Convicted murderer Rolito Go is missing from the minimum security compound of the New Bilibid Prison.



Justice Secretary Leila De Lima told reporters that she had received initial information that Go was reported missing during a headcount of prisoners at the compound.



Also missing is Clarence Yu, his niece who had been attending to him as his nurse. She said, however, that she had yet to confer with Bureau of Corrections director Gaudencio Pangilinan on Go's disappearance.



De Lima has ordered the National Bureau of Investigation to conduct an investigation into reports that Go and his niece may have been kidnapped.



Go, convicted for killing engineering student Eldon Maguan due to a traffic altercation in 1991, has been a living-out prisoner at the NBP and has been helping out at the parish inside the compound. He has been getting treatment for cancer and has been allowed to leave the prison under escort. But prior his sentence, Go escaped from prison in 1993.



Yahoo! Southeast Asia has been trying to get in touch with NBP chief penal superintendent Richard Schwarzkopf for comment but is unavailable as of this posting.





















