Anim na araw makalipas ang pananalasa ng “Milenyo” wala pa rin kaming kuryente sa Iris st., Moonwalk, Las Piñas, Metro Manila.
Dito nakikita ang pagka-inutil ng pamahalaan sa pagbigay na malahagang serbisyo sa mamamayan.
Ang isa ring inutil sa serbisyo ay itong Meralco.
Mayroon silang “hotline:” kuno: 16211. Kapag tumawag ka ang maririnig mo lang ay tape recorded message na “All circuit are busy. Please call later.” Napupud na ang daliri namin sa katatawag. Ganun pa rin ang nakukuha namin.
Wala talagang malasakit itong Meralco sa kanilang customer. Mabilis sa singilan. Makupad naman sa serbisyo.
Ang hotline ang kanilang frontline sa publiko. Ngunit walang sumasagot. Di ba panloloko yan. Bakit ka maglalagay ng tape recorded message sa hotline. Siguro ayaw na nilang sumagot sa daan-daan na reklamo na kanilang natatanggap kaya sinaksakan na lamang ng tape-recorded message ang kanilang hotline.
Hindi pwedeng rason ang marami silang natatanggap na tawag. Kapag ganitong krisis, dapat magdagdag sila ng taong tumanggap ng tawag mula sa kanilang customer. Hindi katulad nito na nangangapa sa dilim ang lahat. Hindi mo alam kung isang araw o isang taon na mawawalan ka ng kuryente.
Noong Biyernes ng gabi, sinabi ng tagapagsalita ng Meralso sa radio na 80 per cent na raw sa Metro Manila, naibalik na ang kuryente. Sabi nga namin, di kami lang pala ang kawawang 20 per cent na wala pang kuryente.
Hindi pa naka, ten minutes, nagtatawagan na ang marami na nagsasabing wala pa silang kuryente, At ang mga tawag ay nanggagaling sa halos lahat na parte ng Metro Manila. Buking na nanloloko itong spokesman.
Siyempre, kapag walang kuryente, walang tubig.
Kung matino itong ating mga opisyal, nasyonal man o local, dapat nag paikot sila ng mga trak ng tubig. Ngunit hindi ito nangyari.
Sabi ng ng isan kapitbahay namin, “Saan ang mga trak na may mga streamers ‘Patubig ni Gloria’? “Siyempre pang-propaganda lang naman yun.
Siguro itong mga mayayamang opisyal, hindi nila ramdam ang kawalan ng kuryente at tubig dahil may mga generator ang bahay o kaya, tumira sila sa hotel. Kaya tuloy ang ligaya nila. Wala silang paki-alam sa mas maraming naghihirap.
Tumawag kami sa aming barangay. Walang sumasagot. Siguro walang ring kuryente at tubig.
Pinakilos ni Gloia Arroyo ang local government at mga barangay para sa People’s Initiative. Bakit ba sa ganitong simpleng ngunit mahalagang bagay ng kuryente at tubig, walang kumikilos.
Dito nakikita ang breakdown o pagbagsak ng istraktura ng pamahalaan.Ito ang tunay na kalamidad ng Pilipinas.
Kapitbahay,
Tumawag ako sa kamag-anak ko dyan sa Apollo5….
Wala pa rin daw kuryente! Hanobayan?
Tambak na labada, dehins go-li pa! Buti na lang, he works at a hotel; dun na siya naliligo.
Basic services are slow, far too slow!
The sign “SLOW MEN AT WORK” makes sense to me now….
It is obvious gloria likes to talk….but can’t make the walk. She likes to pose for pictures….but never deliver what she promises….
Emergency Preparedness? Wala!
In control? Saan?
