by Franklin P. Gumapon
DIPOLOG CITY, April 9 (PIA) - - The officers of the Dipolog Chamber of Commerce and Industry (DCCI) headed by Atty. Paul Gudmalin have recently called on all law enforcement agencies to immediately solve the heinous crimes happening in the area.
Local businessmen got alarmed by a spate of kidnapping in Zamboanga del Norte victimizing the Filipino-Chinese community in the area.
It can be recalled that Mayor Jeffrey Lim of Salug town, son of a politician-businessman was forcibly taken by unidentified armed men while taking his dinner in an eatery at the municipality’s bus terminal last April 4.
The abductors took Lim aboard a multi-cab to Barangay Caracol where two white pump boats were waiting at the shores.
Police and military personnel are still searching the nearby towns of Leon Postigo, Godod, Liloy and Labason to rescue the victim.
P/Supt. Kenneth Mission, designated spokesman on the Lim kidnapping, told the Philippine Information Agency (PIA) that the victim is still within the vicinity of the aforesaid municipalities.
A certain Franc Oliver Lim, a poultry magnate, was also abducted at his poultry farm in Gulayon, Dipolog City almost six months ago. He was released by the kidnappers in February this year.
Two years ago, a grandson of a Filipino-Chinese businessman in Liloy town, some 160 kilometers of Dipolog and a neighboring municipality of Salug, was also kidnapped some two years ago. He was released in Basilan after months of negotiations with his kidnappers.
Local businessmen are now asking for an immediate solution to the kidnapping incident and early identification of the perpetrators. (FPG/PIA-Zamboanga del Norte)
