Buenafe named officer-in-charge of Bureau of Corrections

September 6, 2019

Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra has designated Assistant Justice Secretary Melvin Ramon Buenafe officer-in-charge of the Office of the Bureau of Corrections director general.

He also created a committee headed by Justice Undersecretary Deo Marco, with assistant justice eecretaries Neal Bainto and George Ortha II to exercise close administrative supervision over the Bureau pending appointment by the president of a new director general.

President Rodrigo Duterte fired Nicanor Faeldon as director general of the Bureau of Corrections on Wednesday. DMS