"'Yang mga Customs... (With regard to the Customs officials), I have to kick them out. Sixty-four of them will be terminated next week. I-I, and 100 is coming. Then I will have [to] clean the [bureau]," the President said.
A week earlier, Duterte placed 64 Customs officials and employees under floating status due to their alleged corrupt activities.
The President also ordered the filing of administrative cases against the erring BOC workers before the Office of the Ombudsman.
Despite the controversies hounding the Customs bureau, Duterte remained confident that Customs Commissioner Rey Leonardo "Jagger" Guerrero, a former military chief, can help him rid the agency of corruption.
"Kasi sabi nila hindi daw talaga malinis-linis ang Customs so I placed si Jagger, yung dumaang Chief-of-Staff [ng Armed Forces of the Philippines]. He was assigned in Davao as the task force commander ng Davao so I know him," he said.
