Taguig Mayor Freddie Tiñga opposed Wednesday the transfer of Datu Unsay Mayor Andal Ampatuan Jr. to the city even as authorities prepared to move the mayor to Camp Bagong Diwa this Thursday.

Tiñga stressed that the local government is against the transfer because it poses a “clear and present danger” to the security of the city.

Ampatuan Jr. is the principal suspect in the grisly Maguindanao Massacre last November 23 wherein 57 civilians were murdered and then buried under dirt with a backhoe. The victims included 15 women, some of which were pregnant, and some 30 media practitioners.

The Maguindanao town mayor as well as other suspects in the massacre was still held at the National Bureau of Investigation’s (NBI) detention cell.

“We are against it and we will continue to oppose this move. I don’t think they thought this through,” Tiñga said in reaction to the Supreme Court (SC) decision Tuesday which green-lit the NBI’s request to have Ampatuan moved to Camp Bagong Diwa.

The SC in effect also granted a separate request from the Department of Justice (DoJ) to have the trial of the accused transferred to the same camp. Reports said that Camp Bagong Diwa already has a detention enter that could hold the high-profile suspect as well as a facility for the multiple murder charge-hearings.

The NBI — being the chief custodian of the suspects — was already mapping out its security plan to move Ampatuan to Taguig.

Acting Justice Secretary Alberto Agra said Ampatuan Jr. will be transferred Thursday to Camp Bagong Diwa in Taguig from the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) jail in Manila.

Justice Secretary said the NBI finalized the security measures for Andal who was scheduled to be taken out of the NBI jail at 10 a.m.