BEN SERRANO
Contributing editor
GINGOOG CITY—Colleagues of slain broadcaster Arecio Padrigao Sr. claimed they received the same death threats through their cellphones.
Emmanuel “Manny” Ansihagan, news presenter of “Hustiya’t Katarungan” aired over DXRS-FM, told Police Director Leony Roy Ga about the text messages he received from three cellphone numbers last Nov. 20.
“Kamo diha mga komentarista hutdon ta mo ugihaw nako,” the text messages went.
Ansihagan said he tried to call one sender only to hear a group of people laughing and talking in the vernacular.
Also, Ansihagan’s buddy identified as Allan Pelegrino claimed receiving a similar death threat through SMS a day before.
DXRS announcer Willy Ramos, who accompanied Ansihagan and Pelegrino in reporting the matter to the police station, commented: “This is the risk of our job, doing it voluntarily using our own expenses and with little or no compensation but we are doing this for the public’s sake.”
DXRS-FM owner and station manager Gualberto Pahunang Jr. said he is also concerned of the lives of Ansihagan and Pelegrino.
Contributing editor
GINGOOG CITY—Colleagues of slain broadcaster Arecio Padrigao Sr. claimed they received the same death threats through their cellphones.
Emmanuel “Manny” Ansihagan, news presenter of “Hustiya’t Katarungan” aired over DXRS-FM, told Police Director Leony Roy Ga about the text messages he received from three cellphone numbers last Nov. 20.
“Kamo diha mga komentarista hutdon ta mo ugihaw nako,” the text messages went.
Ansihagan said he tried to call one sender only to hear a group of people laughing and talking in the vernacular.
Also, Ansihagan’s buddy identified as Allan Pelegrino claimed receiving a similar death threat through SMS a day before.
DXRS announcer Willy Ramos, who accompanied Ansihagan and Pelegrino in reporting the matter to the police station, commented: “This is the risk of our job, doing it voluntarily using our own expenses and with little or no compensation but we are doing this for the public’s sake.”
DXRS-FM owner and station manager Gualberto Pahunang Jr. said he is also concerned of the lives of Ansihagan and Pelegrino.
Representatives from the DOJ’s Task Force Usig has visited the station to investigate the killing of Padrigao but press members said the investigators only stayed not a minute too long and have not yet returned to update them of the inquiry until now.