ROLITO GO SURFACES, CLAIMS HE WAS KIDNAPPED
ROLITO Go surfaced on Thursday and maintained that he and his nephew were kidnapped by men posing as agents of the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) inside the New Bilibid Prisons (NBP) compound in Muntilupa City on Tuesday night.
Go said that he and nephew Clarence Yu were taken to Batangas province but they were released on Wednesday when their captors realized that they would not get any ransom.
Philippine National Police (PNP) chief Director General Nicanor Bartolome presented Go and Yu to the media on Thursday.
The convicted murderer said that he and his nephew where then seized at gunpoint by four men wearing NBI ID’s at the premises of the church of Inang Awa inside the minimum security compound of the NBP.
Go said that he had just left the chapel and was on his way to the minimum security compound when he was seized by four persons.
“They told me to go out of the compound and I told them how can I go out when I am under treatment,” Go, who is suffering from colon cancer, told reporters.
He said that he and his nephew were forced into Yu’s car, a white Honda Civic (UUR-805).
“I thought that they will bring us to the maximum compound, but I fought them off when I saw that we were heading outside the [ NBP]
compound,” Go said.
The convict said that they were taken to a dark farm house in Sto. Tomas town, Batangas province.
Go said that their abductors called his family to demand ransom.
“They took us [on] Tuesday night and were released yesterday [Wednesday]. They tried to kill us but our guard told us to just keep quiet and forget this,” Go said.
“They [suspects] released us when they realized that they could not get anything from me, even if they kill me, they won’t get anything,” he added.
It was Go’s family who informed the police that the two have been released and were on boards a bus going to Manila.
“So our operatives from the Anti-Kidnapping Group and Go’s relatives were there in [Alabang] to wait for the bus and true enough Go and Yu disembarked from a bus that came from Batangas,” Bartolome said.
The PNP chief said Yu’s car was recovered on Thursday morning by the police in Sto. Tomas, Batangas.
Bartolome said the Criminal Inves- tigation and Detection Group (CIDG) will investigate Go’s alleged abduction.
He said that if Go was indeed kidnapped, the police will start hunting his abductors.
“According to Mr. Go and Mr. Yu, four persons took them from the NBP compound, that’s as far as their revelations go. We have started the computerized sketch of the suspects as recalled by the victims,” Bartolome said.
Another complaint
Justice Undersecretary Francisco Baraan 3rd warned that Go may find himself facing another charge if authorities can prove that he was not abducted.
Baraan, the undersecretary in charge of the Bureau of Corrections (BuCor), said Go, may suffer the fate of former Gov. Antonio Leviste of Batangas province, who was charged with evasion in the service of sentence for leaving the NBP without authority.
The Justice official said that Go’s stay in prison will be prolonged if his claims were proven to be false.
Baraan added that Go’s recent disappearance may compromise his pending application for parole and clemency.
Go, who is a “living out prisoner,” has been in prison for 18 years. He was convicted for the death of engineering student Eldon Maguan in 1991.