150k bounty put up for killer of Bohol broadcaster

A P150,000 reward has been offered for information leading to the arrest of the killer of Bohol radio commentator Maurito Lim.

 

The Tagbilaran police announced the offer as it formed Task Force Mao to probe Lim's murder, GMA News stringer Leo Udtohan reported.

 

 

The National Union of Journalists of the Philippines late Saturday challenged the government to act swiftly to get the killer of Lim.

 

Lim was gunned down while about to report for work at dyRD in Tagbilaran City on Saturday.

 

"We have run out of words of condemnation in the face of the murder of yet another colleague," the NUJP said.

 

"While we seriously doubt demanding justice will get us, or Maurito Lim’s family and colleagues, anywhere, we challenge the government to prove us wrong by acting swiftly to solve the case, arrest the killers and, most important, the mastermind who ordered his death," it added.

 

The NUJP noted Lim had been hitting hard at local officials linked to the illegal drug trade - lest government "chalk this one up to another 'non-work related' death."

 

The NUJP said Lim was about to alight from his car in front of dyRD before noon Saturday when a motorcycle-riding gunman shot him.

 

Citing initial reports, it said the bullet hit Lim in the left jaw and exited on the other side of his face.

 

Lim was rushed to the Governor Celestino Gallares Memorial Hospital, but died around 1:15 p.m.

 

"Maurito Lim is the second journalist murdered in Bohol, the 172nd since 1986, and the 31st under the administration of Benigno Aquino III," the group said. —Joel Locsin/NB, GMA News