CEBU CITY – Cebu City Mayor Edgardo Labella was one of the senior citizens who were vaccinated when the city resumed its vaccination campaign on Tuesday, May 4.
Mayor Edgardo Labella (Facebook / MANILA BULLETIN FILE PHOTO)
Labella said the killing of Ritchie Nepomuceno “has to be looked into relentlessly” by the National Police Commission (Napolcom).
Nepomuceno was gunned down by two motorcycle-riding assailants while standing by the road in Barangay Basak-Pardo Monday night. She was the woman who filed rape and extortion charges against 11 policemen from the Sawang Calero Police Station.
About three hours after Nepomuceno was killed, one of the accused policemen, Police Staff Sgt. Celso Colita, allegedly committed suicide by shooting himself in the head in the toilet in one of the offices of the Police Regional Office-Central Office headquarters in Camp Sergio Osmena here.
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Mayor Edgardo Labella
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Labella appeared before a virtual press conference Wednesday, making his first public appearance after taking a leave of absence to heal an ear infection.
“I’m okay contrary to what others are saying that I am in comatose. People can be cruel but let’s just forgive them,” Labella said.
The mayor, who sported what looked like a bandage on the right ear during the press briefing, said he had to take a two-day leave of absence starting January 20 due to an ear infection.
The infection was diagnosed when the mayor went to the outpatient department of a private hospital for a checkup last Jan. 15.