Former Justice Secretary and now Solicitor General Menardo I. Guevarra said the Bureau of Corrections (BuCor) “needs a total overhaul” and the Department of Justice (DOJ) should have “full control” over the bureau.
Former Justice Secretary and now Solicitor General Menardo I. Guevarra said the Bureau of Corrections “needs a total overhaul” and the Department of Justice should have “full control” over the bureau.
“Sadly, however, the huge excavation inside the NBP was purposely hidden from the knowledge of the DOJ,” he noted. Among the controversies that surfaced after being tagged in the two murder complaints were Bantag’s signing of the JVA with the ATOM and the large excavation inside the Bilibid compound.
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