DAVAO CITY—Special Assistant to the President Christopher Lawrence Go on Saturday admonished on Saturday that someone had to eat the bullet, literally. That is, if the recent case of an airline passenger complaining about a bullet in her luggage would turn out intentionally inserted.
Malacañang would still have to wait for the result of the investigation conducted by the Manila International Airport Authority, the Office for Transportation Security and the Department of Transportation.
Their probe would be submitted anytime on Sunday, Go said, as he clarified that the investigation would also look into the likelihood that it was the luggage owner who brought it along the luggage.
“The President has warned that someone would have to eat the bullet if it turns out the item was inserted into the luggage,” Go said.
Previous incidents indicated subsequent extortion by airport personnel for the victims but Go said the luggage owner was allowed to go home to avoid getting extorted.
He added the President has also instructed all would-be victims to complain, “make noises to attract attention so that authorities could immediately respond.”
Go said the President has assured that the tanim-bala would not be tolerated under his administration.
The warning was raised anew after the luggage of passenger Kristine Bumanglag-Moran was found with a bullet in her luggage while she was undergoing routine passenger and luggage check on Friday afternoon at Ninoy Aquino International Airport Terminal 3.
“This was a primary concern of our President, and he had promised then that if there were another incident like that, he would let [the guilty personnel] eat the bullet,” Go told reporters shortly after the President delivered his speech during the Eid’l Fitr celebration at the SMX Convention Center here.