By Argyll Cyrus B. Geducos
The National Food Authority Council yesterday vowed to file economic sabotage charges against immoral hoarders, NFA Council chairperson and Cabinet Secretary Jun Evasco said, as he announced that the standby authority to import 250,000 metric tons of rice has been approved.
“Can you sleep at night knowing when a lot of people don’t have anything to buy rice, and yet you’re hoarding so much? Economic sabotage ‘yan. They will have to be prosecuted,” Evasco said.
“I think the NFA should be very proactive in monitoring first warehouses managed and ran by private traders. Private traders will always go for high price at the expense of buying public,” he added.
