IT is beyond me why this government has yet to act decisively on the Laglag Bala / Tanim Bala [Drop Bullet/Plant Bullet] extortion racket at our international airports.

Don’t get me wrong. I get it that there are many other more important concerns, with the APEC being held here and all, with the survivors of Haiyan still waiting for their homes two years since the storm, with the growing number of impoverished, with so many unable to afford quality education, with so many unemployed and underemployed, with the Lumad demanding justice for their dead and demanding that they get back their communities and their land.