Gerald Bantag, the newly appointed chief of the Bureau of Corrections (BuCor), vowed not to shave his beard if the anomalies within the bureau persists.
“For me, my beard serves as a mark that as long as it is there, problems within BuCor have not been addressed. Once it’s gone, it’s already OK,” Bantag said in Tagalog when interviewed by AM radio station DZMM as per a report by the Philippine Daily Inquirer.
Bantag is taking over BuCor after President Rodrigo Duterte fired Nicanor Faeldon for the release of over nearly 2,000 heinous crime convicts.
Bantag said he started his job at BuCor three days ago.
The new BuCor chief said he has yet to make the rounds of the maximum security prison as he is prioritizing the arrangement of the internal management, the report said.
