LIKE surveillance cameras, cellular phone jammers are also installed inside New Bilibid Prisons (NBP) in Muntinlupa City (Metro Manila).
But an informant told The Manila Times on Monday that these mean practically nothing to the Chinese drug lords imprisoned at the national penitentiary.
“Communication is very important to [the] Chinese drug lords,” The Times source said.
“They installed several boosters to give them a good mobile signal” so that “they can still continue dishing out instructions to their subordinates in the field,” he added.
According to him, the drug lords—led by a certain Warren Zingapan—regularly pay huge sums of money to NBP and Bureau of Corrections officials to keep these gadgets protected.
Zingapan, the informant said, occupies one of the remaining seven well-furnished “kubols” (huts) inside the NBP’s Building 13.
The continued presence of these hotel-like huts has prompted employees of the maximum-security facility to reiterate their request to Secretary Leila de Lima of the Department of Justice to proceed with the demolition of the kubols and ship out Zingapan to a penal farm and colony.
De Lima issued the demolition order on June 7 after she saw how these huts were filled with several amenities.
But she suspended the order two days after receiving word that inmates threatened to riot should she push through with it.
It turned out that information was concocted by corrupt NBP and corrections bureau officials, as well as gang leaders, to deceive the Justice secretary.
Manuel Co, officer-in-charge of the corrections bureau, also on Monday met with the custodial guards assigned at the NBP to thresh out ways on how to tear down the remaining kubols.
“Mr. Co wants to know where to place the materials after they were knocked down and what to do with them,” said The Times source.
By Jaime Pilapil, The Manila Times
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