Duterte-era rice price manipulation remains unresolved - lawmaker

The "biggest agricultural price manipulation case" involving alleged rice importation anomalies during the Duterte administration that cost Filipino consumers billions has remained unresolved, Albay Rep. Joey Salceda said yesterday.

-  JOSE RODEL CLAPANO

Speaking at the super committee's inaugural hearing on Tuesday, Salceda stressed the need for accountability, citing failures that let cartels exploit the country's food supply.

"The biggest case of price manipulation in the agricultural sector remains to be the cornering of import permits in 2016-2018," said Salceda, chair of the newly formed Murang Pagkain super committee, composed of the committees on ways and means, trade and industry, agriculture and food, social services and the special committee on food security.