A senator over the weekend chided the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) for imposing a mere one-month suspension against the labor attaché involved in the sex-for-flight controversy, saying that the paltry sanction sends a “wrong signal” that one’s length of service in the government trumps the gravity of the offense charged.

Sen. Cynthia Villar asserted that labor attaché Adam Musa should have been sacked for his failure to investigate personnel accused of soliciting sex from distressed overseas Filipino workers (OFW) in Saudi Arabia in exchange for a flight back home.

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