SENATOR Grace Poe wants a Senate investigation on the reportedly increasing number of kidnappings of children and other individuals in Metro Manila and Luzon.

The senator is set to file a resolution urging the Senate committee on public order and dangerous drugs to conduct an inquiry on the incidents.

“An abduction case is one too many. We cannot allow this situation to threaten our people’s safety and trample on our efforts to help them get through the difficult times,” Poe lamented.

Philippine Chinese Chamber of Commerce and Industry Inc. President Lugene Ang earlier reported in the last 10 days, a total of 56 kidnapping incidents involving Filipino and Chinese nationals, including children, occured.

PCCCII also detailed the kidnappers use torture and intimidation, rape women, and send the videos to the victims’ relatives demanding huge sums of money.

In some cases, the victims were even sold to other kidnapping groups.

Poe pressed in her resolution that there is an urgent need to determine the status of these cases, possible motives, agency efforts to identify the perpetrators, and the measures instituted by relevant authorities to prevent the continuous rise of abduction cases in the country.

“There is also a need to ascertain claims that foreign nationals are conducting these criminal activities,” the resolution added.