Batman and Robin

Hole of Justice

By Peter G. Jimenea           

                                             

The Amiyong and Gimena’s Story

 

If the case is illegal business, underworld characters have no recourse to proper court of law for settlement of differences. Death is the most logical solution to all judicial problems.

 

In 2007, I was hosting the Sky Cable television program “Smart Views” of then Justice Secretary (DOJ) Raul Gonzalez, Sr. when I came to know police C/Insp. Musa Amiyong. He is nice to me and we became friends.

 

He was still connected with the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) when he became the intelligence agent of DOJ Sec. Gonzalez and at the same time a bodyguard. Amiyong reports directly to Gonzalez whenever the latter is in Iloilo City.

 

Sad to note though, that in order to get his weekly intelligence fund from the DOJ secretary, sometimes, Amiyong submit raw intelligence data that I often disagree as it may nail innocent people. The other bodyguards of the secretary can attest to this fact.

On how he convinced radio-blocktimer Lito Gimena to be his sidekick in the illegal drug campaign, nobody knows. Gimena, however, indirectly confirmed it through his pompous display of gun tucked on his waist. This earned them the tag Batman and Robin.

 

As womanizing is the name of their game, Batman and Robin were forced to get out of the way to make money to support this vice. But Robin is not a Muslim, his womanizing cannot be tolerated by his wife, an OFW who finally split from him.

 

Soon lot of reports were heard about the illegal operation of Batman and Robin. One modus is the planting of grenade in business establishments for the explosive-expert police officer who is their cohort to detonate for a reward. A mall in the city is one of their victims.

 

There were also report of unlawful arrest and confiscation of illegal drugs committed by Batman and Robin in Bacolod and in other adjacent cities of Negros Occidental. This tells about the anger of a drug lord in the city of smile against the two for the mess they’re in. The PDEA is not innocent about this case.

 

But worse of all is their planting of three hand grenades tied on a string under the reserved cottage for a regular customer of Tatoy’s Manokan in  Villa Beach, Arevalo. It was reserved for the family of a businessman, his wife, children and grand-children for a weekend celebration.

 

Luckily, it was noticed by a passer-by walking near the cottage and immediately reported it. The would-be victim and family escaped death. Managuit, the police explosive expert arrived and released the three hand grenades as if loosening only the string of his shoes.

 

But one time where there is no monetary reward involved, a reported hand grenade on a roof top of a residential house in Baluarte, Molo was recovered. Managuit tried to detonate the hand grenade in his office fronting the Robinsons mall when it suddenly exploded killing him on the spot.

 

Batman and Robin don’t have the faintest idea that the night before, they were seen by a waiter who knew them personally doing something under that cottage of Tatoy’s Manokan. They were both identified. But as they were already dead this issue is now water under the bridge. May they rest in peace.

 

Robin was killed in E.B. Magalona, Negros Occidental by two assassins riding in tandem on a motorcycle on Aug. 22, 2011. Batman was also shot by two motorcycle-riding assailants at Quirino Bridge in Iloilo City on November 22, 2013. He died in the early morning of Nov. 28, six days after he was shot.

 

According to some street smarts the two got only what they really deserved. But for the businessman and members of his family who escaped death, they are still unforgiven, that even if Batman and Robin rise from the dead, as to contrition for what they did - apology not accepted!