New panel to exercise “close admin supervision” over BuCor pending Duterte appointment of new BuCor chief
(Eagle News)–The Bureau of Corrections has an officer-in-charge.
Justice spokesperson Markk Perete said Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra has assigned Assistant Secretary and Deputy Director General Melvin Ramon G. Buenafe to the post left vacated by sacked BuCor director-general Nicanor Faeldon.
Faeldon was relieved by President Rodrigo Duterte following the release of convicts of heinous crimes under the Good Conduct Time Allowance law, and the near-release of former Calauan, Laguna Mayor Antonio Sanchez, who was convicted of the murder and rape of Eileen Sarmenta and of the murder of her friend Allan Gomez in the 1990s.
Perete said Guevarra has also created a committee headed by Justice Undersecretary Deo L. Marco, with Assistant Secretaries Neal V. Bainto and George Ortha II to “exercise close administrative supervision over the Bureau pending appointment by the President of a new Director General.”