Saying the present system against smuggling does not work, President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. pushed for a major system-wide reform to stop it. | JEMendozaINQ
“To be brutally frank about it, we have a system but they are not working. The smuggling here in this country is absolutely rampant. So it does not matter to me how many systems we have in place, they do not work,” Marcos told Private Sector Advisory Council members in Malacañang.“So we really have to find something else. We cannot continue to depend on these systems which have already proven themselves to be quite ineffective,” the President also pointed out.
The Chief Executive added that concerned agencies against smuggling should be more innovative, stressing that the government will have to delineate functions or establish new agencies if needed.
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