Agusan del Sur Rep. Rodolfo “Ompong” Plaza recently urged “drastic”
measures against concerned government agencies for their failure to safeguard the lives of the sea-faring public.
The graduating congressman now eyeing a senate seat said that it was not enough that top officials of the Department of Transportation and Communications (DOTC), Marina, Coast Guard be dismissed from their post but also be made criminally liable for the recent sea tragedy that claimed the lives of at least sixty people.
He urged survivors of the sunken Ro-Ro vessel, MV Baleno 9 to file a class suit against the ship owners and officials of government implementing agencies for negligence and dereliction of duty.
He also called for the immediate inspection of all passenger seagoing vessels in the wake of frequent sea mishaps that had so far occurred in the country and the decommissioning of defective ships.
He said that this kind of vigilance in the shipping industry would only be good for his constituents in Agusan del Sur who mostly go by ships on their way to Manila and other destinations but to all the sea-going public throughout the country.
As congressman for nine consecutive years, Plaza had notched a niche for himself as a protector of the consuming as well as the riding public. He authored House Bill No. 5942, seeking to safeguard 12 million households nationwide from unregulated and unsafe LPG tanks.
The bill now pending in the senate would set regulatory standards on the sale and use of LPG products as well as prohibit the entry here of defective LPG tanks. To date, there are still three million unsafe tanks circulating in the market and another three million subject to further safety testing.
The other measures he made in the area of consumer protection are the Cheaper Medicine Act, the Magna Carta for Older Persons, and the scrapping of the Value Added Tax (VAT) on basic food commodities.
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