by Alma L. Tingcang
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PAGADIAN CITY, December 13 (PIA) - - Board
Member Ernesto Mondarte of the First District of Zamboanga del Sur has
filed Resolution No. 2k11-599 seeking
to ask the DFA to extend immediate legal assistance to the 3 Filipino fishermen
who were captured in Indonesia last month.
Mondarte, Chairman of the SP
Committee on Fire, Public Safety, Peace and Order asked Foreign Affairs
Secretary Alberto del Rosario to extend immediate legal assistance and other vital
needs of the three fishermen.
The three were caught by Indonesian
authorities on November 9 for fishing encroachment on the waters of the said
country, in spite of the Global Positioning System (GPS) on the Filipino
fishing boat indicating that they were still inside Philippine waters.
Four of the seven fishermen captured
were released upon consideration that they were married, while the 3,
including the owner of the fishing boat were detained in an undisclosed place
in Indonesia.
The three were identified as Ramil
Miranda, the boat owner, married, with 4 children who hails from Pagadian
City, Mark Johnny Yator, 21 years old and Lady Boy Prenciona, 18 years of
age.
Board Member Vicente Cajeta, Vice
Chairman of the same committee said they are plain and simple fishermen trying
to earn a living who have no other means to seek legal and moral support in
the foreign land. (ALT-PIA9/ZamboSur)
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