TACLOBAN CITY- Former CA Justice Ching Veloso is requesting the Leyte Provincial Police Office to explore all angles in the supposed ambush in Alang-alang town yesterday afternoon, where the driver of San Isidro Mayor Remedios Veloso escaped nearly unscathed and a companion with no injuries.
Veloso cited his detractors’ aim, and track record, of painting a bad image of him as being behind the violence in Leyte’s third district, where San Isidro town is part of. The former congressman also pointed out that the supposed “victim” in the Alang-alang ambush is the same driver who figured in an “ambush” in 2019 where he was also not injured, and where the circumstances of the incident were highly suspicious.
Veloso had announced his plan to run for congressman in the fourth district, and his rival camp had since tried to pin on him the spate of violence in the third district.
“One, if it’s true we are behind the violence, why would my daughter, the incumbent congresswoman, write a letter asking the police to investigate and solve these killings once and for all? Second, there are 57 recorded violent incidents in the last two years, the bulk of which were in San Isidro. I was congressman before these dates and yet, there were no incidents of killings,” according to the former justice.
Veloso believes that this recent ambush may be “staged” or “faked” by the same group that were involved in a similar incident in 2019.
Reinforcing his doubts on its veracity, he said, is a Facebook post by the account of San Isidro Mayor Remedios Veloso, who seemed proud of the incident instead of expressing concern for his driver:
“Mao ning gi ambush!! Dili parehas sa nahitabo sa Batang Capiñahan!!” read the post of Rem Vel, ended by two shushing emojis.
In Veloso’s request for the police for a thorough investigation on this recent case, he said he only wants to prevent the public from falling into what could be another planned propaganda against him, saying, ‘Repeat a lie often enough and it becomes the truth.”/