Duterte Orders Military Takeover of Customs After Meth Smuggling
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Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte will replace all officials at the country’s Bureau of Customs with military officers after illegal drugs worth billions of pesos allegedly slipped through the agency.
“It will be a takeover of the Armed Forces in the matter of operating in the meantime while we are sorting out how to effectively meet the challenges of corruption in this country,” Duterte said Sunday night in speech at the birthday celebration of his former Foreign Affairs Secretary Alan Peter Cayetano.