ALTUBAR RELIEVED

Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP) 7 Director, Senior Supt.
Maximo Altubar, became the latest casualty in the controversies hounding
the Bagong Buhay Rehabilitation Center (BBRC).

Altubar was ordered replaced while a new BBRC warden was named.

The movements were announced yesterday by Interior and Local Government
Undersecretary for Peace and Order Marius Corpus, who headed the
fact-finding team tasked by Secretary Joey Lina to investigate the alleged
irregularities at BBRC.

Issues hounding the city jail included special treatment given to rich
inmates and drug trafficking.

Corpus identified the new BJMP 7 Regional Director as Senior Supt. Rey
Berden, a Cebuano whose family is based in barangay Gun-ob, Lapu-Lapu City,
while Cebuano-speaking Supt. Primitivo Benitez was named the new BBRC warden.