Police love to trumpet multibillion-peso drug busts. Example was last week’s P13.3-billion interdiction of shabu at a checkpoint in Batangas.
President Bongbong Marcos at once chest-thumped that it was the country’s single biggest haul ever. He likely fell for the narc’s ruse of blowing up amounts in order to get rewards and promotions.
That P34.75 billion was used over and over to justify the killing of 7,000 drug suspects. Many were fooled into believing that the Duterte drug war was winning. The committee prodded the Department of Trade and Industry, Bureau of Internal Revenue and Bureau of Customs to get their act together. There’s a “vapedemic.”
How come BOC failed to intercept the contraband at ports of entry? Why did these products reach warehouses outside Customs territory before seizure? Who’s letting in these big shipments? Congress told BIR to be stricter with vape product registration and regularly inspect manufacturing premises. As well, to assign personnel to audit factory outputs.
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