President Duterte urged all the public employees to live with frugality saying his administration will conduct regular lifestyle checks, particularly in the graft-ridden offices like the Bureau of Customs and Bureau of Internal Revenue.
”We are used to buying cars for everybody in the family. Well, I’m sorry. Do not do that because I will make sure the lifestyle checks would be all year-round. And I would know from your garage, titingnan ko kung ilan ang kotse mo,” he warned.
The president also said that the the decades of corruption in the government has to stop.
”You who live with extra frills. Your salary is just per diem because you have other earnings. Well, this time, we have to learn how to live frugally and tone down,” Duterte said in his speech during the 69th Philippine Air Force (PAF) anniversary celebration in Clark, Pampanga.
”We are used to buying cars for everybody in the family. Well, I’m sorry. Do not do that because I will make sure the lifestyle checks would be all year-round. And I would know from your garage, titingnan ko kung ilan ang kotse mo,” he warned.
The president also said that the the decades of corruption in the government has to stop.
”You who live with extra frills. Your salary is just per diem because you have other earnings. Well, this time, we have to learn how to live frugally and tone down,” Duterte said in his speech during the 69th Philippine Air Force (PAF) anniversary celebration in Clark, Pampanga.
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He also directed BOC Commissioner Nicanor Faeldon and BIR Commissioner Billy Dulay to clear their respective offices from fixers.
”All the fixers, stop! I hope Faeldon would do this thing. Stop corruption in Customs, and Billy Dulay, I know him. He’s very good, honest. I hope he can deliver. I don’t mind that it will be a lesser income for us. I’m prepared for that,” he said.
The Duterte administration is very determined to end corruption in the government as well as drugs and criminality.
"The drive against crime, criminality, and drugs will continue,” the President said.
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