Drawerless desks juvenile way of solving Customs corruption
The proposal of Commissioner Lito Alvarez to install drawerless desks, in lieu of the existing ones, in all the offices of the Bureau of Customs in a desperate bid to eliminate graft and corruption in the government’s “third most corrupt” agency (after the Department of Public Works and Highways and the Bureau of Internal Revenue, this is according to the pollster Pulse Asia) is juvenile to say the least and demeaning to those few remaining upright employees who have tried their best to keep their noses clean in the midst of all the shenanigans going on around them. This immediately brings to mind the uniform of the casino dealers and cashiers of the Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corp. (Pagcor) whose main feature are pocketless trousers so that they may not be tempted to slip aside one or two or three or four P1,000-denomination chips such as the type used in high-stakes or VIP baccarat tables. Frankly, I haven’t the foggiest who broached the idea of the drawerless desks to Commissioner Alvarez, but whoever he is should be skewered because he really doesn’t know the first thing about corruption at Customs. Interviewed by reporters, Alvarez, who is being pressured by Malacañang to immediately show results, said the drawers of the desks being presently used by all Customs examiners serve as the repository of the grease money that for the longest time is SOP from the ubiquitous brokers following up the release of the shipments of their respective clients.... MORESource: The Daily Tribune URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20100801com4.html |
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