Bayan Muna Partylist provincial chairperson & elected Municipal Official shot to death in Aklan, Panay, Philippines

At around 6:30 AM, Fernando Baldomero was in front of his rented house in Brgy. Estancia, Kalibo boarding his motorcycle with his 12-year old son on their way to school, when two medium-built men onboard a black motorcycle stopped in front of them.  The passenger, who was wearing a black jacket and had his face covered by helmet and a pair of sunglasses, disembarked and started shooting the victim at close range with a handgun in front of the victim’s terrified son.  The driver was wearing a white shirt and a pair of denim pants and had no covering over his face.

At around 6:30 AM, Fernando Baldomero was in front of his rented house in Brgy. Estancia, Kalibo boarding his motorcycle with his 12-year old son on their way to school, when two medium-built men onboard a black motorcycle stopped in front of them.  The passenger, who was wearing a black jacket and had his face covered by helmet and a pair of sunglasses, disembarked and started shooting the victim at close range with a handgun in front of the victim’s terrified son.  The driver was wearing a white shirt and a pair of denim pants and had no covering over his face.  Witnesses noticed that there was a long firearm slung behind the driver.  

Baldomero suffered two gunshot wounds to the head which pierced through his helmet and one to the neck.  The assailants left soon after.  Witnesses even tried to run after them but they drove very fast.  The victim was immediately brought to the Kalibo Provincial Hospital but he was pronounced dead-on-arrival.

Baldomero’s son, Karl Philip, was also immediately brought to the doctor because he was severely traumatized by the incident.

During the 2010 election campaign period, two men on board a motorcycle with no license plate lobbed grenades at the Baldomero ancestral house in Brgy. Sta. Cruz Biga-a, Lezo, Aklan on 19 March 2010.  One of the grenades landed and exploded in the kitchen located at the rear part of the house, while the other one landed inside the main part of the house where Fernando’s 92-year old father Ramon was preparing feeds for his chicken.  Fortunately, the second grenade did not explode.

In 2005, while Fernando Baldomero served as a barangay (village) councilor in Lezo, he was arrested and detained because the military and the police accused him to be linked with a unit of the New People’s Army (NPA) and charged him with the crime allegedly committed by the armed group in Guimbal, Iloilo and San Remigio, Antique.  He was cleared from both charges and was later released.

He was again slapped with two trumped-up charges by the military in connection with NPA activities in Tubungan, Iloilo but these were also dismissed at the Provincial Prosecutor level.

Fernando Baldomero was a political detainee in the 80’s tagged by the military as a high-ranking official of the NPA.  After his release, he settled in his hometown in Lezo.