00:00The number of kidnapping cases in the Philippines has increased since the government shut down the POGOs
00:06according to an anti-crime group.
00:08The government's gate does not allow the PNP to fight against the criminals.
00:13Marisol Abduraman has this to say.
00:18Unlike the usual, for the anti-crime advocate Teresita Angsi,
00:23the latest kidnapping of a student who was even handcuffed to be sent to her parents.
00:28Very sadistic type of kidnapping, only this time.
00:32Kidnapping for ransom is not new in the country,
00:35but according to MRPO, this is the first time they encountered something like this
00:40and it was not done to the victim, especially that it was only 14 years old.
00:44It's a very inhumane way of treating the victims and we have never encountered that before.
00:52In the past, the victims were treated like this, where they tortured the victims,
00:58they cut the finger.
01:00Adults and POGO related.
01:02This one is in no way related to the POGOs.
01:05Even the large amount of ransom they are asking for,
01:07only now reached that amount according to Angsi.
01:10An information reached her.
01:12The victim's family knows that the kidnapping has something to do with POGOs.
01:16Because the driver used to work in a very big POGO business in Clark.
01:23And the driver has been with them for only one month.
01:26The same way that we hear POGO victims, POGO hostages,
01:31that they are not paying their debts or something like that.
01:34The same, his treatment and his voice.
01:37The driver is the one who gave the information to the suspects.
01:40He took the child to the hospital.
01:43Along with the continuous effort of the family to recover from his traumatic experience.
01:48But they are not the only ones affected.
01:50The business community is in a panic because this is what they are afraid of.
01:54According to Angsi's group, the Movement for Restoration of Peace and Order,
01:59the number of kidnappings has increased since the POGOs were closed in the country.
02:03In January alone, four were reported.
02:06Most of the perpetrators are still the Chinese syndicates.
02:10The victims are not all POGO-related.
02:13The government is caught flat-footed.
02:16They are not prepared what to do, right?
02:19The Filipino drivers are without jobs.
02:22Not just the Chinese are without jobs.
02:24We have to be more vigilant with these things happening now.
02:28Hi, this is Interior Secretary John V. Cremulia.
02:31The PNP is on top of the situation.
02:34The PNP is not letting go.
02:37We have the tools necessary to fight crime.
02:39The people around me now, I vouch for them.
02:43They are doing a good job.
02:45We will never let down our guard against criminality.
02:48For GMA Integrated News, Marisol Abdurrahman.
02:53For Tuto, 24 hours.
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