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BY RUBY P. SILUBRICO
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Friday January 13, 2017
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ILOILO City – Two gangs that the Iloilo City Police Office (ICPO) identified as among the 25 groups of youngsters disturbing the metro’s tranquility denied having violent tendencies.
Their leaders and members trooped to the ICPO to clear their groups’ names, said Senior Superintendent Remus Zacharias Canieso, city police director.
The “See Crazy Kids Toughies Nice Girls” (Shoktong) and “D Ilonggos Crew Thugs Amegos” (Dicta) vowed to help the ICPO maintain peace and order and even hold community service, according to Canieso.
The director had a conference with the two gangs on Wednesday. He said the groups claimed their names were being used by wayward minors to get back at enemies.
The “original” Shoktong gang claimed its members are college students and that even some are now professionals.
On the other hand, Dicta claimed its members are now seafarers but there are some still going to a university in Molo district.
“They have no criminal record,” said Canieso of the two gangs.
He urged other gangs that the ICPO identified to also visit the city police office.
“Let’s make Iloilo City peaceful,” said Canieso.
Shoktong and Dicta vowed to help clean the city’s streets after the Dinagyang Festival this Jan. 22, he revealed.
Early this week, Councilor Jeffrey Ganzon said he wanted to have a meeting with the leaders of the gangs, too, and make a personal appeal to them for sobriety.
The chairman of the Sangguniang Panlungsod’s committee on police matters asked the ICPO for a list of the gangs and the addresses of their leaders.
“I want to meet the presidents of these gangs to personally talk to them. I believe this move will somehow help solve the gang problem,” Ganzon said.
Gang-related violence has been bugging the city in recent months. The ICPO said most of the members of the gangs were minors.
The city police feared gang violence could erupt during the Dinagyang festivities.
The gangs that the ICPO identified were spread out in five districts – City Proper, La Paz and Lapuz, Mandurriao, Molo./PN
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