‘Available rice more or less still overpriced’

Activist lawyer Argee Guevarra, who first exposed the alleged P500-million scam in a single NFA rice importation deal with Vietnam, criticized officials of the Department of Agriculture (DA) and National Food Authority (NFA), for denying any anomaly in the transaction.

Reacting to NFA Deputy Administrator Ludovico Jarina’s statement last week belying the lawyer’s accusations, Guevarra said on Tuesday that, “Jarina’s plain denial is swallowed by the public with a grain of salt amidst spiraling rice prices.”