BANGUED, Abra The local political clans of the Someras in Pilar town, Abra crumbled and lost grip of their strongholds in the small town of more or less 10,000 inhabitants in the last election. Incumbent mayor Maro Somera lost miserably to a virtually unknown opponent in the mayoralty race, garn
(File photo by Liza Agoot/PNA) BAGUIO CITY - All 27 police officers of the Pilar municipal police in Abra have been relieved and reassigned to poll duties in other places, instead. The officers figured in a shooting with the security team of Pilar, Abra Vice Mayor Josefina Somera Disono after the latter group reportedly ignored a police checkpoint at the town center last March 30. "Today, I have ordered the replacement of all PNP personnel of Pilar MPS, from the Chief of Police down to the lowest ranking police officers," Brig. Gen. Ronald Oliver Lee, regional director of the Police Regional Office - Cordillera (PROCor), said in a statement. Lee said the implicated officers will be replaced by personnel from the Regional Mobile Force Battalion 15 (RMFB15). Lee said the 27 personnel have been temporarily re-assigned to the Personnel Holding and Accounting Section (PHAS) of the Abra provincial police office for deployment to other units to perform election duties. Information r
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Police filed criminal charges against the incumbent mayor and vice mayor of Pilar town in Abra in connection with the shootout in a checkpoint and subsequent standoff between the police and the bodyguards of a local executive on March 30. Charged were Pilar Mayor Maro Somera, Vice Mayor Jaja Josefi
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