NBI satellite office to open soon in Aklan

BY BOY RYAN B. ZABAL

The clearances and other services of National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) will soon be directly obtained once a satellite office will be put up in Aklan.

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Aklan Governor Florencio Miraflores said the putting up of an NBI satellite office in Aklan in the second quarter this year will ease the long lines of applicants in Iloilo City.

The congestion of clearance applicants outside the NBI Iloilo office was relayed by Miraflores during the visit in Aklan of Manuel Almendares, director of NBI-Region 6.

The governor said Aklanons applying for a clearance are having a hard time processing their applications in NBI regional office in Iloilo City.

NBI clearances are required by companies to determine if the applicant, who seeks for employment locally or abroad or applying for visa, has no pending criminal records with the NBI.

Some applicants while waiting for processing of clearance applications have to sleep overnight outside the NBI Iloilo office, Miraflores added.

To speed up the clearance processing, a dedicated line and a staff will serve the Aklanons in NBI office in Iloilo City. Still, the province of Aklan will have to purchase the equipment before the NBI could process and release the NBI clearance.

“The assigned staff will have an in-house training to handle the NBI services while we finalize the proposal by April to have an NBI satellite office in Aklan,” he said over RGMA DyRU Super Radyo Kalibo.  

The horde of applicants is expected after contract of the service provider for the processing of NBI clearances expired on December 31 last year and the closure of satellite offices at shopping malls.