{"id":245504,"date":"2020-02-20T05:34:07","date_gmt":"2020-02-20T10:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=245504"},"modified":"2020-02-20T05:34:07","modified_gmt":"2020-02-20T10:34:07","slug":"palace-condemns-killing-of-bucors-top-lawyer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/02\/20\/palace-condemns-killing-of-bucors-top-lawyer\/","title":{"rendered":"Palace condemns killing of BuCor\u2019s top lawyer"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u201cWe condemn any act of violence.\u00a0Palagi kaming ganyan<\/em>\u00a0(That will always be our stand). As a matter of policy, we condemn any transgressions of the law, any violation inflicted on any person, any murder, we condemn that,\u201d Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo said in a media interview. (File Photo<\/a>: Office of the Presidential Spokesperson\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0— Malaca\u00f1ang condemned Wednesday’s killing of Bureau of Corrections (BuCor) legal service chief Frederic Santos by unknown assailants in Muntinlupa City.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe condemn any act of violence.\u00a0Palagi kaming ganyan<\/em>\u00a0(That will always be our stand). As a matter of policy, we condemn any transgressions of the law, any violation inflicted on any person, any murder, we condemn that,\u201d Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo said in a media interview.<\/p>\n

Santos had been among those who appeared before the Senate during a legislative inquiry into the anomalous implementation of the Expanded Good Conduct Time Allowance (GCTA) law where a number of convicts not entitled to benefit from it were apparently released.<\/p>\n

Panelo dismissed that it has anything to do with the government\u2019s crackdown on corruption stressing Santos\u2019 ambush might have been the result of \u201cpersonal conflict.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe don\u2019t know exactly whether or not this is a personal case meaning it might be a retaliation from some personal wrongdoing that he has committed,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The death of Santos, he said, will not stop the government from investigating the GCTA because other individuals will come out to expose corrupt activities in the New Bilibid Prison (NBP).<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople will always reveal certain truths about their agencies, offices.\u00a0Lalabas at lababas \u2018yan. Hindi lahat ng tao kasama sa mga<\/em>\u00a0(It will come out. Not everyone is part of a) conspiracy on corruption,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

He said Palace will await results of the investigation to be conducted by the Philippine National Police (PNP) and hopes justice will be served.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have to investigate what happened to that person,\u201d said Panelo, also Chief Presidential Legal Counsel.<\/p>\n

Reports showed that Santos was gunned down in front of the Southernside Montessori School along Katihan St. in Barangay Poblacion as he was about to fetch his daughter from the school.<\/p>\n

The victim was on board a Toyota Hilux pickup when two unidentified men appeared and shot the victim\u2019s head before fleeing to an unknown direction.<\/p>\n

In August last year, Ruperto Traya Jr., chief administrative officer 3 of BuCor, was also gunned down in Muntinlupa City.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

MANILA\u00a0— Malaca\u00f1ang condemned Wednesday’s killing of Bureau of Corrections (BuCor) legal service chief Frederic Santos by unknown assailants in Muntinlupa …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":187138,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-azer-parrocha","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245504"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":245505,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245504\/revisions\/245505"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}