It took a long time coming, but the Ombudsman’s six-month preventive suspension of 33 former and present officials from the Department of Health (DOH) and the Procurement Service of the Department of Budget and Management (PS-DBM) linked to the anomalous purchase of pandemic supplies is an encouraging indication that dubious government transactions, even from a previous administration, are still subject to rigorous scrutiny with corresponding accountability exacted from those who may have benefitted from them. “After
After several weeks of public hearing, the Senate Blue ribbon committee established the direct complicity of corrupt officers of the Bureau of Immigration in human trafficking and “VIP escort services” of international fugitives in and out of the country. At the same time, it plunged the Bureau into the public’s lowest esteem. And the employees, now laughingstock of the “yearbook meme”, have become highly demoralized. These all happened under the watch of long time BI employee now commissioner Norman Garcera Tansingco who worked as chief of staff of former commissioner Marcelino Libanan from 2007 to 2017. It must be frustrating for
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