4 Suspects Nabbed in Zambo Sur Ex-Vice Mayor Slay Try

Four suspects have been held by the police in the Lanao del Norte town of Maigo in connection with the gun attack on a former Zamboanga del Sur mayor Wednesday morning (March 20), an official said.

Police Captain Jake Peralta, chief of Maigo Municipal Police Station, said four men onboard a black pick-up vehicle was flagged down at a checkpoint minutes after the shooting incident that wounded Naciancino Pacalioga, a former mayor and vice mayor in
Dumingag town, Zamboanga del Sur.

A police report said Pacalioga, 57, had just got out from his vehicle in Barangay Esperanza, Bacolod in Lanao del Norte to urinate when he was shot by unidentified suspects on a motorbike.

He was on his way to the Zamboanga del Sur from Iligan City when the incident happened.

Peralta said the suspects “will be turned-over to Bacolod Municipal Police Station that has jurisdiction over the case” after their own investigation.

Chief Insp. Salman Saad, Lanao del Norte provincial police information officer, said Pacalioga is undergoing treatment at a hospital in Iligan City.

Saad said firearms recovered from them will be subjected to paraffin tests and other procedures through the Scene of the Crime Operatives (SOCO).

Pacalioga served as mayor of Dumingag town from 2007 to 2016 and as town vice mayor in 2016.

He was dismissed from his post in 2017 by the Office of the Ombudsman for deliberately omitting several properties from his 2011, 2012, and 2014 Statement of Assets, Liabilities, and Net Worth (SALNs).

He was charged with “Falsification of Official Document and Serious Dishonesty’ for not declaring 10 parcels of land located in different barangays in Dumingag town.

Pacalioga was indicted with three counts of perjury and three counts of violation of Section 8 in relation to Section 11 of the Code of Conduct and Ethical Standards for Public Officials and Employees (Republic Act No. 6713). (PNA)