Following the discovery of warehouses hoarding onions and garlic, the speaker of the House of Representatives on Wednesday said the government’s “intensified and relentless campaign” against agricultural smuggling will continue.
Speaker Ferdinand Martin G. Romualdez commended law enforcement agencies for heeding his call to raid warehouses suspected of hoarding onions and garlic.
“We talked to our law enforcement agencies to raid warehouses suspected of hoarding onions and garlic. This [hoarding] is one of the causes of inflation,” Romualdez said after an inter-agency task force led by the Bureau of Customs immediately delivered results in the fight against hoarding of onions and garlic.
He said he will continue to call for the crackdown against smugglers to protect Filipino consumers as well as farmers.
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