Caballo Island (bottom) and the larger Corregidor Island (top)
Now that two members, Peter Co and Herbert Colangco, of the Triad identified by President Rodrigo Duterte are inside the National Bilibid Prison, Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre II said they are preparing for the big one to stop the drug transaction inside the New Bilibid Prison (NBP).
“We are considering of about doing three things in connection with locating these inmates. We could let them remain inside the Building 14. We could transfer them to Tanay (Camp Capinpin). We could transfer them to ISAFP (Intelligence Service Armed Forces of the Philippines facility),” Secretary Aguirre said Thursday in a press conference.
The Justice Secretary added that the drug lords could also be transferred to an island prison. “But of course, in the long run, we are also contemplating of even transferring them to Caballo island or to an island in Palawan,” he said.
Caballo Island along with the larger island Corregidor, divides the entrance to the bay into two broad and deep channels, known as the North and South Channel.
“This is seriously considered, where there are no cellphone signals. You know that, and I was validated again, that without the cellphones, no transaction whatsoever will be done inside the New Bilibid Prison by these drug lords,” he added.