Bureau of Corrections (BuCor) officer-in-charge Gregorio Catapang Jr. on Tuesday stated they may proceed with the development of a brand new headquarters in a property in Tanay, Rizal if consultants can be certain that the world might be protected.
Catapang stated he’ll seek the advice of with consultants from the UP Urban Planning Center.
“Yeah, I will recommend that we push through with it without violating the ecological environment. In as much as this is a property that we also have move into. Right now we don’t have facilities near,” Catapang stated in an interview on ANC.
This comes amid issues from the Masungi Georeserve Foundation that the world being eyed by BuCor is inside its territory.
For his half, Catapang stated that he’s keen to speak with the Masungi Foundation.
“In fact, there are already intermediaries. We’re putting up [a] chat group to really discuss this informally and maybe when the time comes, we can discuss this sitting down, face to face,” he stated.
The BuCor OIC additionally reiterated that there was a proclamation issued underneath the Macapagal-Arroyo administration that gave BuCor that parcel of land.
Catapang beforehand stated Bucor’s rights on the property had been primarily based on the switch certificates issued in September 2006 underneath Presidential Proclamation 1158.
“And it stated that it would be a new site of the New Bilibid Prison and the field office site of the DENR. So I was just following the instructions,” he stated. — Joahna Lei Casilao/RSJ, GMA Integrated News
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