CATBALOGAN, Samar
– The newly-installed Provincial Director of the Samar Police Provincial
Office (SPPO) based in Camp Lukban here made no specific promises save
his loyalty to the organization where he belongs.
PSSupt. Ashdali Idja
Abah, who replaced PSSupt. Arcadio B. Lelis as SPPO chief, however,
promised to ‘go an extra mile’ in delivering his duties as provincial
police chief so as not to frustrate the people he is serving now.
Supt. Abah assumed
post as SPPO chief Thursday, June 1, following the promotion of Lelis
as Chief, Directorial Staff of PNP Regional Office 8 based in Camp
Kangleon in Palo, Leyte on the same date.
Abah served as the
group director of the PNP’s Regional Mobile Group stationed in
Capoocan, Leyte before his appointment as Samar police chief. He was,
however, designated as officer-in-charge of SPPO for two weeks way
back in 2004.
Meanwhile, Supt. Lelis,
in an interview, denied that his relief from the command was
politically conditioned saying it was simply a promotion issue as the
post he is holding now is somewhat higher compared to his previous
assignment.
He informed that the
PNP Regional Director offered him the post and he saw it as an
opportunity so he took it. “I think it is time for me to go,” Supt.
Lelis said.
The outgoing Samar
police director is at odds with Samar’s 1st district Congressman
Reynaldo S. Uy following the arrest of one of the Congressman’s
alleged armed men, who reportedly posed as a Bantay Dagat operative,
along the shores of Almagro town on late January, this year
(news).
The authorities
confiscated four M16 Rifles and the motorboat which the alleged armed
men used following the encounter. But Uy slapped Lelis with charges of
frustrated homicide after the incident.
