Government officials who regulate the mining industry should undergo a lifestyle check, a lawmaker said Saturday.

Surigao del Norte Rep. Robert Ace Barbers made the proposal in light of President Rodrigo Duterte’s statement that mining has become a sunset industry which he is determined to bring down because it only favors the oligarchs.

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