{"id":9617,"date":"2022-10-30T18:32:21","date_gmt":"2022-10-30T18:32:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2022\/10\/30\/suspended-bucor-chief-bantag-i-would-rather-die-than-be-jailed\/"},"modified":"2022-10-30T18:32:22","modified_gmt":"2022-10-30T18:32:22","slug":"suspended-bucor-chief-bantag-i-would-rather-die-than-be-jailed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2022\/10\/30\/suspended-bucor-chief-bantag-i-would-rather-die-than-be-jailed\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspended BuCor chief Bantag: \u2018I would rather die, than be jailed\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/newsinfo.inquirer.net\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/10\/files\/2022\/10\/371697-e1666465862175-620x431.jpeg\" \/><br \/>MANILA, Philippines &#8212; Suspended Bureau of Corrections (BuCor) director-general Gerald Bantag on Sunday stated he would relatively die than be jailed over his alleged involvement within the homicide of radio commentator Percival &#8220;Percy Lapid&#8221; Mabasa.<\/p>\n<p>The suspended BuCor chief alsoreiterated his innocence.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Will I permit myself to be imprisoned? Just kill me if they are saying that I&#8217;m their goal. The authorities and I&#8217;ll simply find yourself making an attempt to kill one another,&#8221; Bantag stated in Filipino in his &#8220;Komentunying&#8221; interview with Anthony Taberna.<\/p>\n<p>Bantag was suspended by Justice Secretary Jesus Crispin &#8220;Boying&#8221; Remulla, to permit for an investigation into the dying of Crisanto Villamor Jr.<\/p>\n<p>Villamor&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Keep on studying: <a href=\"https:\/\/newsinfo.inquirer.net\/1687175\/suspended-bucor-chief-bantag-i-would-rather-die-than-be-jailed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Suspended BuCor chief Bantag: &#8216;I&#8217;d relatively die, than be jailed&#8217;<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] MANILA, Philippines &#8212; Suspended Bureau of Corrections (BuCor) director-general Gerald Bantag on Sunday stated he would relatively die than be jailed over his alleged involvement within the homicide of radio commentator Percival &#8220;Percy Lapid&#8221; Mabasa. The suspended BuCor chief alsoreiterated his innocence. &#8220;Will I permit myself to be imprisoned? Just kill me if they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9619,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9617","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9617\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}