The Senate marked the resumption of session with the long-awaited start to its probe into the second sugar import mess in less than a year under the administration of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. | BPinlacINQ
Hontiveros raised suspicion about the issuance of SO No. 6 without the signature of President Marcos, who concurrently sits as Secretary of the Department of Agriculture and therefore, also as head of the Sugar Regulatory Administration .
“Since these are not covered by SO [No.] 6, there is no other conclusion but to say that these sugar shipments are smuggled. What other conclusion can be drawn other than that this is government-sponsored smuggling?” Hontiveros pointed out.According to the Senate guest list, Executive Secretary Lucas Bersamin and DA Senior Undersecretary Domingo Panganiban are among the witnesses or resource persons for the public hearing.
The opposition senator later pointed out that this bitter controversy is much worse than merely being a “state-sponsored formation of a cartel.”
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