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By Ramon TulfoTHIS columnist was not surprised when the Senate recommended to the Ombudsman the investigation of former National Food Authority (NFA) Administrator Lito Banayo for alleged graft while in office.
THIS columnist was not surprised when the Senate recommended to the Ombudsman the investigation of former National Food Authority (NFA) Administrator Lito Banayo for alleged graft while in office.
Customs authorities, led by Deputy Commissioner Danilo Lim, yesterday seized 5,000 bags of rice worth P9 million at the Mindanao Container Terminal (MCT) in Tagoloan, Misamis Oriental, that Lim said were smuggled in from Vietnam.
President Aquino will preside over the turnover of command in the Army’s top post Tuesday afternoon at the Army headquarters, a day after appointing the new Army chief, who led a Scout Rangers unit in several military operations against the Abu Sayyaf bandits in Mindanao.
The former chief of staff of Agriculture Secretary Proceso Alcala during the latter’s first term as Quezon representative is the new administrator of the National Food Authority.
Applicants, anyone? President Benigno Aquino III is looking for qualified officials to fill up vacancies in his administration less than a month before the start of the campaign period.
A Malacañang official, who said he was not authorized to announce the appointment, disclosed to the Philippine Daily Inquirer that Orlan Agbin Calayag would soon be named the new administrator of the National Food Authority (NFA).
The mystery deepens over the P141 million worth of rice believed to be smuggled from Vietnam and which found its way to this city’s port.
The controversy over the allegedly smuggled 94,000 bags of Vietnam rice worth P141 million continued to brew after three of the consignees of the National Food Authority denied they ordered the importation while another organization not on the list claimed ownership of part of the shipment.
The 94,000 bags of imported rice from Vietnam worth P112.8 million face possible confiscation after the National Food Authority (NFA) in Albay failed to present the necessary import permits on Wednesday to prove that the cargo was not smuggled, said the Bureau of Customs (BOC) in Bicol.
The multibillion peso importation of rice appears to have been cornered by a few businessmen who use scores of farmers’ cooperatives as dummies to get licenses from the National Food Authority (NFA), according to Sen. Francis Pangilinan.
Lashing out at “dubious farmers’ cooperatives” that have allowed themselves to be used by rice smugglers, National Food Authority (NFA) Administrator Angelito Banayo has suggested that the government regain its monopoly in rice importation.
LEGAZPI CITY—The National Food Authority (NFA) in Albay is now scrambling to secure all the needed documents that will authenticate the shipment of the P112-million Vietnamese rice impounded at the Legazpi port by the Bureau of Customs in Bicol. Legazpi customs collector lawyer Leovigildo Dayoza yesterday said he was compelled to issue a warrant [...]
A Quezon City judge on Tuesday temporarily stopped the National Food Authority (NFA) from implementing the bidding rules for rice imports that could cause four farmer cooperatives to lose more than P86 million.
