SENATE PRESIDENT Aquilino L. Pimentel III, who hails from Cagayan de Oro (CDO) City, called on the police and other law enforcement agencies “to exert and exhaust all efforts to quickly arrest the suspected killers” of Ricardo E. Rotoras, president of the state-owned University of Science and Technology of Southern Philippines (USTP) in CDO. “We are a peace-loving society and killings of this nature must be stopped. The police must do its job to protect and secure the people against rouge elements of society,” said Mr. Pimentel in a statement. The police reported that the 48-year old Mr. Rotoras after he was shot by unidentified men early Saturday morning outside his house at Golden Glow North Subdivision. Senators Paolo Benigno “Bam” A. Aquino IV and Francis “Kiko” N. Pangilinan also issued a joint statement condemning the attack. “We worked closely with him for the passage of the Universal Access to Quality Tertiary Education Act as president of Philippine Association of State Universities and Colleges… His untimely death is a great loss to the country’s push for quality education for every Filipino,” they said. — Mindanao Bureau

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