacierda described Palparan as someone who was “lavishly coddled by the former administration.”
“It is incumbent upon Mr. Palparan to submit to the authorities and face the charges in court,” Lacierda said of the once "bold" and "brazen" former military official. “We would hope that he will face the music and face the charges. Surrender now.”
Palparan has yet to surface after a Bulacan court issued an arrest warrant against him and three others for the abduction and disappearance of University of the Philippines students Karen Empeno and Sherlyn Cadapan in 2006.
"Interior Secretary Jesse Robredo and Justice Secretary Lila de Lima have formed a joint task force composed of the Philippine National Police and the National Bureau of Investigation for the purpose of finding, arresting, and detaining the fugitive Palparan," Lacierda said.
On Monday, Palparan was prevented from boarding a Singapore-bound plane at the Diosdado Macapagal International Airport in Pampanga as he was on the Immigration watch list.
After Palparan’s retirement from the military in 2006, he won a seat in Congress through Bantay, the anti-communist party-list group he heads. Just before he retired, then-President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo publicly commended him during her State of the Nation Address
Aside from Palparan, also ordered arrested were Lt. Col. Felipe Anotado Jr., S/Sgt. Edgardo Osorio, and M/Sgt. Rizal Hilario. Anotado and Osorio are already in police custody after they surrendered to authorities Tuesday afternoon. - Amita O. Legaspi/KBK, GMA News
In a statement, presidential spokesman Edwin Lacierda described Palparan as someone who was “lavishly coddled by the former administration.”
“It is incumbent upon Mr. Palparan to submit to the authorities and face the charges in court,” Lacierda said of the once "bold" and "brazen" former military official. “We would hope that he will face the music and face the charges. Surrender now.”
Palparan has yet to surface after a Bulacan court issued an arrest warrant against him and three others for the abduction and disappearance of University of the Philippines students Karen Empeno and Sherlyn Cadapan in 2006.
"Interior Secretary Jesse Robredo and Justice Secretary Lila de Lima have formed a joint task force composed of the Philippine National Police and the National Bureau of Investigation for the purpose of finding, arresting, and detaining the fugitive Palparan," Lacierda said.
On Monday, Palparan was prevented from boarding a Singapore-bound plane at the Diosdado Macapagal International Airport in Pampanga as he was on the Immigration watch list.
After Palparan’s retirement from the military in 2006, he won a seat in Congress through Bantay, the anti-communist party-list group he heads. Just before he retired, then-President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo publicly commended him during her State of the Nation Address
Aside from Palparan, also ordered arrested were Lt. Col. Felipe Anotado Jr., S/Sgt. Edgardo Osorio, and M/Sgt. Rizal Hilario. Anotado and Osorio are already in police custody after they surrendered to authorities Tuesday afternoon. - Amita O. Legaspi/KBK, GMA News
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