Manhunt on for ex-SBMA Guards
Published in The Manila Times
(January 20, 2000)
IBA, Zambales -- Police launched a manhunt for former security guards of ousted Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority chair Richard Gordon after the Regional Trial Court here ordered them arrested for the killing seven years ago of a 35-year-old fisherman from Morong, Bataan.
Zambales RTC judge Rodolfo Toledano issued Friday a warrant of arrest without bail against Caesario Bada Jr. former SBMA security department manager and a number of still unidentified SBMA security personnel for the death of Santos Noga on Jan. 30, 1993.
Based on the sworn statements olfwitnesses, the incident took place in a fishing village in San Antonio town of this province, where armed SBMA security personnel led by Bada arrived around two in the afternoon allegedly to conduct an investigation and a census.
Among the houses visited by the SBMA guards was that of Rogelio Rio in Sitio Lansi, Barangay Silangin where Noga was visiting.
Witnesses said Noga was ordered to go out of the Rio house and taken near the beach where SBMA guards began beating him. He was later taken to a farther place where the beating was resumed.
Patrick T Roxas,
Correspondent
