GOVERNOR Emmylou Taliño-Mendoza on Wednesday ordered a probe on Monday’s hostage-taking incident in North Cotabato provincial penitentiary, expressing disgust over an alleged cover-up of the incident by facility’s officials.

Leaders of 834 inmates, complaining of lack of food supply and alleged “sexual advances” on female visitors by male jail guards, hogtied SJO3 Samuel Sunico on Monday and freed him after four hours only after journalists and emissaries of the governor arrived to listen to their grievances.

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