SPO1 Adonis Dumpit was laid to rest yesterday in a communal grave in the Carreta cemetery under the pouring rain with no police officers in sight.
There was also no 21-gun salute.
But his 24-year-old son Norman said that many active policemen, who were his father’s friends, reached out to their family to extend their condolences.
“We respect their decision (not to come) because they will be photographed. We would have wanted them here, but we also didn’t want them to risk their jobs,” he said in Cebuano.
Norman placed 20 empty bullet shells inside his father’s grave, as requested by Dumpit’s friends in his shooters’ circle.
“Siya na lang daw mag-reload sa langit (My father will be the one to reload in heaven),” he said.
Meanwhile, Alaric, Dumpit’s older brother, does not expect justice for the death of the controversial officer, but he reiterated that the latter was not involved in illegal drugs.
“Dili drug lord akong igsuon bisag naa pay media diri moadto sa amoa sa Mindanao aron makita ang sitwasyon namo. Naa bay drug lord nga payag ang balay (The media can check our situtation in Mindanao just to prove that my brother was not a drug lord. Because if he was, why would we be living in a hut)?” said Alaric after the burial, which was past 2 p.m.
The 63-year-old Davao native, his relatives and Dumpit’s adopted children wore a white shirt printed with a message: “We are his soldiers and he is our shoulder to cry on.”
“Ang Ginoo ray bahala sa ilaha (I leave their fate to God),” Alaric said when asked if he wants an investigation on the operatives, who killed Dumpit in a shootout in Tagbilaran City, Bohol last June 27.
Standing by his man
Cebu City Mayor Tomas Osmeña and his son Miguel attended the requiem for Dumpit held at the Cebu Metropolitan Cathedral past noon.
“He knows I always stood by him in life and in death,” Osmeña told reporters after the mass.
He said that Dumpit has supporters from the police, but they did not show up yesterday as they were afraid of being investigated.
Police Regional Office 7 Director Debold Sinas had said that a background check would be conducted on police officers caught visiting Dumpit’s wake.
Dumpit served Osmeña as a close-in security after the former was released on bail from a penal colony in Abuyog, Leyte in 2016. The mayor also shouldered the officer’s bail.
The mass was celebrated by Fr. Joseph Ladera. He did not talk about Dumpit’s death in his homily, focusing instead on the gospel about Jesus restoring two demon-possessed men.
For Dumpit’s ex-wife Josephine Gabuya, she said she did not mind that the Philippine National Police refused to give him honors.
“Ang Ginoo ra gyoy igong maghatag niya ngadto sa laing kalibotan og honors (Only God will give him the honors),” she said. “Ato iampo si Dumpit sa iyang kamatayon. Unya hatagan usab og hustisya ug maminaw usab ang PNP (Let’s pray for Dumpit and for justice and for the PNP to listen to our pleas of his innocence).”
Gabuya said she understood the active police officers who did not attend the requiem, saying they have their jobs to protect.
“Dili drug lord akong igsuon bisag naa pay media diri moadto sa amoa sa Mindanao aron makita ang sitwasyon namo. Naa bay drug lord nga payag ang balay (The media can check our situtation in Mindanao just to prove that my brother was not a drug lord. Because if he was, why would we be living in a hut)?” said Alaric after the burial, which was past 2 p.m.
The 63-year-old Davao native, his relatives and Dumpit’s adopted children wore a white shirt printed with a message: “We are his soldiers and he is our shoulder to cry on.”
“Ang Ginoo ray bahala sa ilaha (I leave their fate to God),” Alaric said when asked if he wants an investigation on the operatives, who killed Dumpit in a shootout in Tagbilaran City, Bohol last June 27.
Standing by his man
Cebu City Mayor Tomas Osmeña and his son Miguel attended the requiem for Dumpit held at the Cebu Metropolitan Cathedral past noon.
“He knows I always stood by him in life and in death,” Osmeña told reporters after the mass.
He said that Dumpit has supporters from the police, but they did not show up yesterday as they were afraid of being investigated.
Police Regional Office 7 Director Debold Sinas had said that a background check would be conducted on police officers caught visiting Dumpit’s wake.
Dumpit served Osmeña as a close-in security after the former was released on bail from a penal colony in Abuyog, Leyte in 2016. The mayor also shouldered the officer’s bail.
The mass was celebrated by Fr. Joseph Ladera. He did not talk about Dumpit’s death in his homily, focusing instead on the gospel about Jesus restoring two demon-possessed men.
For Dumpit’s ex-wife Josephine Gabuya, she said she did not mind that the Philippine National Police refused to give him honors.
“Ang Ginoo ra gyoy igong maghatag niya ngadto sa laing kalibotan og honors (Only God will give him the honors),” she said. “Ato iampo si Dumpit sa iyang kamatayon. Unya hatagan usab og hustisya ug maminaw usab ang PNP (Let’s pray for Dumpit and for justice and for the PNP to listen to our pleas of his innocence).”
Gabuya said she understood the active police officers who did not attend the requiem, saying they have their jobs to protect.
(c) superbalita cebu.
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