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2, 2015
NR # 3730B
Erice noted that a few weeks after PSO1 Veneracion prepared a report to NBP Supt.
Celso Bravo about the numerous signal boosters he discovered inside the maximum
compound and supported it with photos thereof, instead of being supported and
commended for his work, he was allegedly relieved of his post.
While there still exist honest members from the ranks of the Bureau who faithfully
perform their official mandate, threats not only to their lives, but also to their careers,
cannot just be disregarded, Erice stressed.
Erice further noted that in the last two years alone, three (3) people from the Bureau
were killed under a suspected work-related circumstances: (a) Supt. Francisco Abonates,
assigned at the office of Director Franklin Bucayu, was killed on September 17, 2013 by
two gunmen right inside the compound of the BNP; (b) Noel Villacorta, a doctor working
for the NBP Hospital was killed on January 7, 2014 in a street attack in barangay Putalan,
Muntinlupa City; (c) PG1 Gerard Donato, a young member of a team that seized drugs
and firearms from drug pushers in the NBP on various occasions, was murdered last
October 21, 2014 in broad daylight in the same barangay.
The audacity of these prisoners to repeatedly violate the laws, disregard the
policies of the NBP and threat the NBP premises as their own little kingdom stemmed
from their connections to corrupt officials and personnel of the NBP themselves, in
addition to their capacity to communicate with and pay hired gunmen for those who
cannot be bought by their money, Erice said. (30) dpt