CITY OF NAGA — She lost her old tablet to a robber who barged into their billeting quarters during the CVIRAA meet. Yesterday, she received a brand new one from an angel who refused to be identified.
Leonard Wood Elementary School principal Miriam Morata was beyond disbelief, when she was handed a brand new tablet, a similar model she lost during the robbery incident, by DepEd officials during yesterday’s closing ceremonies.
Morata along with Mandaue City officials Abundio Jimenez, the principal of Tingub National High School and Joel Duralza, the master teacher of Opao Elementary School were robbed at gunpoint at their billeting quarters by an unidentified man last Sunday.
“I am very thankful to the City Mayor of Naga, to the very generous person who bought this tablet phone and to the Naga City Superintendent because they really exerted effort to comfort me. I am really thankful,” Morata told CDN.
She said that the incident really scared her that she initially vowed never to serve in the CVIRAA again.
“But after the people of Naga City showed their compassion to me and my colleagues, I think I will continue to serve the CVIRAA. What’s important to me is that we are all safe.”
Morata though, still wants the perpetrator to be brough to justice, because of the trauma that she and her fellow victims suffered.
Naga City officials told CDN that they are still conducting follow-up operations to catch the assailant.