Rolito Go, who was freed under GCTA law, among those who did not surrender before 15-day deadline

 

(Eagle News)–Rolito Go, who was freed under the Good Conduct Time Allowance law, was among those who did not surrender before the 15-day deadline.

Go was convicted of the 1991 killing of Dela Salle University engineering student Eldon Maguan in a road rage incident in San Juan City.

This was confirmed by National Capital Region Police Office Chief Guillermo Eleazar, who said he has already deployed tracker teams to look for the 176 convicts who did not turn themselves in to authorities by midnight.

It was President Rodrigo Duterte who gave the convicts released under the GCTA law 15 days to surrender or be treated as fugitives.

Duterte’s order came following reports some convicts were released by unscrupulous Bureau of Corrections personnel who received payment from the inmate’s family.

But the Department of Justice on Friday, Sept. 20, said it had asked the Philippine National Police to hold the re-arrest of the convicts who did not surrender before the deadline pending the cleansing of the Bureau of Corrections list that would serve as a guide for the authorities to conduct their re-arrest.

The BuCor list was found to contain errors in a Senate probe looking into the problems in the bureau.

The list for instance said that plunder convict Janet Lim Napoles had been convicted of rape.