THE Land Transportation Office (LTO) on Friday said its full digitalization program meant to ensure less human interventions in all transactions is almost complete.
LTO chief Vigor Mendoza II expressed gratitude to the Anti-Red Tape Authority for appreciating the agency’s ease of doing business efforts.
“The first step in problem-solving is to identify and acknowledge that there are problems. This is the reason why I made it a point to expedite the full digitalization efforts in the LTO and initiated moves to partner with other law enforcement agencies in weeding out fixers and their cohorts in our ranks,” Mendoza said.
The full digitalization efforts does not only focus on facilitating a fast and comfortable transaction in the LTO but also ensure lesser human interventions in all transactions, he added.
“Less human interventions mean almost zero opportunity for corruption activities. Right now, we are at 97 percent usage of the new information technology system and we are now working to address the remaining 3% which would pave the way to 100 percent full digitalization efforts,” Mendoza said.
The remaining three percent involved transactions that cannot be processed under the new system, the Land Transportation Management System or LTMS due to internet connectivity issues, especially in the provinces.
The LTO chief has initiated a strong partnership with the Philippine National Police to wage a crackdown against fixers on two fronts: those that hang around the LTO offices and those who advertise their illegal activities on social media.
Mendoza even coordinated with Meta or Facebook Philippines in taking down accounts that advertise their fixing services.