BuCor chief: 'If 'squatters' can build shanties at NBP, let me build mine at military camp'
Published July 4, 2021, 12:00 PM If the Bureau of Corrections (BuCor) will be prevented from dismantling shanties built by informal settlers within the National Bilibid Prison (NBP) area in Muntinlupa City, BuCor chief Undersecretary Gerald Bantag said he should also be given the same right to build a house inside Camp Aguinaldo. Bantag’s line of reasoning stunned members of the House Committee on Justice during a recent inquiry into the NBP decisions to demolish a colony of informal settlers within its over 300 hectare property in Muntinlupa and the sealing off of a national road also with...