Right! Inutil talaga sa tawag na inutil kung serbisyo ang pag-uusapan, Ellen. I have lived long enough in the country not to understand what’s going to happen when the basic needs aren’t provided by the authorities. Kung anong bilis sa singilan, yun namang kupad sa serbisyuhan! And that was almost 30 years ago! Eh,, how much more now…tsk, tsk, tsk..!Eh, paano naman kasi medyo malabo pa kung may-eleksiyon o wala next year! Ano kaya, kung gawan naman natin ng slogan ang mga tinamaan ng putakteng iyan ng ganito: instead of “Patubig kay Gloria, gawing” Ilunod si Gloria at isama na rin si FG, Gonzalez, Defensor, Ermita, Esperon, Palparan, Claudio, na sa dami nila talagang malulunod nga!!” Walang Kuryente? Please Meralco, ibalik na at “Ikuryente si Gloria at ang mga alipores niya!”
Payag akong mawalan ng kuryente ng isang Linggo, basta ba yung kuryente gagamitin sa silya nina first baboy at si babita…ayos!
Well, what do you expect when all the monies no longer within the country and safely placed in strong boxes outside the Philippines shores. Now when the money are needed, nothing to be had. So, money is now desperately needed to bring normalcy in the country and just can’t be done by rhetoric alone. I want the service back yesterday, so illegitmate Gloria said. Yeah, sure! Samo, samo with the Abu Sayyaf and company, I want them crush in 10 weeks, and sabi niya. And to pacify Europe, so she brought si Mang Melo. Such melancholy regime!
I hope the kuryente will find its way to Gloria’s where the sun doesn’t shine. And hold the water.
Hot stuff from Malacanang, ” Malacanang has no jurisdiction over the Ombudsman, which is an independent constitutional body.” My eye! Golden Gate Bridge is up for sale for measly P1.3 Billion. And who got that kind of money, and you can have a bridge. Amazing! Sa Pilipinas lang ito.
Ellen, I was told by a friend who is an officer of the Meralco call center (16211) that up to Saturday, they have received about 22,000 calls – all irate customers nagiiyakan na nga raw yung mga CS Agents sa dami ng nagmumura sa kanila, hindi na nga raw ipinapa-log yung abusive callers dahil halos lahat na e, nagmumura.
Inutil? It’s the right title for the bogus president and her cohorts.
I just got back from a twelve-hour job at one of Japan’s TV network. I translated interviews of residents of Baseco who are selling their kidneys to the highest bidders. Why? “Papaano po kahit man lamang po telebisyon ay maibili ko ang mga kapatid ko kesa pupunta pa po kami sa kapitbahay na may anak sa Japan para makapanood ng TV!” Tangna, nakakaiyak! Para lang makapanood ng TV at makakain ng masarap kahit isang beses lang ay ibinebenta ang mga kidney lalo na raw nitong umupo si Pandak!!!
Tapos kunyari may paghihigpit daw pero tignan mo ang mga nakatira sa Baseco, halos lahat ng mga tatay at anak na lalaki doon ay wala nang isang kidney!
Baka next time, para lang mabuhay kung ano-ano nang klase ng parte ng katawan ang ibebenta ng mga nagugutom sa Pilipinas lalo na iyong hindi makalabas ng bansa kasi itong si Ale Boba, mahilig lang magpa-cute-cute, e acute naman siya! Yup! Acute na mayabang pero walang ibubuga!
PATALSIKIN NA, NOW NA!
Ellen, you should write about this new racket.
Cory by the Sea, I’ll let you know when the documentary is going to be aired on News Japan, Lalong kukulo ang dugo mo!
Tanong ng secretary ko, ano daw ba ang mas masamang ibenta, ang kidney o ang pu– ng mga babae gaya ng ginagawa sa mga pinay sa South Korea?
Meron ding mga pinay sa North Korea sa totoo lang sabi ng mga turistang hapon na nakarating na doon. Baka sila iyong nawawalang mga pilipina na hinahanap ng mga magulang nila dito.
2,200 volts KURYENTE PARA KAY GLORIA! Naghihintay ang silya elektrika para kay inutil at sobrang sinugaling Gloria Pidal Arroyo at kanyang mga alipores. Dapat ang Malacanang Palace ang giniba ang bagyong Milenyo. Parang sa biblyia Sodom at Gomorrah dahil sobra na ang kanilang kasalanan sa taongbayan.
