Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV said on Wednesday that the military takeover of the Bureau of Customs would not work as military personnel were not trained to deal with customs duties. Reacting to President Rodrigo Duterte’s order to temporarily put the BOC under military control, Trillanes said that the “endemic corruption” at the BOC might spread to the military as they were not meant to handle customs duties. Worse, the endemic corruption at the BOC might even contaminate the AFP,” Trillanes said in a statement. “This is a dangerous proposition that is meant to cover up Duterte’s complicity or incompetence in the P11 billion shabu controversy,” Trillanes said. The President temporarily placed the BOC under military control last Sunday due to unmitigated corruption at the agency.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer October 31, 2018 14:26 UTC