Much has been said about the controversial Good Conduct Time Allowance or GCTA Law and the Senate has done its share in investigating the execution of the law but up to this day, there is no certainty yet as to who will be made to pay for the abuses and excesses that resulted in freeing those convicted felons of the heinous crimes.

While almost immediately almost everybody called for the resignation of Bureau of Corrections (BuCor) Administrator Nicanor Faeldon, President Rodrigo Duterte simply ordered his termination from service but glorified him afterwards by saying that Faeldon has still his trust.

President Duterte spared Faeldon from the P6.4 billion mess at the Bureau of Customs and reappointed him to the BuCor. After a while, he is again at the center of the controversy this time for releasing close to 2000 big-time drug lords and crime lords in the guise of a law that was signed by former President Noynoy Aquino.

Aside from the impossible good conduct of the said prisoners, the investigation has unmasked the modus of selling GTCA from several thousands to millions of pesos.

As if the President has cast a spell on the members of the senate with the announcement of Duterte’s firing of Faeldon, the investigation is deemed to have lost traction. 

Who will now be made accountable? Will the Senate go beyond the skin of the matter and look into who tasked Faeldon to sign the release of those big-time crime personalities? Or will the senators even have the guts to dwell into the question?

Another sad question though, who will now become the designated scapegoat of this issue?

Meantime, several hundreds have been released before the time of Faeldon. What is the certainty of their GCTA? Or how much was it?