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BY RESEL JOY TIANERO
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Monday, June 19, 2017
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ILOILO City – Senior Inspector Abner Zamora will remain as warden of the Iloilo District Jail (IDJ) in Barangay Nanga, Pototan, Iloilo despite his appointment as operations officer of the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP) Region 6.
Zamora was recently hailed as the country’s Best District Jail Warden of the Year by the BJMP national office.
One of his advocacies is the education of inmates.
“An educated person has a better perspective of things,” said Zamora.
Education is an effective tool to fight criminality, he stressed.
Superintendent Gilbert Peremne, assistant regional director of BJMP, expressed confidence in Zamora as operations officer of the bureau.
IDJ recently attracted controversy. Several arrested women drug pushing suspects claimed they received instructions from IDJ detainees.
Following this allegation, 32 guards of the IDJ were relieved from their posts. Zamora, however, insisted his men were not involved in illegal drugs.
Still, he admitted that his guards’ reassignment aimed to prevent them from getting too cozy with inmates.
The sacked guards had been serving the IDJ for four or five years already. They were reassigned to other jails in Iloilo city and province.
The replacement guards for the IDJ came from other jail facilities such as those in the Iloilo towns of Guimbal, Barotac Viejo, Dumangas, and Pototan, and the BJMP male and female dormitories in Iloilo City.
According to Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency Region 6 director Gil Pabilona recently, jails appeared to be the “weakest link” in the war against illegal drugs.
From their cells, detained drug personalities continue to direct the operation of their minions outside, he revealed.
He specifically named the Iloilo City District Jail – Male Dormitory in Barangay Ungka, Jaro district but said this modus was being practiced not only in that prison facility but in other jails being overseen by the BJMP.
“The illegal drugs supply in Iloilo will not stop unless those people inside the jail will stop directing their people outside what to do,” stressed Pabilona./PN
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