Barely a month old, the House of Representatives quad committee has hit the ground running, assembling witnesses and gathering testimonies that cast new light into the brutal drug war of the past administration. And its labors appear to be bearing fruit. Although criticized by some as a political witch hunt, the panel has arguably accomplished in weeks what law enforcers and prosecutors failed to do in six years under the shadow of former president Rodrigo Duterte at
The recent proposal to amend the SIM Registration Act to introduce, among others, a limit on the number of SIMs that an individual can register is a deeply flawed approach to addressing the scourge of fraud and scams in the country. This proposal, while perhaps well-intentioned, misses the mark by focusing on telecommunications companies (telcos) as if they were the root of the problem. In reality, the true enemies are the fraudsters and scammers who continue to exploit any system, no matter how many restrictions are put in place. Fraud is not a simple issue that can be resolved by imposing arbitrary
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