MSOpinion Smuggling, corruption: Will they ever end? Senate probe in ‘aid of legislation;? My gulay, they are becoming a comedy of errors
One of the most applauded government concerns, especially as secretary of agriculture of President Marcos Jr., in his second SONA was his promise to end smuggling of agricultural products.
In the case of smugglers of agricultural products, people in the know claim people behind the smuggling operate like a Mafia-like cartel, that from the start of operations when they load smuggled-to-be products until they unload them in designated ports like Subic, Batangas, Cebu, Cagayan de Oro, etc.
Like in smuggling, a form of corruption involving Customs, the penalty should take the form for economic sabotage.There should be a law that makes smuggling of agri-products, hoarding and manipulation of prices a form of economic sabotage. Recall that Duterte had a pivot in foreign relations with both China and Russia in the name of an independent foreign policy since, by law, only the President has the power as the sole spokesman on foreign policies.
And no less than 15 of them continue to be in office, while only three high-ranking PNP officers are no longer in office. BBM, I am sure, knows full well that the PNP needs a total cleansing if the people’s trust in the police must be restored.
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