By Glazyl Y. Masculino
BACOLOD City – A lawyer here donated an 11-hectare lot to the Bureau of Corrections (BuCor) at Barangay Tabunan, Bago City, Negros Occidental.
Asec. Gabrielle Chaclag, BuCor’s chief information officer, and Jail Chief Superintendent Arnold Buenacosa, regional director of Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP)-6, witnessed the signing of the Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) between Atty. Leon Moya and the BuCor at the Negros Occidental Police Provincial Office (Nocppo) headquarters here last Wednesday.
Police Lieutenant Abegael Donasco, Nocppo’s information officer, said that aside from Moya’s donation to BuCor, they were also informed that he will also donate 10 hectares of land to the local Philippine National Police (PNP).
Donasco said Moya initially donated the land to the BJMP, but the said law enforcement agency could not think of a possible use for the land, thus it was decided to divide it between the PNP and the BuCor.
Donasco, however, said that there has been no signing of MOA yet between Moya and the PNP.
Meanwhile, officials from the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA), BuCor, and BJMP paid a courtesy visit to Governor Eugenio Lacson at the Provincial Capitol here last Tuesday.
The group conducted a site visit at Barangay Tabunan for a proposed satellite center for the reformation of persons deprived of liberty (PDLs) in Western Visayas, according to a post of the provincial government.
This is a result of an earlier resolution by the Regional Development Council – 6 asking the national government to decentralize the National Bilibid Prison (NBP) and establish a branch in the region so that the PDLs need not be remitted to NBP in Muntinlupa, and for ease of visit by their families.
