Duterte wants contract of Miascor terminated for luggage theft incident
Clark International Airport in Pampanga
(File photo by TONETTE OREJAS / Inquirer Central Luzon)
President Rodrigo Duterte has ordered airport and transport officials to terminate the contract of aviation service provider Miascor following the luggage theft incident at the Clark International Airport in Pampanga.
“Itong nangyari kahapon (what happened yesterday), I would demand that there will be justice instantly. Kung sino ‘yung provider, (whoever is the provider) service provider diyan, you terminate the contract and look for another one,” Duterte said in a meeting with airport officials and other government heads in Malacañang on Thursday.
The President said he does not want a repeat of the theft incident involving the pilferage of the luggage of overseas Filipino worker (OFW) Jovinal dela Cruz.
“And so for the other airports in the country, I do not want it repeated ever again,” he said.
Dela Cruz uploaded a video on Facebook on Wednesday where he expressed his dismay after he discovered his luggage and boxes were pilfered.
Six employees of Miascor firm assigned at the Clark International Airport were terminated and are facing administrative charges due to the incident.
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Clark International Airport Corp. Acting President Alexander Cauguiran told Duterte that charges have been filed against the suspects in the luggage theft incident.
Cauguiran had earlier said that Miascor has compensated Dela Cruz for the lost items in his luggage amounting to P84,000.
Duterte has apologized to the victim and ordered airport officials to also make a public.
“So I would also demand that the airport authorities should call the complainant and make amends, maybe in public to apologize for the sloppy job that we are doing. Matagal na kasi ito eh (this has been long enough),” he said.
“So I deeply apologize. We will pay whatever your losses,” he added. /jpv
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