Tagarda said Jandaya has been convicted of rape and robbery, Batalona of murder, and Tabora of car theft.
Last Tuesday’s jail break was the second attempt for Saguinlao, an alleged member of the New People’s Army’s Cesar Cayon Command who is charged with illegal possession of firearm and murder.
Tagarda said the escapees bore a hole through their cell’s ceiling and cut the iron sheet roof. The prison facility compound, designed to accommodate 200 inmates, currently houses 318 detainees.
City councilor Ian Mark Nacaya, in a phone interview Thursday, said he gave a special report on the provincial jail break at the city council’s session on Tuesday.
For the second time, the city council passed a resolution requesting the provincial government to relocate its detention facility. The first resolution was passed 10 years ago, during the incumbency of Michelle Tagarda-Spiers as vice mayor.
“I authored a council resolution requesting Misamis Oriental governor Oscar Moreno to transfer the provincial jail outside of the city,” Nacaya, who chairs the committee on police, fire and public safety, said.
He pointed out that the location of the provincial jail is practically at the center of the city and dangerously near residential areas which could be used as “hiding places if the inmates escape from jail.
