Speaker, officials meet to quash onion cartel

By Maricel V. Cruz

SPEAKER Ferdinand

Martin G. Ro-

mualdez met with key lawmakers and officials of the Bureau of Plant Industry (BPI) on Monday afternoon to finalize their action plan and reforms meant to smash the cartel responsible for manipulating the supply and price of onions in the country.

At the same time, Romualdez warned that apart from the cartel and their cohorts, all other profiteers—including local traders and other players in the onion industry—who will continue to take advantage of the consumers will face certain prosecution.

“Those who are part of the solution we will help; those who are part of the problem, we will not tolerate. We will go after them and make the proper recommendation for prosecution,” Romualdez said.