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African swine fever (ASF)-related pig culling in Carcar City prompted Cebu Governor Gwendolyn Garcia to formally file complaints against five Department of Agriculture (DA) and Bureau of Animal Industry (BAI) employees.

Five officials, including BAI Director Dr. Paul Limson, BAI deputy program coordinator Dr. Samuel Joseph Castro, BAI coordinator on ASF Dr. Joshua Cruz, BAI regional veterinary quarantine station head Dr. Miriam Lopez Vito, and DA 7 (Central Visayas) ASF coordinator Dr. Daniel Ventura, are accused of violating the Anti-Graft and Corrupt Practices Act, the Local Government Code, and other laws, according to a seven-page complaint filed with the Office of the

The incident allegedly started because of the officials’ “statement regarding the ASF epidemic in the province of Cebu” and their imposition of zone mapping and culling measures within a 500-meter radius without informing or working with the provincial government.

The governor added that “they were also not justly compensated prior to seizing of their property” and that “the indiscriminate culling of the pigs is in breach of the right to due process of the hog owners.”

Garcia claimed that the failure of the officials to carry out their duties with due diligence “has greatly affected the PHP11 billion hog industry of the province of Cebu and its economy” and had the effect of reducing the hog population, which may lead to the importation of hogs and pork from other nations.

She claimed that the officials had violated the agency’s mandate by “haphazardly implementing a policy without consideration nor sensible course of action,” and she wanted the anti-graft body to hold them administratively accountable.

Also, the agency disregarded her directives regarding culling and color-coded zone mapping.

“Neither the actual findings nor the justification for the epidemic declaration was provided. She cited the detrimental impact of indiscriminate culling on hog raisers’ livelihood, saying “In fact, it was even established that the positive samples from Carcar City were from a slaughterhouse and not (the) genuine backyard (piggeries).

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