DyLA radio broadcaster and Daily Tribune correspondent Rico Osmena. (File photo) CEBU CITY - The Cebu City Police Office (CCPO) has vowed to assign personnel who will secure radio broadcaster and Manila broadsheet correspondent Rico Osmena who was injured in a shooting incident during the onslaught of Typhoon Odette on December 16 last year. Lt. Col. Maria Theresa Macatangay, CCPO information officer, said in a press briefing that the order to put security detail on Osmena came straight from Philippine National Police chief, Gen. Dionardo Carlos. "Well, technically it should be the journalist who experiences the threats (who) should apply and (such application will be) validated by his colleagues or through the KBP (Kapisanan ng mga Brodkaster ng Pilipinas) and to also subject to further validation with the PNP. What is different in this case is that the incident already happened," she said, adding that security will be given following "compliance with parameters needed&
(Photo courtesy of Rico Osmena) MANILA - Malacanang strongly denounced the shooting of Rico Osmena, a blocktimer for radio station DYLA, who was shot while onboard a minibus traveling along Urdaneta St. in Barangay San Roque, Cebu City on Thursday. "The Presidential Task Force on Media Security (PTFoMS) condemns the attack on Rico Osmena. I have already asked the Philippine National Police (PNP) Regional Office to use all available manpower and resources to find and apprehend the perpetrators of this cowardly act," PTFoMS Executive Director, Undersecretary Joel Sy Egco said in a news release. Initial report submitted to PTFoMS by the PNP through Maj. Edgar C. Labe, station commander of Police Station 3 in Cebu City, disclosed that at around 12:30 p.m., two unidentified male gunmen suddenly boarded the minibus and shot the victim twice in the back and immediately fled. Another female passenger was injured during the incident. Both victims were rushed to a nearby hospital and a