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Lacson wants criminal charges filed vs Agri officials over faulty farming equipment

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Katrina Domingo, ABS-CBN News

<p>MANILA—Senator Panfilo Lacson on Wednesday urged Agriculture Sec. William Dar to file criminal charges against the department&#x27;s procurement officials who bought faulty equipment for farmer beneficiaries of the government&#x27;s mechanization program.</p><p>The Philippine Center for Postharvest Development and Mechanization (Philmech) is set to receive some P30 billion from 2019 to 2024 to <a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/business/06/19/19/from-plows-to-tractors-rice-farms-to-be-mechanized-under-tariffs-law">procure and distribute</a> tractors, transplanters, harvesters, threshers, mechanical dryers and other machinery to farmers in 1,200 major rice-producing municipalities in the Philippines.</p><p>But several farmers in Eastern Visayas received faulty equipment from the government, according to a &quot;Failon Ngayon&quot; special report.</p><figure class="op-interactive"><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/KTiHy3DlFnQ?enablejsapi=1"></iframe></figure><div class="iwantbar">Watch more in <a href="//www.iwantv.com.ph/">iWantv</a> or <a href="//tfc.tv/">TFC.tv</a></div><p>&quot;That should be looked into and proper criminal charges should be filed against the supplier, contractor as well as &#x27;yung employees nila,&quot; Lacson said.</p><p>&quot;Obviously may nakinabang dito . . . To prevent repetition of that anomaly we should show these people the secretary means business, by going after them.&quot;</p><p>Though the substandard equipment were found in farms in Eastern Visayas, the Agriculture chief should expand investigations nationwide, the senator said.</p><p>&quot;Warning din &#x27;yun sa pag-implement nu&#x27;ng Rice Competitiveness Enhancement Fund, na tingnan nila mabuti &#x27;yung procurement at &#x27;yung idi-distribute na equipment kung tama ba,&quot; he said.</p><p>&quot;This is plain and simple criminal act.&quot;</p>

<p>Sec. Dar was urged to file criminal charges against the procurement officials who bought faulty equipment for farmer beneficiaries of the government's mechanization program.</p>

Sec. Dar was urged to file criminal charges against the procurement officials who bought faulty equipment for farmer beneficiaries of the government's mechanization program.

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Lacson wants criminal charges filed vs Agri officials over faulty farming equipment

Katrina Domingo,

ABS-CBN News

Published Nov 14, 2019 12:04 AM PHT

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Panfilo Lacson

William Dar

Department of Agriculture

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