Go’s special privileges illegal – Palace

alaca ang warned yesterday that the special privileges reportedly accorded to convicted killer Rolito Go by officials of the ew ilibid Prison P in untinlupa City violate the law.

he Palace said the government is determined to keep Go in ail.

he authorities have to do their ob. Providing special treatment to Go, an inmate, is against the law,” Presidential Communications Operations Office Secretary Herminio Coloma r. told Palace reporters in a briefing.

he other day, the family of road rage victim ldon aguan, whom Go shot dead over a traffic spat in 1991, asked President uino to order an investigation on reports that the convict has been seen going in and out” of the P for the past four months.

he aguan family said they were informed by Go’s fellow inmates that he is again en oying special privileges, including going home to ue on City every time he needs to go on hospital visit for chemotherapy.

ast year Go, a big-time government contractor, claimed he had colon cancer following checkups for recurring stomach pain and constipation.

he aguans learned that Go is allegedly sometimes escorted by a ail guard to a hospital in ue on City before proceeding to his residence for lunch. He reportedly leaves the house late in the afternoon.

He had been doing this for the past few months,” the aguans said in a statement.

hen 43 years old, Go’s car made a counter-flow on a one-way portion of Wilson street in Greenhills in San uan, nearly bumping aguan’s vehicle. Go got out of his car and shot aguan, then a 25-year-old engineering student of De a Salle.

In 1993, Go was sentenced to life imprisonment by the Pasig court, but he bolted the Ri al Provincial ail three days before his conviction. He was arrested in 1996 at a pig farm in Pampanga.

In 2009, the convict was moved out of the ma imum security area of the P, prompting an outcry from the aguan family. t the minimum security area, prisoners are allowed to move around without escorts.

he aguans alleged that despite Go’s imprisonment at the P, his business activities from money lending to mining remain operational to this date.

side from visiting his doctors and the office of his lending business in Soldiers’ Hills in untinlupa, Go reportedly goes out of prison to check on his mining company’s operations.

In ugust last year, Go was again discovered missing from the P. He claimed he and his nurse-nephew were kidnapped and brought to atangas, but were released hours later.