Nakikiisa kami sa “kalbaryo” mo Ma’m Ellen at ng mga kapitbahay mo diyan sa inyong lugar sa Paranaque, although in fairness with MERALCO maybe they are just “currently overwhelmed” by the magnitude of the destruction brought about by Milenyo on their ifrastructures. Kasi, about two years ago when I was in Manila for a short visit, nagkaproblema ‘yung “dropline” ng bahay namin, wala kami power and it was about past 11:00 pm na, told my son to call Meralco, dumating sila before midnight..worked on the problem…after that I tried giving some money to the 3-man crew that came, tumanggi pa sila and refused to accept the money…nakiinom na lang ng tubig. I was very proud at that time to learn na meron pa rin talagang mga kababayan natin diyan sa ‘Pinas na “diretso” sa kanilang trabaho. Kaya Ma’m Ellen pasensyahan mo na muna MERALCO, baka medyo “sabit lang sila in their priorities”…pero si gloria na “ubod ng yabang”, sana mabagsakan ng poste ng Meralco…hehehe 😀
kabikabilang pagbaha ang nararanasan ngayon ng ating maga kababayan. pagbahang napakatagal nang problema pero ang mga namumuno ay walang matinong sistema kung paano maiiwasan ang mga darating pang kalamidad. kung tutuusin ay may pananagutan din ang ating mga karaniwang mamamayang wala ding pakialam kung maging marumi man ang daluyan ng tubig lalo na ang mga estero, kanal, ilog, sapa at mga floodways subalit kung ipakikita at ihahalimbawa ng ating mga lider ang mataos sa paglilingkod at pagpapamulat sa mga nakakalimot, marahil naman ay hindi dadanasin ang lupit ng kalikasang parang hinamon na rin ng tao.
TongueinAnew,I sympathize with the call center agents of meralco. but the company should put in more call receptionists, instead of putting on a taped recorded message. That’s no way to respond to a crisis. Kaya ka nga tumawag, dahil may kailangan na importante. You are not calling them out of caprice of whim. May pangangailangan.
Anong klaseng hotline yan na taped recorded message ang sumasagot.
Spartan, however Meralco try to justify the quality of their service in this recent disaster, it’s really dismal. It’s apparent they lack manpower. I understand they have resorted to outsourcing some parts of their in a crisis, they dopn’t have firm control of the work to be done. It was clearly felt in this crisis.
Up to now, one week had passed since Milenyo struck, we still don’t have electricity. We have not seen a shadow of a linesman look at the problem in our street. One of our neighbors went to their office, they can’t tell us what’s wrong and when we can hope to have our electricity restored in our homes. What a life!
Nawalan yata ng bisa ang magic ng reyna engkantada. Sabi niya noong kamakalawa: “I will restore power in 48 hours!”
Walang bisa, walang magawa, walang silbi, itapon na.
Ellen,
Nakapagtrabaho ako sa isang Traffic Operations ng isang Paging company kaya alam ko kung anong klase ang idinidiskarte dyan sa hotline ng Meralco.
Ewan ko na lang kapag pumasok pa ang Meralco sa most admired companies
Paano nga ba ang kanilang diskarte, Nelbar?
Isipin mo na lang kung tayong mga subscriber(mga pangalan na nasa ibaba) ang tatawag sa trunks at hotline ng Meralco ng sabay sabay, at limitado ang linya ng telepono?
ellen
nelbar
alitaptap
mrivera
spartan
diego
ystakei
tounge
toney
taipan
elvira
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Dalawang klase ang busy tones
isang mabilis at isang mabagal.(fast busy tones and slow busy tones).
matanong ko rin, anu-ano ba ang mga carrier na tumatawag?
(carrier i.e., pldt, globe, smart, etpi, pt&t, digitel, BAYANTEL, Cellular/Mobile MTSO atbp).
Kung Bayantel subscriber ka, siguradong makakakontak ka ng Meralco 💡
Palace apologizes for failing to check safety of billboards
By Sherwin C. Olaes
10/04/2006
After the infamous “I am sorry speech” of President Arroyo during the height of the “Hello Garci” controversy last year, Malacañang once again apologized to the people, this time for failing to monitor the construction of “hazardous billboards,” especially in Metro Manila.
