{"id":100260,"date":"2017-04-28T23:38:56","date_gmt":"2017-04-29T03:38:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=100260"},"modified":"2017-04-28T23:39:48","modified_gmt":"2017-04-29T03:39:48","slug":"ex-dotc-chief-abaya-not-off-the-hook-yet-poe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/04\/28\/ex-dotc-chief-abaya-not-off-the-hook-yet-poe\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-DOTC chief Abaya not off the hook yet\u2014Poe"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Former transport Secretary Joseph Emilio Abaya will still have to answer to several issues hounding the Metro Rail Transit-3 (MRT-3), Sen. Grace Poe said, determined to invite him to attend a Senate probe into the new train coaches which remained unusable. (Photo: Grace Poe\/ Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

MANILA\u2014Former transport Secretary Joseph Emilio Abaya will still have to answer to several issues hounding the Metro Rail Transit-3 (MRT-3), Sen. Grace Poe said, determined to invite him to attend a Senate probe into the new train coaches which remained unusable.<\/p>\n

\u201cSi Secretary Abaya, so siyempre kailangan kong ipatawag (Sec. Abaya, of course I will need to invite him),\u201d Poe, chair of the Senate Committee on Public Services said in a radio interview.<\/p>\n

\u201cMarami pong mga panga-pangalan diyan pero siyempre ang kalihim mismo ay hindi dapat makalusot. (There are many other names to mention, but the chief himself cannot get off the hook),\u201d she added.<\/p>\n

Poe said that the former transport secretary does not deserve \u201cto have rest\u201d because he still needed plenty of explaining to do.<\/p>\n

She said that although the Senate had no power to order Abaya\u2019s detention, it had the power to recommend.<\/p>\n

\u201cHindi naman namin pwedeng sabihin na, \u2018o, ipakulong iyan.\u2019 Pero, puwede kaming magrekomenda (We can\u2019t say \u2018o, put him to jail.\u2019 But, we can recommend,) she further said.<\/p>\n

The senator said that he could face graft or plunder charges.<\/p>\n

Transport Secretary Arthur Tugade said that the department is currently evaluating the new 48 train coaches purchased under the previous administration from the Dalian Locomotive and Rolling Stock Co. of China for the MRT-3.<\/p>\n

The 48 LRVs were procured by the former administration for Php 3.8 billion as part of the MRT-3 capacity expansion project of Abaya.<\/p>\n

However, Tugade said that the new coaches remained unusable because it had no signaling system device, which maintains safe distances between trains and controls its speed.<\/p>\n

Poe said that the new coaches being unusable was a waste of money. However, she said that she agreed with Tugade that the agency should not insist on using them to ensure the safety of passengers.<\/p>\n

The senator is set to file a resolution calling for a probe into the MRT-3 problems when the Senate resumes regular sessions on May 2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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