Resigned Office for Transportation Security chief Mao Ranada Aplasca condemned Wednesday the cultural rot inside the country's airport security teams, which allowed erring screeners to stay in their jobs before he started an internal cleansing process.
Aplasca, who resigned after Speaker Martin Romualdez threatened to block the approval of the budget of the OTS and the Department of Transportation if he does not leave his post, said the problem with airport security is "more than systemic, it is cultural."
"'Yung laglag bala yun ang first marching order sa akin noong dating Pangulong Duterte at doon ko po naramdaman 'yung kanyang 100 percent na support kaya in a short period of less than one month we were able to solve the issue of laglag bala," he said. "Medyo masama lang ang loob ko kasi di ko maintindihan dahil ginawa ko namin lahat ng aming kailangang gawin sa loob ng Office for Transportation Security para magpatupad ng isang malawakang internal cleansing program at nakikita ko na personally na malapit na malapit na maayos at ma-identify lahat ng involved at ito, isa-isa na silang natatanggal sa serbisyo," he said.
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