SIXTEEN high-profile inmates from the New Bilibid Prison on Tuesday denied the reports of a conspiracy to kill President-elect Rodrigo Duterte and incoming Philippine National Police Chief Ronald Dela Rosa.
In a manifesto, a copy of which was sent to outgoing Justice Secretary Emmanuel Caparas, the 16 inmates expressed fears the rumors about a P50-million bounty allegedly put up by drug lords to silence the alleged targets might have been intended to justify their liquidation.
“Kami ay nanindigan na walang sinuman sa amin ang sangkot sa planong ito kung totoong mayroon man,” says the manifesto signed by the 16 inmates from Building 14.
Building 14 is located within the Maximum Security Compound of the NBP. It has 29 cells, CCTV cameras and signal jammers, and is heavily guarded.
The facility used to be the death chamber for the convicts scheduled to be executed in the electric chair.
A total of 84 inmates were executed in the building, and the last execution there took place on Oct. 21, 1976.
Dela Rosa earlier claimed that some drug lords had put up a P50-million bounty to get him and Duterte killed.
