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SWORN STATEMENT
I, P/DIR. FRANKLIN JESUS B. BUCAYU (RET.), Filipino, of legal
age, with postal address at Jade Street, Hiyas Subdivision, Parada,
Valenzuela City, under oath, hereby depose and state that--
1.
Pursuant to House Resolution Nos. 105 and 314, re: Inquiry' in
aid of Legislation, on the Prol1f'eration of Drug Syndicates at the National
Bilibid Prison, I have been invited to appear before the Honorable
Comrru'ttee on Justice of the House of Representatives. I was also requested
by the said committee to submit my sworn statement 1n" relation to the aforesaid m'quiry. Hence, the m'stant sworn statement.
2.
For the record, I hereby categorically deny the claim made
before this august chamber by Mr. Herbert Colanggo, a convicted
inm'ate of the National Bilibid Prison (NBP), that I supposedly
requested or received a monthly "assistance" or payola from him when
I served as the Director of the Bureau of Corrections (BuCor) from
March 2013 to June 2015.
3.
I likewise categorically deny the statements of other
mm'ates, that I purportedly called for a meeting through Col. Ellie and
demanded for a weekly For the Boys or payola. I never authorized
Col. Ellie or anybody else to conduct such a meeting nor to collect
money from any mm'ate. If such meetings took place or such collections
were made, I assure you that they were without my knowledge.
4.
I never accepted any amount, not even a single centavo,
from any mm'ate 1n' any prison facility durin'g my stint as BuCor
Dir'ector. As a matter of fact, records Will clearly show that I have
ms'tituted policies to prevent over-familiarity between my staff and the
inm'ates which often breeds corruption. Still, those found erring were
consequently removed from BuCor.
5.
For the record, I was the fourth BuCor Director under the
previous adnum"straon. I assumed office on March 2013; almost three
startled runru-ng. the department.
years after the pare-v1.2'ous
Upon assuming the said post, I was shocked, like you, to learn of the
great magnitude and multitude of the deep-rooted problems of our
prison facilities resulting from decades of Government neglectthe
most appalling of which is that the NBP is no longer a prison but has
turned into a fort seemingly controlled by inmates; a walled
community of convicts.
6.
I learned that BuCor, unfortunately, did not have the
capability to manage its affairs and to stop the proliferation of
organized illegal activities within the penitentiaries. Among the major
problems that contributed to this are the following:
especially when resistance is strong from inside the prison walls and
when prisoners and personnel View BuCor directors as outsiders or as
temporary caretakers.
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perceived to have been sleeping on the job and that the operation
caught us at-footed.
24. The frustrations and feelings of abandonment after that
operation were too much to bear that I tendered my resignation to the
former Secretary of Justice on that same day. Finally, in February 10,
2015 I submitted my written letter of resignation to the former SO].
27.
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