Agriculture Secretary Emmanuel Piñol over the weekend said he has fired a quarantine officer of the Bureau of Plant Industry in Davao City over alleged extortion complaints from small banana exporters.

Piñol said that BPI quarantine officer as Andres Alemania, along with his people, has demanded “fees” for every container van passing through Sasa Port. The BPI is an agency under the Department of Agriculture (DA).

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