MANILA, Philippines - Fort Sto. Domingo in Sta. Rosa, Laguna is not yet ready for alleged pork barrel scam mastermind Janet Lim Napoles, Interior and Local Government Secretary Mar Roxas said Saturday afternoon.
"There will be no movement today," Roxas said at a press conference after he and Philippine National Police (PNP) chief Director-General Alan Purisima inspected the detention room where Napoles will be placed.
Roxas said that they need to enhance the security features of the 25-square-meter detention room with additional iron bars, CCTV cameras, improvement of the door and its hinges and the ceiling.
The secretary said that they are still studying the possibility of having the room's CCTV feed live streamed through the internet, just to make sure that the high-profile detainee is secured 24/7.
Meanwhile, Roxas said that the room doesn't have an air-conditioning unit. He said that Napoles would have to bring her own refrigerator inside the room for her medicines and no other appliance and cellular phones will not be allowed.
Makati City Regional Trial Court Branch 150 Judge Elmo Alameda on Friday afternoon ordered Napoles transferred from the Makati City Jail (MCJ) to Fort Sto. Domingo, the camp of the PNP's elite Special Action Force.
MCJ acting warden Chief Inspector Fermin Enriquez told the court that he could not guarantee the safety of the beleaguered businesswoman.
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Napoles surrendered to President Benigno Aquino III on Wednesday night and was immediately brought to the PNP headquarters in Camp Crame, Quezon City.
From Camp Crame, she wa transferred to the MCJ on Thursday night, where she was placed in a temporary detention room away from the detention cells of the hundreds of inmates.