By LITO RULONA Correspondent A TRIBAL group in an outlying village in Opol town in Misamis Oriental yesterday called out for help even as they accused police officers of harassment. The San Simon-Bagocboc Malanang Tribal Council accused members of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) and the Regional Public Safety Battalion (RPSB) of illegally barging into the house of its leader in Barangay Bagocboc on Tuesday. Vivian Tawakal Baroza, chairperson of the San Simon-Bagocboc Malanang Tribal Council/Ancestral Domain, asked the Misamis Oriental police office and the capitol to step in and investigate the alleged harassment. The 53-year old Baroza, also known as Bae Dayan-Dayan, of Sitio Kala-Kala in Bagocboc, said some 100 officers from the CIDG and RPSB raided  her house without a proper search warrant. Baroza said what the police showed them was a search warrant against Julieto Andam Bahian who was from Barangay San Simon in Cagayan de Oro. She alleged that the officers, in full battle gear and with no nameplates, destroyed fences and her house’s main door. “Dili sila gatubag unsa ilang purpose sa ilang pag-adto didto. Ang nakadaut kay ilang gipangtangtang ilang mga nameplates and patches so that they could not be identified,” Baroza said. She said one of the men subsequently introduced himself as Supt. Melgar Devaras, deputy director for regional operations of the CIDG, and showed her the supposed search warrant. Baroza said tribal leaders checked the warrant, supposedly issued issued by Regional Trial Court Executive Judge Dennis Alcantar, and found out the police raided the wrong house. “The house of Bahian is located at Zone 2, Sitio Panginoman, Barangay San Simon, Cagayan de Oro, and not in Barangay Bagocboc, Opol, Misamis Oriental,” Baroza said. She said Devaras told her that they searched her house and her neighbors’ for Bahian’s alleged M14 rifle and caliber .45 pistol. “Layo ra man intawon kining among balay sa San Simon. Ngano nga kami ang ilang gi-ataki. Gi-ingnan pa gyud ang usa ka lumad nga naa kuno sila sa among lugar tungod kay mga rebelde kuno kami og mga member sa New People’s Army,” said Baroza, adding that she and other villagers were traumatized. She also complained that the officers made young villagers line up in the middle of the village’s basketball court. “Gikuha ang ilang mga cellphone tanan aron walay maka-kuha og hulagway apan andam kami mopamatuod sa tanan,” Baroza alleged. Deveras, for his part, denied allegations made by the tribal group. He maintained that the police did the right thing and violated no law. Deveras said the police were after 10 murder suspects, all indigenes, and were serving a search warrant. All of the suspects escaped, he said.