Customs reshuffles key personnel anew
Published Apr 6, 2018 08:40 am
By Betheena Kae Unite
Bureau of Customs Commissioner Isidro Lapeña yesterday announced that 66 customs personnel, including district collectors, were reshuffled or reassigned to other units.
Customs commissioner Isidro Lapeña (Czar Dancel / MANILA BULLETIN)
Lawyer Vener Baquiran has been replaced as the district collector of the Port of Manila (POM) by Atty. Erastus Sandino Austria, former district collector of the Port of Davao.
Baquiran, on the other hand, has been transferred to the Compliance Monitoring Unit (CMU).
Export Coordination Division chief lawyer Romalino Valdez of the Assessment and Operations Coordinating Group will take over Austria’s post in Davao.
Lawyer Balmyrson Valdez, the erstwhile district collector of Manila International Container Port (MICP), is now the head the Legal Service of the Revenue Collection Monitoring Group (RCMG).
Valdez will be replaced by District Collector Maritess Martin.
Lawyer Yasser Ismail Abbas is now the director of Financial Service of RCMG while Wivina Pumatong, of thesub-port of Mactan, was named district collector of the Port of Iloilo.
“I have given Austria and Martin bigger responsibilities to head the major ports since they are consistently hitting their targets with huge surpluses since I assumed as commissioner,” Lapeña said.
The two major ports, POM and MICP, collected only P5.776 billion and P12.625 billion, which is 14.9 percent and 9.28 percent lower than the target, respectively.
Since assuming post as Customs Commissioner, more than 1,000 personnel have been reshuffled.
The commissioner also clarified that the reshuffle of personnel, including the district collector of POM, was solely due to the failure to hit the collection target in March, “not because of the illegal release of the 105 containers of tiles.”
“It was more of not hitting the target. This movement is about hitting the target. I have to be consistent with that policy because I started it at the month of January and February and now, I have to be consistent. The rule has to be applied to all,” Lapeña said.
Customs commissioner Isidro Lapeña (Czar Dancel / MANILA BULLETIN)
Lawyer Vener Baquiran has been replaced as the district collector of the Port of Manila (POM) by Atty. Erastus Sandino Austria, former district collector of the Port of Davao.
Baquiran, on the other hand, has been transferred to the Compliance Monitoring Unit (CMU).
Export Coordination Division chief lawyer Romalino Valdez of the Assessment and Operations Coordinating Group will take over Austria’s post in Davao.
Lawyer Balmyrson Valdez, the erstwhile district collector of Manila International Container Port (MICP), is now the head the Legal Service of the Revenue Collection Monitoring Group (RCMG).
Valdez will be replaced by District Collector Maritess Martin.
Lawyer Yasser Ismail Abbas is now the director of Financial Service of RCMG while Wivina Pumatong, of thesub-port of Mactan, was named district collector of the Port of Iloilo.
“I have given Austria and Martin bigger responsibilities to head the major ports since they are consistently hitting their targets with huge surpluses since I assumed as commissioner,” Lapeña said.
The two major ports, POM and MICP, collected only P5.776 billion and P12.625 billion, which is 14.9 percent and 9.28 percent lower than the target, respectively.
Since assuming post as Customs Commissioner, more than 1,000 personnel have been reshuffled.
The commissioner also clarified that the reshuffle of personnel, including the district collector of POM, was solely due to the failure to hit the collection target in March, “not because of the illegal release of the 105 containers of tiles.”
“It was more of not hitting the target. This movement is about hitting the target. I have to be consistent with that policy because I started it at the month of January and February and now, I have to be consistent. The rule has to be applied to all,” Lapeña said.