Transport group Manibela calls on the Office of the Ombudsman to look into the criminal complaint over the jeepney phaseout it filed against Transportation Secretary Jaime Bautista and other concerned ranking officials.
Manibela president Mar Valbuena, along with some of his members, filed a letter of inquiry with the Ombudsman to make a follow-up on what actions were being taken on their graft complaint against Bautista, as well as Office of Transport Cooperative chairman Ferdinand Ortega, Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board chairman Teofilo Guadiz III, board members Liza Marie Paches and Mercy Jane Leynes, executive director Robert Peig and Solicitor General Menardo Guevarra.
He raised concern that the April 30 deadline for the franchise consolidation of public utility vehicles is fast approaching.
About 200 Manibela members also held a protest action to dramatize their opposition to the PUV Modernization Program and the “snail-paced” action of the Ombudsman.
The transport group filed the complaint last February, citing the transport officials and Guevara must be held liable for violating Republic Act 3019 or the Anti-Graft and Corrupt Practices Act, RA 6713 or the Code of Conduct and Ethical Standards for Public Officials and Employees as well as for grave threats and grave coercion as defined and penalized under the Revised Penal Code.
