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PLARIDEL,
Quezon—The National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) picked
up the wife of the mayor of this town from the cockpit
of the adjacent town of Atimonan on Monday for alleged
bigamy.
Carmer
Durana was arrested despite objections of Mayor Wilfredo
Magbuhos Jr., who tried in vain to call his lawyers for
help.
The
mayor turned his wrath instead on John Bello,
BusinessMirror news correspondent, who took photographs
of the arrest, including Durana as she got inside the
NBI car beside Anti-Organized Crime chief director Oscar
Embido.
“Kasama
n’yo ba ito [Is this man with you]?” Magbuhos asked
Embido as he grabbed Bello’s camera. After Embido,
apparently not knowing
Bello is a journalist, replied no to Magbuhos, the mayor
began to hit
Bello; followed, as if on cue, by his security men.
The
charge of bigamy was filed by Jacqueline Oliver Magbuhos,
who claimed she and the mayor were married on February
1, 1991 by then Associate Justice Jose Melo. She was 21
and he, 18, when they were married at the Office of the
Court of Appeals in
Manila.
When
Wilfredo filed his certificate of candidacy for mayor in
2004 he clearly stated he was married to Jacqueline.
However, on July 15, 2004 or just two weeks after he
assumed the mayorship, he married Durana, 35, a resident
of Tayabas, Quezon in Quezon City.
A copy
of the marriage certificate showed that Magbuhos, then
31, stated he was single.
Jacqueline who gave her address as
Juan Luna St.,
Binondo, Manila, then filed her bigamy charge at the
Office of the Deputy Ombudsman for
Luzon on
June 29, 2006.
Bello was examined at the Philippine General Hospital in
Manila and was issued the proper medical certificate.
He filed
with the NBI on Tuesday charges of physical injuries and
robbery against Magbuhos and his henchmen. The complaint
was received by Embido. |
