Wankette 48: Comelec Dyno-mite

What is a senior Comelec officer here doing with 600 sticks of dynamite? Dionisio Oya, an election officer of the Commission on Elections Cordillera office, was caught red-handed selling four boxes of dynamite, four boxes of blasting caps and rolls of detonation fuses to a police asset shortly before Wednesday noon inside the Comelec compound along Governor Pack Road. Oya is presently at the Saint Louis Hospital after he twisted his leg in an effort to avoid the entrapment operation. Oya's accomplice, Eugenio Diego, was detained Thursday afternoon at the Baguio City Jail. Senior Superintendent Moises Guevarra, director of Baguio City Police Office (BCPO), said the dynamites might not be used for election purposes but Oya and Diego would be charged for violation of the Omnibus Election Code, as well as for illegal possession of explosives. BCPO Operations Chief Fernando Moyaen said that the dynamites would probably be used for small-scale mining operations here.The cache weighed more than 100 kilos and has a street value of about P104,000, Moyaen said. The dynamite sticks were manufactured in Limay town, in the province of Bataan.