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Task Force on Media Security to investigate killing of Catanduanes publisher Larry Que

MANILA, Jan. 11 (PNA) -- Presidential Task Force on Media Security Executive Director Usec. Joel Sy Egco is personally leading an investigation today into the killing of Catanduanes publisher Larry Que this week.

“I am personally seeing to it that the investigation of this killing moves forward faster as we are treating Que’s case as the first killing of a journalist under the President’s term. Especially in this case where it appears that Que was exposing the short comings of government officials whose vigilance could have thwarted the setting up of one of the largest shabu laboratories uncovered last year. Being a journalist myself, Que’s killing could cause a chilling effect among journalists who are on a mission to expose crime and corruption,” said Egco.

In the Catanduanes Police Provincial Office’s memorandum on Que’s killing, they recommended that ample time be given for the investigation because the complexity of the case may require a thorough look into the victim’s dealings and affiliations.

Que, the publisher of Catanduanes News Now, was shot in the head by one of two armed suspects on Dec. 19, 2016 as he was about to enter the building that houses his insurance office, the Centennial Guarantee Insurance company. He was rushed to the Eastern Bicol Medical Center where he was later pronounced dead.

The NUJP noted that prior to Que’s killing, he had written articles criticizing local officials for supposed negligence which allowed the setting up on the province of a recently raided shabu laboratory that authorities said was the “biggest” so far discovered in the country. (PNA)

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