DILASAG, AURORA - Government troopers hunting down insurgents have overrun P4-million worth of illegally sawn hard wood and equipment in a clandestine sawmill at the mountain top of calamity stricken town of Dilasag, Aurora, the military reported on Friday.
Lt. Col. Joselito Kakilala , commander of the Army’s 48th Infantry Battalion, said in his report to 7th Infantry Division commander, Major Gen. Juanito Gomez, that his men recovered at about 6 p.m. Tuesday some 152,000 board feet of red and white lawaan, three power generators, two planer machines and a wood-cutting machine.
The volume was determined by the community environment and natural resources officer James Martinez of Casiguran, Aurora.
A follow-up investigation, Kakilala said, showed that the sawmill, located at Barangay Dilaguidi, Dilasag, was purportedly connected with a firm that allegedly transport the hot items via ships and barges that occasionally dock at Barangay Dyanit, also of Dilasag.
Some residents were reportedly employed to cut and saw the trees.
Kakilala said the activity was "not a handiwork of ordinary illegal loggers.” He added: “Well-financed and organized syndicate.”
Gov. Bellaflor Angara-Castillo ordered a full-dressed investigation on the logging activities and ordered her staff to institute charges against the culprits should evidences warrant. - Armand M. Galang
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