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TRANSPORTATION Secretary Vince Dizon on Monday fired three personnel of the Office for Transportation Security (OTS) involved in the alleged tanim-bala incident at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) Terminal 3 last week.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n “We are announcing the termination of all people in the OTS involved in the incident. Proper administrative charges will be filed after the investigation,” Dizon said in a press briefing Monday.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n “Being in the government does not give you the license to abuse people. The President will not tolerate this sort of behavior,” he added. <\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The three screening personnel suspected that the 69-year-old woman was carrying an amulet or bullet at the NAIA..<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n A social media post by passenger Ruth Adel, who was then bound for Vietnam for a vacation, went viral on social media over the weekend, narrating her experience with airport screening personnel last March 6 at NAIA Terminal 3.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n She said she was on her way to the boarding gate when screening personnel approached her to tell her she had a bullet in her bag.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The personnel had different statements, laughed, and even tried to hide their name tags upon learning they were being filmed.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Newly-installed OTS administrator Arthur Bisnar said he would not tolerate arrogance and abusive behavior among his personnel.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Dizon asked the chiefs of the OTS and the Manila International Airport Authority to review the procedures and protocols for screening.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Both Bisnar and Dizon pointed out the lapses among the terminated personnel who admitted they were not sure whether the bag with bullet they saw on the x-ray image belonged to Adel.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The Transportation Secretary urged the public to report such incidents immediately to the airport hotline.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" TRANSPORTATION Secretary Vince Dizon on Monday fired three personnel of the Office for Transportation Security (OTS) involved in the alleged tanim-bala incident at the Ninoy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12363,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12362"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12362"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12364,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12362\/revisions\/12364"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}