The Philippine Coast Guard has delisted 36 Chinese individuals as auxiliary force members due to lack of national security clearance, PCG commandant Admiral Ronnie Gavan told a congressional hearing on Wednesday.Gavan made the disclosure in response to the question of Surigao del Norte Representative Robert Ace Barbers during the deliberation on a proposed bill on PCG reform and reorganization.“We did conduct an investigation.
Barbers then said that the PCG should continue its probe on who recruited the 36 Chinese individuals as PCG auxiliary force members and hold them liable, saying such recruitment of foreigners might have compromised the country’s national security especially amid the consistent Chinese aggression toward Philippine vessels in the West Philippine Sea.