By LITO RULONA, Correspondent THE city council’s police and public safety committee, and the committee on energy would look into Tuesday’s grenade attack that hurt four people in Sitio Cabula in Barangay Lumbia. Authorities suspected that the attack was due to a small business rivalry over the sale of bootleg fuel which city hall officially banned this year through an ordinance. Councilor Teodulfo Lao Jr., chairman of the energy committee, said the grenade attack was a concern of his committee in that it was related to “bote-bote” or the illegal retail of gasoline. He said the grenade explosion was also a concern of the city council’s police and public safety committee. Lao is a member of that committee. Lao said the incident raised concerns that the city’s so-called “Anti-bote-bote Ordinance” has not been fully implemented by a task force headed by the City Treasurer’s Office. “We will ask the task force if they have observed, and followed the provisions of the ordinance,” he said. He said the ordinance was passed to protect people and avoid damage to property. “But this time, it has worsened kay nagkagubot na hinoon ang matag-kompetensiya based on the police report. This must be stopped,” Lao said. City police director Senior Supt. Ronnie Francis Cariaga said the explosion hurt Julius Javier, 31, his common law wife Zaibee Villarin, 29, a teenager and a six-year old girl. Javier and Villarin own Julsal Store that engages in the illegal retail of fuel. “We need to investigate, and know the reason why there are still people who are illegally selling petroleum products in the city. We want to know from the task force if they are efficient and effective in implementing the ordinance,” Lao said.