DUMAGUETE CITY (PNA) – A 14-year-old freshman high school student, who claimed to have been kidnapped last Monday in his hometown of Manjuyod in northern Negros Oriental, has implicated Vice Governor Jose Baldado as among those who had allegedly threatened to kill him.

The boy, Mario (not his real name), a resident of the hinterland village of Candabong, about 15 kms up in the mountains from the town proper, and his father, have sought the help of the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) in Dumaguete amid fears for their lives.

In an interview with reporters Friday, the boy said while he was walking to the Manjuyod National High School in the town proper early Monday morning, two men on board a motorcycle allegedly snatched him along the barangay road of Sitio Pansil in Barangay Sundo-an.

Mario identified the man who allegedly grabbed his right arm as a certain Romeo Sablada although the driver’s name was unknown to him. But he said he would recognize him the minute he saw him again.

The boy said he grazed his arm as he was squirming to break free from the clutches of Sablada, who allegedly managed to blindfold him.

Shortly thereafter, Mario said he found himself allegedly at the house of the vice governor, where he claimed to have spent an hour before he was brought again on board the motorcycle to the town proper.

Mario said Baldado allegedly told him in the dialect to tell his father to patch up an ongoing case or else the boy shall be kidnapped again and killed in three days.