CDO journalists set march vs impunity
“We will meet with the leaders of the Chamber of Commerce this afternoon to plan the mobilization on Monday,” he said.
Goking said that Oro Chamber president Antonio Uy is interested in joining ranks with the local media community in the fight against impunity in the city.
The COPC and NUJP Cagayan de Oro chapter yesterday formed a joint task force to pressure the “city government to exert extra effort in fighting criminality, specifically the judicious and intelligent appropriation of the city’s P68-million intelligence fund.
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“With the admission of city police director Police Senior Superintendent Gerardo Rosales that the shooting of Bombo James Dacoycoy is connected with his commentaries on the illegal drug trade in the city, we cannot understand and are disappointed with the perceived ‘lax response’ of the Cagayan de Oro City Police Office,” the group’s joint statement said.
The statement added that both media organizations take the shooting of Licuanan as “a direct attack on the freedom of the press.
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Licuanan, who was shot on his way home from the radio station last Thursday evening, is the second broadcast journalist shot in the city.
On March 5, 2009, Labares was shot by two motorcycle-riding men. The suspects of the shooting, like in the case of Licuanan, wore full-face crash helmets and bonnets underneath.
In October 8 this year, NUJP held a focus group discussion with local journalists and media workers to map out risk sources in their coverage.
“In our media risk mapping, the local media practitioners identified the issue on illegal drug trade as one of the high risk coverage issues,” JB Deveza, NUJP Mindanao Media Safety Officer said in an interview today. (Cong Corrales/MindaNews)
