Manila, March 20 -- The country's defense chief vowed to further streamline and rid the procurement process of corruption.
"The package here is that we will get the best equipment, the process is transparent and fair for everyone and at the end of the day, everybody should be happy. With this forum, we may able to have a seamless, trouble-free procurement process. Let's work together, we assure the proponents that we will make the procurement process to be fair and we will see to it that corruption to be eliminated, practices of the past will not bother us again because we will have a more credible defense especially through the PN," Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana said in his speech at the Philippine Navy Procurement Forum on Tuesday....