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EXPLOSIVE materials were recovered from a burning vehicle which had caught fire on the road in Tabuelan town, Cebu.
The driver abandoned the vehicle, but a police officer will be investigated for his suspicious role in insisting on transporting the items left behnd: a sack of ammonium nitrate, two plastic bags of blasting caps and one ice bucket with undetermined content.
These items are common ingredients for illegal blast fishing.
SPO1 Camilo Abaquita is being questioned for allegedly meddling in a police operation outside his area of responsbility.
He has to explain why he insisted on transporting abandoned materials found in a burning vehicle in barangay Dalid, Tabuelan.
Abaquita is assigned in Tuburan town, the adjacent town.
Senior Supt. Erson Digal, director of the Cebu Provincial Police Office (CPPO), said the police officer?s action was suspicious.
About 7:30 a.m. Wednesday, the vehicle caught fire in sitio Kampatok.
The driver was seen unloading the cargo to save them but he left when firefighters arrived.
SPO1 Abaquita arrived at the fire scene and volunteered to bring the explosive materials to the Tabuelan police station using his vehicle.
?Namugos man daw ni si Abaquita nga isakay sa iyang sakyanan. Ang pulis gani nga niresponde ingon nga sa ila lang patrol isakay (Abaquita allegedly insisted that the cargo be transferred to his vehicle even though the police insisted that the cargo be loaded in the police vehicle),? Digal said.
Senior Insp. Florendo Fajardo, Tabuelan police chief, confirmed that SPO1 Abaquita arrived in the police station with the explosive materials.
But Digal said he had to check reports that the cargo was incomplete.
Digal said an investigation will be conducted to identify the owner of the explosive ingredients and the source.
?I will really have the incident investigated because there might be some policemen behind this,? Digal said.
