It’s
a valid question that calls for an answer.
Bureau of Corrections (BuCor)
chief Gerald Bantag, was not able to hold his punches when he jabbed at the
senators who demanded his resignation over the deaths of high-profile drug
convicts who have been declared to succumbed from the novel coronavirus 2019
disease.
“Why are you so interested in
their deaths? Are your protectors of the drug lords,” Bantag told senators who
are pushing for the investigation of convicted drug lord Jaybee Sebastian and
eight others.
Bureau of Corrections (BuCor) chief Gerald Bantag (photo credit to owner) |
The BuCor chief asked twhy the
senators are so interested to the death of the nine COVID-19 fatalities when
there were 21 persons deprived of liberty (PDL) actually died due to the
disease.
“Twenty-one PDL died because of
COVID. Now, why are they questioning only the deaths of nine inmates who were
high-profile? Why don’t they investigate the other 12?,” Bantag said during an
exclusive radio interview.
Department of Justice (DOJ)
Secretary Menardo Guevarra has ordered the National Bureau of Investigation to
launch a probe regarding the matter.
Senate Minority Leader Franklin
Drilon of the Liberal Party and Blue Ribbon Committee Chairman Senator Richard
Gordon also demanded the necessary probe.
Senate
President Vicente Sotto III and Senator Risa Hontiveros who is also part of the
opposition bloc in the Senate filed resolutions to conduct a Senate
investigation in relation to the deaths of the nine (9) high-profile NBP
inmates, who had been cremated without informing first the DOJ.
Bantag
have been reiterating that they were just protecting the privacy of the PDL to
keep them away from the “stigma of prison,” the reason why they initially
concealed the fatalities’ identities.
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