00:00 One can only hope to contain, not eradicate, or completely wipe out the illegal drug trade on the streets and in prison.
00:07 A sad but true state of affairs on the distribution of illegal drugs inside and outside the National Believed Prison
00:14 that Bucor Chief Greg Catapang disclosed in today's Senate hearing.
00:18 And in today's coverage at the Senate, inmates have been so clever in devising ways to conceal and move narcotics by way of body cavities
00:27 where the sun don't shine and pigeons as accessories in concealment.
00:31 The controversial Believed Inmate, Michael Cataroja, who managed to escape the prison, apologized for his shenanigans that day.
00:42 In today's continuation of the Senate hearing...
00:45 Michael, did you already escape that time when it was already a bit loose?
00:52 Did you lose your guard?
00:54 Yes, it was loose. After I entered, it was loose. I had no e-mail, no e-mail.
01:01 They didn't allow me to go inside. I had no e-mail.
01:06 Inside?
01:07 At maximum. I had no e-mail.
01:09 However, he claimed that there were security lapses and took advantage of them.
01:14 I apologize to all the viewers who watched what I did.
01:20 I apologize to you.
01:22 You have a request to be forgiven?
01:24 Yes. To all the viewers who watched, especially to the people who are forgiven, who are in the country.
01:32 Yes, yes, yes, Sputnik.
01:33 Yes. I hope you will forgive me for what I did.
01:40 Did your relatives talk to you again?
01:43 No.
01:44 Are they angry with you?
01:45 I'm sure. Because they fought. All of them fought.
01:49 All of them fought?
01:51 Yes. Especially, all of them were at maximum.
01:55 But no one talked to you, "Okay, okay, Sputnik."
01:58 No one.
01:59 Except for... But you promised. Okay, continue what you were saying.
02:02 I hope the police, the local police, the mayor, apologize to you. I hope you will forgive me.
02:11 Meanwhile, Senator Robin Hood Padilla seems not to be convinced in some of Cata Rojas' claims.
02:18 It seems impossible to happen.
02:20 Because for the past three years in the Philippines, there has always been a keeper.
02:25 At maximum, there is no keeper. Is that so, Michael?
02:29 I was surprised that you are still alive.
02:31 Because what you did during our time, you said the truth.
02:35 If you did that, you served the whole population. You will be a bit disgraced.
02:42 Meanwhile, Bucor Chief Gregorio Catapang Jr. admitted that the problem on illegal drugs inside the national penitentiary still remains.
02:51 He also narrated some of the gimmicks they discovered.
02:55 What we are doing now, that's why we are asking for your help,
02:58 is to put shabu in the condom.
03:05 Then we will put it on the ******* of the women.
03:08 We cannot just cover the women. We will be charged by the UN.
03:13 But there is still something left.
03:15 The latest, Mr. Chair, is the calapatis.
03:21 The children or their visitors bring eggs and incubate them.
03:27 After so many months, they will be incubated.
03:30 Then they will be raised. The calapatis will teach them to fly around.
03:35 When their visitors arrive, they will be given the calapatis.
03:39 Then the calapatis will learn to return to their roots.
03:43 Under his leadership, he told the senators that more or less 2 million pesos of illegal drugs has been seized.
03:51 It's just one of the problems he's challenged to straighten out and resolve.
03:56 Daniel Mananastas for The Nation.
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