By Anthony S. Allada
Security personnel of the city government arrested a call center agent for allededly trying to steal a Philippine flag from the Davao City hall Friday dawn.
But when 23-year-old Markxell Inabiogan was brought to the nearby San Pedro police station, he said he had no intention of stealing the flag.
“I just do not want the flag to get wet by the rain,” he told the police.
However, retired policeman Anahaw, team leader of the city hall security team, Inabiogan was not authorized to lower the flag.
The flag retreat, he said, is done every Friday afternoon.
Inabiogan was caught by security guards while lowering the flag from its pole.
Security staff made the arrest on suspicion the suspect would replace it with something else.
Inabiogan is facing a theft charge even as authorities are still looking into other possible violations that he made with regards to the handling of the Philippine Flag.
