Kaban ni D_BystandeR: HASTA PAGKAON SA GIYOLANDA, GUSTONG PABAYRAN SA MGA BUAYA SA ADWANA???
This is no longer news when donations
from other countries for typhoon Yolanda victims are found rotting in
government warehouses due to the government's failure to observe and implement
the necessary procedure how to establish a system to streamline their actions
in order to enlist the full backing of related government agencies concerned to
coordinate with the donations received from foreign countries.
Just imagine the Bureau of Customs
withholding foreign donations in different containers stocked in their
warehouses (and some of them were perishable goods that were believed already expired
last February) and subjecting them to regular fees and demurrage charges, where
earlier they were supposed to be exempted from any charges at the height of the
typhoon considering that they were donations and not commercial in nature. Take
the case of 6,400 tons of rice donated by the Algerian government to Yolanda
victims in which the ceremonial turnover was held last January 5 or two months after
the typhoon struck in the Visayas.
And the Bureau of Customs has the gall
to collect the corresponding fees when they know fully well that these are
donations from foreign countries. BOC Port of Cebu District Collector Roberto Almadin
was reported not answering repeated calls from Sun Star Cebu when calls were
made to let him explain his side of the controversy. P-Noy has to better use
his "big stick" to discipline and punish those "morons" in the
government who do not know how to use their "coconut shell!"
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