Cotabato mayor offers P300-K for info behind secretary’s murder

By Edwin Fernandez 

BOUNTY VS. KILLERS. Cotabato City's secretary to the mayor, Aniceto Rasalan, was shot dead inside an eatery in the locality on Monday (May 25, 2020). The city government has offered a PHP300,000 bounty to anyone who could pinpoint the killers and the mastermind behind the incident. (Photo from Rasalan FB page)

COTABATO CITY – Mayor Frances Cynthia Guiani-Sayadi offered on Tuesday a PHP300,000-bounty to anyone who could provide information leading to the arrest of the killers of her executive secretary.

In her social media post, Guiani-Sayadi said the reward is to hasten the arrest of the assailants who shot dead Aniceto “Boy” Rasalan on Monday morning.

“I will be giving a PHP300,000 reward for anybody who can give information leading to the identification of the persons and the mastermind (of the killing),” the mayor said.

Rasalan, a former journalist before joining the local government, was taking his breakfast at an eatery along Notre Dame Avenue, Cotabato City when two men shot him at close range in the head around 7:15 a.m.

Witnesses said the gunmen, wearing face masks, quickly fled on board a motorbike after the shooting. Responding police rushed Rasalan to the Cotabato Regional and Medical Center but was declared dead on arrival.

In 2015, Rasalan survived an attack while driving to his office.

Police are determining if the murder was related to the attempt on his life five years ago. (PNA)