Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 03:23:00 07/08/2008

MARAWI CITY – Faculty members of the Mindanao State University (MSU) here have appealed to the kidnappers to release their captive, a biology teacher who has been in captivity for more than a week now.

Sherwin Nacua, a faculty member of the College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics of the MSU, was kidnapped on June 26.

Nacua was with 22 (not 19 as earlier reported) other MSU faculty members in a commuter Sarao jeep bound for Iligan City when their vehicle was stopped by four armed men wearing military uniforms in Saguiaran, Lanao del Sur.

The kidnappers commandeered the vehicle towards Poona Piagapo town. But while traversing a dirt, narrow road, the jeepney stopped before a logging truck that had been stalled. The kidnappers then took from the passengers their mobile phones and ID cards.

Nacua was held at gunpoint and he reportedly stayed on so the rest could escape when the kidnappers became nervous because Maranao residents refused to heed the kidnappers’ request to push the jeep away from the muddied road and instead urged the passengers to run to the highway.

In the confusion, the faculty members took their chance and walked towards the highway to freedom.

Nacua, the only breadwinner in the family, is married to Elena, a housewife. They have three children.

No demands in exchange for Nacua’s release have been made, but talks circulating within the MSU campus here suggest that the motive behind Nacua’s kidnapping was personal because he had flunked a student. Inquirer Mindanao

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