Innocent Life Fell Victim To Neighbor’s False Accusation Of Selling Drugs!!

Innocent Life Fell Victim To Neighbor’s False Accusation Of Selling Drugs!!

Drug distributors, sellers, and addicts in the Philippines are constantly targeted. One innocent life lost to gunmen hunting for people involved with drugs with or without evidence.

Luzviminda Siapo who was working in Kuwait from 2 years ago received a message about her son’s fate from her niece on Facebook saying “Tita, Raymart’s gone. Bonnet-wearing men killed him.”

On March 29, a group of men in ski masks abducted and killed her 19-year-old son, Raymart, a day after a neighbor tagged him as a marijuana peddler in Barangay NBBS, Navotas City.

Siapo, a single parent, said in an interview, “All it took was a false accusation for these people to murder my son, they did not bother to investigate nor did they bother to verify, they just killed him.”

It was reported that the night before the murder, Raymart had an altercation with a neighbor that ended with the latter going to the barangay hall to accuse Raymart of many things, like selling marijuana. The neighbor, identified only as Pejie, said his piece before desk officer Christopher Cariquitan, who had everything recorded in the logbook.

The next night, armed men on motorbikes showed up at Siapo’s home looking for the teenager. Up to 14 men arrived and 5 of them entered their target’s house as witnessed by Raymart’s uncle who serves as his guardian.

They couldn’t find Raymart in his home but later found him at a friend’s house nearby, they forced Raymart to ride with the group. He was last heard crying for help from anyone he saw on the street. They went around the barangay until they reached an area known as Bangkulasi.

“When my son refused, they asked him to sit down instead. Then, they shot him. Just like that,” Siapo said.

When Raymart was told to get off the motorcycle and run, he wouldn’t and couldn’t even if he wanted to as he was born with bilateral clubfoot (both feet were deformed). A Navotas police report said Raymart was shot twice in the head, his mother added a painful detail where the killers even broke her son’s arms!

“I’m working hard abroad just so I could raise my kids well. But this is what I’d come home to? My dead child!” said Siapo, who arrived from Kuwait on April 2.

Siapo’s employer reluctantly allowed her employee to return to her home country in the condition that she has to leave her belongings behind as a guarantee of her to return to Kuwait. Siapo went to the extent of getting down on her knees to kiss her employer’s feet to get some time off. Her brother, Bong, greeted her at the airport.

Siapo headed straight to the barangay hall, where she confronted village officials including Cariquitan, the desk officer, for allowing the neighbor to make false accusations against Raymart for not bothering to check if they were true.

“This is the reason why my son was murdered, sir, tell me what to do. Tell me! Because I had to kneel down and kiss my employer’s feet three times before I could come home. Give me an answer, please,” she said.

Cariquitan suggested that Siapo lodge a formal complaint in the police station, assuring her of the barangay’s assistance in pressing charges.

Siapo proceeded to her son’s wake from the barangay hall. Slowly, she walked up towards the while coffin, hugged it as she wept once more saying “Son, Mama’s home!”

Pejie, Raymart’s accuser had disappeared from the neighborhood since the killing. Raymart was buried at Lourdes cemetery in Malabon City yesterday April 9, 2017.