Zubiri wants more personnel for Anti-Red Tape Authority

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Senate Majority Leader Juan Miguel Zubiri noted that the Anti-Red Tape Authority has only less than 200 personnel and four lawyers. | CGonzalesINQ

“We cannot just ask these people to go to war kung ang ibibigay mo sa kanila ay paltik, kasi talagang suicide ang mission [if you would just give them paltik–a low-caliber gun–because that would be a suicide mission]. We have to also strengthen the watchdog and to make sure that they have the proper ammunition to fight this corruption,” he added.

The senator also aired frustration on why RA 11032, ARTA’s enabling law which he sponsored and authored in the Senate, “has not been very fruitful” since its passage in 2018. He noted, however, that the implementing rules and regulations for the law were not immediately released. “The question is what happened along the way? I can only surmise that the law is at the very least not being implemented properly, or our public servants in the bureaucracy has become calloused to the plight of the public and insist on doing things the old, slow, and bureaucratic ways, or are not afraid of the penalties that may befall them under RA 11032, or maybe a combination of all these things,” he said.

Zubiri added that there could also be a communication problem with the Filipinos on informing them that there is such a law meant to protect them against delays in issuance of permits and licenses and against corruption in securing these documents.“You have to explain to the President the powers already included in the law, that is of course violations of the law. And maybe you can explain to him what you have done in the meantime so that this law could be properly implemented,” said Zubiri.

 

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