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'Bantag is the picture-perfect poster boy of impunity.' ThoughtLeaders Opinion
Ang unang makikinabang diyan ay ‘yang gusto akong masibak diyanIf we go by his bizarre logic, Percy Lapid was assassinated so that he, Bantag, would be ousted from his position as BuCor director general. In other words, Lapid was just a sacrificial lamb.” was a comment oft repeated by Taberna’s viewers.
In actual reality, however, inmates are the ones sycophantic to the director general. Bilibid gangs who obey kill orders do so Bantag is the picture-perfect poster boy of impunity. While he was an official of the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology in 2014, Bantag refused to pay his bill in a restaurant and fired his gun. The Malabon prosecutor’s office charged him with His record was no longer immaculate even at that time.
one after another allegedly due to the coronavirus. Among the dead was Jaybee Sebastian, a key witness in what is popularly held as the Duterte-orchestrated drug trafficking charges against former senator Leila de Lima. Speculations were raised that they were either eliminated or released secretly. The bodies of the inmates were immediately cremated.
In the Taberna interview, Bantag also admitted that donors had been giving him money which had accumulated over time.
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