A business leader is calling on city and police officials to swiftly solve the dumping of bodies and body parts problem in Bacolod City that is “sending negative signals to would be-investors”.
“The situation is alarming,” Frank Carbon, Metro Bacolod Chamber of Commerce and Industry chief executive officer, said Friday, May 5.
This will be bad for the community because if there are no investors there will be not new jobs, Carbon told DIGICAST NEGROS.
One criteria for businesses to invest in an area is peace and order, he said.
Carbon said the dumping of bodies and body parts could be the work of vigilante groups.
The police have yet to solve the killing of four persons whose remains were found in Bacolod.
A decomposing body found at the Economic Highway in Barangay Cabug, Bacolod City, late Tuesday had been identified as that of a Silay resident who had previously been arrested for drugs, the police said on Wednesday, May 3.
The decomposing bodies of two persons who were beyond recognition were also discovered along the Economic Highway in Barangay Felisa on April 30.
Call center agent Alex Dolorosa, 35, an organizer of the BPO Industry Employees’ Network, was found dead with 15 stab wounds at Purok Villa Rosario, Barangay Alijis, on April 24.
Mutilated hands and feet have also been dumped in the city, Carbon pointed out.*