In a nine-page resolution, Justice Secretary Raul Gonzales dismissed the charges against Tampakan municipal administrator Bienvenido Barroso and businessman Henry Barroso due to insufficient evidence.
Gonzales directed the provincial prosecutor of South Cotabato "to cause the withdrawal of the information" filed against the two.
The Barrosos were implicated in the killing of Gregorio Banal, a Lakas-CMD mayoral candidate, on July 28 last year.
Banal was gunned down by three unidentified men in front of his auto repair shop in the Tampakan town proper. — Ramil Bajo