A group advocating good governance has slammed officials of the  Philippine Ports Authority (PPA) for their “disturbing silence” on reports of alleged rice smuggling at the Harbour Centre Port Terminal Inc. (HCPTI).

“Why are they allowing incidents of rice smuggling to happen right under their noses? The case of 3,000 missing bags of rice from Vietnam should have alarmed them. It’s all over the media,” Mario Alegre, national convenor of Alliance for Good Philippine Government, said over the weekend.

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