ENHANCED TASK FORCE. Senator Christopher “Bong” Go chats with President Rodrigo Duterte in this undated photo. Go said he will recommend to the President the creation of an interagency task force that will employ a whole-of-government approach against deep-rooted, systemic corruption plaguing the whole bureaucracy. (Contributed photo)
GO EYES ENHANCED INTERAGENCY TASK FORCE VS. SYSTEMIC CORRUPTION
Senator Christopher “Bong” Go said he will recommend to President Rodrigo Duterte the creation of an interagency task force that will employ a whole-ofgovernment approach in the ongoing efforts to end deep-rooted and systemic corruption plaguing the whole bureaucracy. This came after reports of continuing prevalent corruption in numerous agencies, including the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH), Bureau of Immigration (BI), Bureau of Customs (BOC), Philippine Health
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Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) and even in the agriculture sector through reported rice smuggling, among others. “Exasperated na po si Pangulong Duterte dahil sa korapsyon sa gobyerno (President Duterte is already exasperated because of corruption in the government),” Go said in a press release issued on Sunday. Go likened the corruption to the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) pandemic that has significantly changed the normal life of the people.
“It is important to remove the ‘bad eggs’ para hindi na makasira pa sa serbisyo ng gobyerno o makahawa pa sa mga ibang kawani ng gobyerno na nais lang magsilbi sa kapwa Pilipino (so that it will not derail government services or will infect other government employees who want to serve the Filipino people),” he said. Go said the proposed task force may be modeled after the previous task force created to investigate PhilHealth. Its scope, however, should cover all government agencies and should be allowed
