Around 20 jail guards in the New Bilibid Prison have been relieved from their posts after Michael Angelo Cataroja, a prisoner or person deprived of liberty (PDL), went missing, Bureau of Corrections Director-General Gregorio Catapang Jr. said Friday.
Catapang maintained that Cataroja had fled the national penitentiary and that his mother wants to surrender him to Senator Raffy Tulfo.
“We have a stakeout in Angono, Rizal where Cataroja’s mother lives.
There is development there. According to the mother, she wants to surrender her son to Senator Tulfo,” Catapang said in an interview on Dobol B TV.
Referring to the jail guards, Catapang said: “All of them are under investigation, and of course, they have been relieved of their posts.
They are all jail guards, about 20 of them.”
These jail guards were on duty when Cataroja went missing, but Catapang refused to identify them as they are still under investigation.
He also reiterated that Cataroja might have escaped from NBP by riding a garbage truck.