Heads must roll for the mess they have done with the Metro
Rail Transit-3!!
Everyday commuters-common Filipino taxpayers suffer all the
different kind of horrors we can imagine that can happen in a mass railway
transit system. All of this because the Aquino administration did not do it job
the way it should have been. The only thing they were good at in the way MRT
was managed? They enriched themselves with taxpayer’s money with all their
kickbacks.
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| former DOTC and Interior and Local Government chief Manuel “Mar” Roxas II and former DOTC and Interior and Local Government chief Manuel “Mar” Roxas II both members of the Liberal Party(photo credit to owner) |
Former Department of Transportation
secretary Joseph Emilio Abaya was the main man being implicated in the
anomalous P3.8-billion contract for the maintenance of the Metro Rail Transit
Line 3 (MRT-3). *
News has come out that Former Metro
Rail Transit-3 (MRT-3) General Manager Al Vitangcol III is expected to
corroborate the testimonies of the whistleblowers, who have made themselves
public in naming the officials during the Aquino administration received
kickbacks from the MRT-3 contract.
Presidential Spokesperson Harry
Roque made the statement when asked about any updates regarding the still
unnamed whistleblowers’ documentary evidence to back their claims.
“I am able to confirm that I had a meeting with the Usec (Undersecretary) for Legal for DOTr and we will listen to what Al Vitangcol has to say to corroborate the statements of whistleblowers that have already communicated with me,” Roque said during a Malacañang press briefing.
Roque was referring to Department of Transportation (DOTr) Undersecretary for Legal Affairs and Procurement Reinier Paul Yebra.
He, however, denied that Vitangcol was one of the whistleblowers who had approached him.
“He is not obviously my whistleblower. I guess, what he says is their testimonies are weak compared to his,” Roque said, adding that he has yet to find out what Vitangcol has to expose.
Vitangcol previously pointed all
the blame to his former boss and former Department of Transportation and
Communications (DOTC) Secretary Joseph “Jun” Abaya after the latter was spared
from a graft case on the MRT-3 maintenance contract. *
The Presidential spokesperson said
that he would be disclosing soon the facts and details about what he called “the
plunder of MRT-3.”
Roque is awaiting the go signal
from the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the National Bureau of Investigation
(NBI), before he can disclose the details of the documents he submited to the 2
government agencies.
Earlier this month, Malacañang made
known that “new cases” would be filed which are different from the plunder
charges filed by the DOTr against the ex-DOTC officials in November 2017.
“There was a decision that cases will be pursued for those behind the miserable performance of MRT-3,” Roque said. “There are pending complaints about plunder against officials of the previous administration, specifically for awarding the maintenance contract to a company with absolutely no track record."
Roque clarified that the ex-DOTC officials includes Abaya and his predecessor, former DOTC and Interior and Local Government chief Manuel “Mar” Roxas II, both members of the Liberal Party and known allies of former president Benigno Simeon “Noynoy” Aquino III.
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