CEBU CITY–President-elect Rodrigo Duterte has plans to put-up a hotline where the public can directly report to him corrupt practices of government employees and officials.
Government employees, who know about their bosses’ involvement in corruption, can also report them.
During his 42-minute speech at the thanksgiving celebration on the Sugbo Grounds at the South Road Properties here, Duterte said 12 phone numbers can be used to access him 24 hours and will be manned by persons who will take note of their calls and complaints.
He also warned said people in the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) and the Bureau of Customs (BOC) to stop their corrupt practices.
“You better stop it or I will humiliate you,” he told a crowd of close to 10,000.
Duterte stressed he was not “salbahis (mean)” but he said he would be forced to be so if people would not listen to him.
Duterte said this would also be reflected in his drive against criminality and drugs.
He reminded the the bishops that not everything could be solved by praying.
Duterte arrived at past 10 p.m. after attending a wedding at Shangri-La’s Mactan Resort and Spa in Lapu-Lapu City.
He didn’t immediately went up the stage.
It was already past 11 p.m. when he went up on stage wearing a dark blue polo shirt and thanked Cebuanos at the thanksgiving celebration for giving him a “makabungog (resounding) win.
He left the stage at 11:45 p.m. and boarded his vehicle parked at the back of the stage.
Their convoy left at almost midnight.
it was not immediately known if he spent the night in Cebu or went back to Davao City since he used a private plane in coming here.
Under his administration, Duterte said he wants the long lines at the BIR, the Land Transportation Office (LTO), and the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) to stop.
He said that applicants for licenses or passports should be advised to return to a specific date so they didn’t have to line.
The same thing should happen when asking for police clearance or processing death benefits and pension of widows of policemen and soldiers.
He said the widows should not be made to go to the office in Manila to process these.
Instead, the main office in Manila should be the one to process it and send it to the regional office where a personnel is assigned so the widows may no longer have to travel that far.
“These are the small things that I want to correct,” he said.
Duterte said the country’s hope are investments in order to generate jobs for Filipinos.
But before investments could come, he said he must make the country peaceful by controlling the source of criminality which is drugs.
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