BUREAU of Corrections Director General Gregorio Catapang Jr. yesterday said he has accepted the resignation of Jail S/Insp. Angelina Bautista as his executive assistant amid the various controversies surrounding her.
But Catapang said Bautista’s resignation “will not stop the investigation being conducted by the Bureau to ferret out the truth and to also give her a chance to defend and clear her name.”
Catapang also directed Bautista to surrender all the government properties issued to her before she can be granted clearance.
In a statement, the agency said Bautista tendered her resignation effective August 11 as Executive Assistant IV of the Office of the Director General, saying she was “no longer comfortable working due to the controversies and baseless accusations” against her and the BuCor.
“My resignation does not mean that I am admitting there are malicious and unfounded issues incriminating my untainted years of public service. I wanted peace, not only for my family but for the entire Bureau of Corrections. I wanted to leave proud, untainted and uncorrupted, regardless of how people might perceive it,” the agency quoted Bautista as saying in her resignation letter.
Bautista also served as OIC at the Office of the Deputy Director General for Operations.
Bautista’s resignation came days after she and C/Supt. Geraldo Aro were relieved from their posts.
Aro served as Director of the Directorate for Administration and Superintendent of the Davao Prison and Penal Farm.
The House Committee on Public Order and Safety, investigating the disappearance of Bilibid inmate Michael Cataroja last July 15, had earlier raised several issues against Bautista.
She is being linked to an alleged construction business inside the Correctional Institute for Women (CIW) in Mandaluyong City, an accusation she denied.
Bautista is also being accused as the owner of a catering service that won the P21 million contract to provide food for CIW inmates.
