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BRIBES * Philippines - Traders slam LTO extortion in weigh bridge in Butuan
San Francisco,Agusan del Sur,Philippines -Inquirer Mindanao, by Chris V. Panganiban/ The Philippines Daily Inquirer -21 July 2008: -- The weigh bridge along the national highway in Butuan City, a government facility intended to check overloaded cargo trucks, has allegedly became the favorite place of Land Transportation Office (LTO) personnel involved in extortion activities... Irate log traders and tree farmers here recently told Agusan del Sur Gov. Ma. Valentina Plaza that because of the extortion activities allegedly by LTO personnel, they renamed the weigh bridge “witik (bribe) bridge"... Ricardo Peyrera, who spoke in behalf of the tree farmers’ group, said the LTO men ask P300 per truck before the cargoes are allowed to pass... A record from the weigh bridge in Tabon-tabon showed that at least 30 trucks loaded with falcatta pass through it every day..
Plaza said she has formed a task force to look into these complaints and that an investigation was underway... “There are no sacred cows in my administration,” Plaza said in a statement sent to the Inquirer on Thursday... She said illegal checkpoints would also be torn down to prevent corrupt personnel from preying on hapless farmers and traders...
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