Cotabato Auxiliary Bishop Jose Collin Bagaforo. Photo from cbcpnews.com
KIDAPAWAN CITY – Kidapawan Bishop Jose Colin Bagaforo on Thursday made an urgent appeal to the New People’s Army (NPA) to release Inspector Menard Cui, whom the rebels seized on December 28 in President Roxas, North Cotabato.
“I strongly appeal to the NPAs to free Insp. Cui so he can be with his wife during her last hours on earth,” Bagaforo said.
Cui’s wife Florelie died two days after he was snatched by gunmen at a KTV Bar in Barangay Poblacion, President Roxas.
Cui, deputy town police chief, was taken by the suspects to the mountains of Magpet, North Cotabato.
The NPA’s Guerilla Front 53 later admitted that it had in its custody the police officer.
“For and in behalf of the family, I humbly appeal to the NPA to free Cui soon so he could be with his wife before her burial,” Bagaforo said, adding Cui’s wife will be buried on Friday.