Interior Secretary Manuel “Mar” Roxas II on Friday promised to submit a copy of the Board of Inquiry (BOI) report on the Mamasapano incident to President Benigno Aquino III and to the Senate as soon as he receives it.
In a press statement, Roxas said he will also furnish copies of the report to the National Police Commission (Napolcom), Department of Justice (DOJ), Commission on Human Rights (CHR) and other bodies investigating the incident that resulted in the deaths of 44 Special Action Force commandos.
The statement also quoted BOI chairman Director Benjamin Magalong as saying the board will submit their report to PNP Officer-in-Charge Deputy Director General Leonardo Espina on Monday.
Espina will then submit the report to Roxas, it added.
He said Magalong is still waiting for the final report of some of the members of the board. The board was formed to study the incident on the “tactical level”.
Senior Supt. Robert Po, a member of the BOI, in a text message to GMA News Online, said the operational audit part of the report would be submitted to Magalong on Friday afternoon.
Meanwhile, Cerbo stressed that since the deadline was only self-imposed, “I would not say na na-delay.”
The BOI was originally supposed to submit its report by the end of February, but moved the deadline to Friday, Mar. 6.
Forty-four elite policemen died during the Mamasapano clash with members of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, the splinter group Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters, and some members of other armed groups in Maguindanao.
At the time, the police commandos were on a mission to arrest Malaysian terrorist Zulkifi bin Hir alias Marwan of Jemaah Islamiyah and Filipino bomb-maker and Abu Sayyaf member Basit Usman.
Marwan was killed during the police raid on his hideout, but Usman was able to escape. — JDS, GMA News
