Its just a matter of setting the facts straight.
Presidential Spokesperson Secretary and Chief
Presidential Legal Counsel Atty. Salvador S. Panelo in a statement said, “As revealed during the discussions during
the congressional hearing yesterday, it has been the practice of the Bureau of
Corrections, during the previous administration, to release persons deprived of
liberty from imprisonment due to good conduct, regardless of whether they were
serving their sentences for a conviction of a heinous crime or not,”
“The basis for this practice was the Implementing
Rules and Regulations (IRR) of the law, crafted and issued jointly by former
Secretary of Justice and now detained Leila De Lima and former Secretary of the
Interior and Local Government, Manuel Roxas II, in 2014, which included those
convicted of heinous crimes as qualified to avail the benefits of RA No.
10592,” Panelo added.
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| Presidential Spokesperson Sal Panelo, convicted felon Antonio Sanchez, and Nicanor Faeldon (photo credit to CNN) |
Atty.Panelo
notes that the implementation and granting GCTA to those convicted of heinous
crimes has also been existent years before President Rodrigo Duterte assumed
his presidential seat.
“Meanwhile, the
sudden increase in number of those purported to be eligible to avail of the
benefits of GCTA was due to the recent ruling by the Supreme Court, a separate
and independent branch of the government, which held that RA No. 10592 should
be applied retroactively,” Panelo explained.
Panelo added
that “as regards the officials in the Bureau of Corrections, the President will
maintain the status quo until the congressional hearings are concluded. He will
be monitoring the conduct of the legislative investigation and give appropriate
consideration to the findings of Congress.”
“We stress that
the granting of GCTA is not a form of executive clemency, the awarding of which
belongs to the Office of the President. The buck in this case stops with the
Bureau of Corrections,” Panelo said.
“The President
will not tolerate any form of injustice being committed under his watch and it
is for this reason that he will ensure that the practice initiated by the past
administration on the granting of GCTA will no longer continue,” he added.
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