CEBU CITY–Bohol Gov. Edgar Chatto released on Thursday P100,000 in financial assistance to the ongoing search for the missing Bien Unido Mayor Gisela Boniel.
According to the statement issued by the Bohol provincial government on Thursday afternoon, Chatto handed the assistance to Chief Supt. Noli Taliño, police director for Central Visayas.
Chatto also called Lapu-Lapu City Mayor Paz Radaza to personally thank her for her government’s support for Gisela’s search.
The statement said the League of Municipalities of the Philippines (LMP) through its Bohol-chapter president, Clarin Mayor Allen Rey Piezas, would hand in P50,000 to to help defray the cost of ongoing search for Gisela who was believed to have been thrown into the sea between Cebu and Bohol after she was allegedly shot by her husband, Bohol Board Member Niño Rey Boniel.
Acting Bien Unido Mayor Rene Borinaga sent a team of divers on Thursday morning to help in search.