Solon blasts NAIA employees for ‘tanim-bala’
LINGAYEN—Second District Representative Leopoldo Bataoil urged the employees of the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) to report co-workers whom they know are involved in the ‘tanim-bala’ scam.
The congressman said the modus operandi has put the entire nation in bad light inducing mass hysteria among foreign and local travelers.
In his privilege speech on the NAIA extortion scam, delivered during their November 3 session, Mr. Bataoil urged the airport employees to contact his office and personally inform him of the activities of their unscrupulous colleagues.
Mr. Bataoil enumerated some of the victims of the scam including a 21-year old American missionary, a balikbayan, a 19-year old girl who is a member of a choir to represent the country in an international tilt, a 56-year old, and a senior citizen.
“As a former police general, I am angered by these issues because the profiles of those arrested are clearly far from the profiles of criminals and syndicate members,” he said.
Republic Act 10591 or the Comprehensive Firearms and Ammunition Regulation Act provides that possession of bullets of even parts of firearms can result in a six to eight year imprisonment.
Mr. Bataoil then noted that the airport management shall make sure all its employees go through metal detectors when going to work and proposed for an orientation among airport personnel on how to become model Filipinos as “our country’s front-liners to foreigners, investors, and tourists.”
“But most of all, we should now penalize to the fullest extent of the law those people who have already exploited the victims of the ‘laglag-bala’ scam and we should fire the incompetent leaders who allowed all of these scams to happen under their watch,” he said. (Johanne Macob)
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