EDITORIAL – Corruption in the LTFRB

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Despite an increase in the jeepney minimum fare, transport group Manibela announced yesterday it would stage a nationwide strike beginning Oct. 16, not over fares or high fuel prices, but over the planned phaseout of jeepneys by yearend.

The group also called attention to another problem. Joining Manibela members at their press conference, Jeffrey Tumbado, former head executive assistant of Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board Chairman Teofilo Guadiz III, hurled allegations of corruption in the LTFRB.

It’s not the first time that allegations of corruption have been hurled against the LTFRB. What’s new is the suspension of its chief on orders of the President himself. For many years, accusations of graft also hounded its sister agency the Land Transportation Office, where the circuitous processing of driver’s licenses and motor vehicle license plates allowed “fixers” to thrive. Guadiz headed the LTO from July 2022 before he was tapped for the LTFRB in December last year.

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