Philippines 'loses' security screening equipment
- BTN News
- Thursday, 23 June 2016
About PHP67 million of security screening equipment procured by the Philippines Office for Transportation Security (OTS) for the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (Naia) and other airports around the country seems to have disappeared.
The OTS - a Department of Transportation and Communications-attached agency - bought eight full-body scanners for PHP48 million and eight electromagnetic analyzers (EMA) or bottled liquid scanners for PHP19.2 million from Singapore.
The state-of-the-art equipment was purchased to beef up security at the Naia terminals and the Mactan-Cebu and Davao international airports but none of the screening machines was installed.
