By Rey Anthony ChiuRobbers took more than P66,832.50 from collectors of a single lending firm from at least 7 highway robberies in the first 7 months of this year, police reports said.
The unabated incidents of robberies falling upon collectors of Taytay sa Kauswagan Incorporated (TSKI) has prompted members of the Provincial Peace and Order Council (PPOC) to call the firm Tulis Sa Kadalanan Inc.
The unabated robberies hitting TSKI was despite an early Bohol police instruction for the firm to devise a plan so as not to present an opportunity for the crime to happen. But TSKI still sends its men to remote areas collecting cash from their borrowers all over Bohol.
According to briefing notes read by Bohol police chief Ssupt. Edgardo Ingking, during the recent PPOC meeting at Cantaongon in Loon town, the most recent incident involving TSKI was July 1, at Getafe town, and involving P13,117.00.
A call to Getafe police bared that on July 1, at about 11:35 am. two unidentified men in improvised masks blocked the team of Amy Omandam and her motorcycle driver between barangays Campao Oriental and Buyog of Getafe town.
Using short firearms of undetermined caliber, robbers took the money from Omandam and then fled towards Buyog, said SPO1 Meliflo Paca of Getafe police station.
TSKI fell victim to similar road robberies including P9,000 cash and 5210 mobile phone and the collector’s Honda Wave motorcycle which robbers took on January 23 in Sta. Cruz Sagbayan. Police later recovered the motorcycle abandoned in barangay Cantuyoc, of Clarin town, SPO2 Senon Añora of Sagbayan police station said.
Less than a month later, on February 15, TSKI lost P9,317.25 in barangay Katarungan of Ubay town.
The firm also undetermined cash to robbers armed with .45 caliber and knife four days later in Badian of Inabanga town, PSSupt Ingking reported.
On April 21, TSKI collector was hit in Tamong, Danao and was divested of P12,000 in cash collections.
TSKI’s biggest loss in the seven month span was in Talibon, where P23,081 was lost to robbers in Talibon town on June 5.
Five days later, the lending firm again lost P9,317.25 in nearby Ubay town.
Newly assumed Kauswagan Bank Branch Manager Lealyn Alcala, a sister firm of TSKI pointed to a movement of officers in the firm creating a vacuum where they could not yet fully coordinate their plans for men in the field.
She added that upon the Bohol police suggestions, instead of collectors going to remote areas in Clarin, the lendees now remit their money to Sagbayan town where a TSKI satellite base is set.
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