Village Leaders Demand Answers After Indian Creek Incident

Weeks after the shocking abduction of Indian Creek’s first alcalde, questions still hang heavy in Toledo. No new details have emerged about what happened that night, but the incident has sparked fresh concern across the district. The Toledo District Association of Village Councils is sounding the alarm, warning that the abduction didn’t happen in a vacuum. In a public statement, DAVCO condemned the attack and urged authorities to do more to protect village leaders. But beyond safety, the association says the episode has exposed a deeper fault line, long simmering tensions between village chairpersons and alcaldes over power, authority, and unclear roles. In Toledo’s villages, DAVCO says, overlapping leadership isn’t just a bureaucratic headache, it’s becoming a real threat to stability on the ground.

 

Gregory Choco, President, DAVCO

“Because it is involving our chairperson and the village council members in Indian Creek because from then when the missing alcalde went on the date. Couple days, couple nights from then, he went back home and from now we don’t hear no kinda statement or we don’t hear no kind of, press release that what all happens to him or who is the person involved in whatever he been through? No, because the thing is that, everything is in the police hands already and we just want to know. Exactly who is behind what’s happened to the alcalde, you know, because we just want to make sure they clear the name of the chairperson because, as you know, the chairperson went to the station along with the village council members. They were questioned, and released back. Since 2015 when the CCG ruling, been in place. There has been increasing tension, misunderstanding, and conflict over roles and responsibilities of the alcalde and the chairperson, you know? And that is where now that we really do not really happy with what’s happening. It’s not only Indian Creek, we have different communities that is facing the same trouble. That’s the reason why that we are sending out our press release as well, that, you know, we at least try and need somebody to come to Toledo and meet with the chairman and meet with the alcalde. And we beg this because I believe that it is the only person who could do that is the attorney general, because we are governed by the government.”

 

DAVCO President Gregory Choco says his organization is now calling on the Attorney General to come to Toledo to meet with both parties and find a resolution, warning that Indian Creek is not the only community facing this kind of friction.

 

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