PRESIDENT Rodrigo Duterte has ordered that all permits be signed within 30 days and a one-stop government center be put up where all citizens can get their documents processed.
He said there should be no room for mediocrity in his administration.
Meanwhile, Customs Commissioner Nicanor Faeldon said he will reduce the number of permits that traders must secure from the government so that shipments could be released within five hours.
Duterte said government workers were being paid to do their work, and that corruption must stop in his administration.
“Why is this government oppressing its own people?” Duterte said in a speech before members of the San Beda Law Alumni Association that hosted a testimonial dinner reception for him on Thursday.
He said he would be issuing a circular limiting the number of signatures needed for a business permit to speed up all government transactions.
Malacañang on Tuesday said Duterte had ordered all Cabinet secretaries to streamline all government transactions through an “appointment system” to cut red tape.
“As directed by the President, all agencies are to stop red tape and to stop people from queuing up,” Presidential Spokesman Ernesto Abella told reporters.
Duterte said all government agencies should provide a system to ease the pain of the public, as he felt compassion for the people who come from afar and sleep on the pavement while waiting for their documents.
Budget Secretary Benjamin Diokno said inept government officials and workers will not be tolerated.
“This President will not tolerate incompetence. Do not expect to sit in your portfolio if you don’t perform,” Diokno told reporters on Thursday.
