Bicol Saro Partylist Consultant Brian Raymund Yamsuan stated that President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. has outsmarted smugglers and taught them an costly lesson together with his current transfer to distribute smuggled rice shares to poor households in Zamboanga.
Yamsuan counseled the President for sending a powerful message to smugglers and hoarders that they don’t have anything to achieve from their unfair commerce practices, whereas on the identical time, extending help to poor households which have suffered essentially the most from these unlawful acts.
Because the concurrent agriculture secretary, President Marcos Jr.’s decisive transfer additionally goals to guard small Filipino farmers from unfair competitors as smuggled sacks of rice that flood the market normally pull down the costs of their produce, Yamsuan added.
“The President has given smugglers and hoarders a bitter, costly lesson the place it could harm them essentially the most—their pockets. Their seized rice shares imply their investments can by no means be recovered. Ang smuggled rice na naisaing na, hindi na kayang bawiin. Lugi ang smugglers, pero panalo naman ang magsasaka at mahihirap nating mga kababayan,” stated Yamsuan, whose partylist group represents the folks of Bicol, together with the area’s greater than 700,000 small farmers and fisherfolk.
“By his single strong-minded act, the President has helped farmers and poor households and punished people who have made life troublesome for them,” Yamsuan added.
Yamsuan was referring to President Marcos Jr.’s choice to distribute some 4,000 sacks of smuggled rice seized by the Bureau of Customs (BOC) to beneficiaries of the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) in Zamboanga Sibugay and Zamboanga del Norte on Tuesday.
The sacks of rice given away to the 4Ps beneficiaries have been a part of the 42,180 smuggled sacks of rice price P42 million that have been confiscated by the BOC-Port of Zamboanga in a warehouse in Barangay San Jose Gusu in Zamboanga Metropolis. The shares have been forfeited in favor of the federal government after the warehouse operator was given ample time, however failed, to clarify the place the rice was imported and the place he paid the tariffs and taxes for them.
Throughout his go to to the Zamboanga provinces to guide the distribution of the smuggled rice shares, the President additionally led the turnover of help price a complete of P18.56 million beneath the Philippine Rural Growth Mission Funding for Rural Enterprises and Agricultural and Fisheries Productiveness (PRDP I-REAP) of the Division of Agriculture (DA), and DA KADIWA monetary grants amounting to P4 million.
He additionally oversaw the distribution of P120 million price of help beneath the “Tulong Panghanapbuhay sa Ating Disadvantages/Displaced Staff” of the Division of Labor and Employment (DOLE); P530,000 price of DOLE livelihood help; and help certificates from the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Sources. (BFAR).
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