At a press conference after the meeting of the National Disaster Coordinating Council (NDCC) at Malacañang, Executive Secretary Eduardo Ermita was asked if the national government will apologize for the danger posed to the people by such billboards, to which the latter replied: “We’re sorry for what happened but the government is doing its best and doing its work.”
Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) Secretary Hermogenes Ebdane, who is supposed to be in-charge of monitoring the construction and safety of billboards, for his part, said he takes full responsibility for it.
“I’m taking responsibility for that,” Ebdane said after hearing the question asked of Ermita.
Ebdane, through the administrative order which will be issued today by President Arroyo, was given the “blanket authority” to dismantle “hazardous billboards” on major thoroughfares while local government units (LGUs) will be responsible for those on minor roads.
The Administrative Order (AO) aims to regulate the construction of billboards on major thoroughfares.
Ebdane said there will be no sacred cows in his campaign of assessing the safety of major billboards and dismantling them if found needed.
“I don’t promise, I’ll just do it,” he said.
Under the provisions of the AO which will be officially issued today by the Palace, the DPWH will assess all major billboards on main thoroughfares based on four guidelines. First, they must not be hazardous to life and safety of the public; second, they must comply with existing rules and regulations by the national and local government, third, they must not be constructed near the so-called right-of-way by motorists, and fourth, they must have secured a permit both from the concerned LGUs and Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA).
Defense Secretary and NDCC Chairman Avelino Cruz Jr. said billboards found to have violated even one of the four guidelines must be immediately dismantled by the DPWH.
In a chance interview at the Palace, MMDA Chairman Bayani Fernando admitted not one major billboard posted in the metropolis had sought permission from his office.
Meanwhile, government corporate counsel Agnes Divinadera at the same press conference said not only billboard owners but concerned local executives will also be liable for criminal and administrative charges.
The charges will stem from the recommendation which will be submitted by the DPWH to the Department of Justice.
“Local officials who issue permits to such hazardous billboards are also liable for criminal and civil charges,” Divinadera said.
The Palace yesterday castigated billboard owners and advertisers for their slow cooperation in dismantling billboards which collapsed during the rampage of Typhoon “Milenyo” last Thursday.
Press Secretary Ignacio Bunye said Mrs. Arroyo wants all hazardous billboards to be dismantled immediately and she expects billboard owners and advertisers to be responsible enough and draw safety measures which would avoid the repeat of Thursday’s incident.
“President Arroyo wants hazardous billboards off the streets and the government has started dismantling those found in gross violation of public safety. This problem demands a sense of responsibility among the billboard owners and advertisers for mapping out safety measures to protect the public,” Bunye said.
ay em sori na naman? hayyyyyy!!!!
alitaptap, kahit ‘yun ngang pinakambagsik na anting anting nawawalan ng bisa kapag laging ginagamit sa kawalanghiyaan, ‘yan pa kayang pakitang tao lang?
…..pinakamabagsik……..
From Viet Nam News:
Central region copes with typhoon aftermath
(03-10-2006)
DA NANG — Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung ordered 1,500 tonnes of rice to be released to the provinces of Quang Nam and Thua Thien-Hue, as well as the city of Da Nang, to aid local populations in the aftermath of Typhoon Xangsane.
The Government also announced that it would grant VND50 billion to the central region areas hit by the typhoon, with the city of Da Nang to receive VND20 billion, the city of Hue VND10 billion, and the city of Quy Nhon, VND5 billion. The provinces of Quang Nam, Quang Tri and Kon Tum would receive VND10 billion, 3 billion and 2 billion, respectively.
The Viet Nam Fatherland Front announced yesterday that it would provide VND2 million for each family that lost a member in the storm and VND1 million to each family with a member injured.
The Ministry of Defence’s Disaster Victims Aid Fund assisted victims’ families with VND5 million each and sent VND500 million each to the two provinces of Thua Thien-Hue and Quang Nam, the city of Da Nang that suffered the worst losses in the typhoon.
Quang Binh, Quang Tri and Quang Ngai provinces each received VND300 million, and Ha Tinh and Binh Dinh provinces each received VND100 million.
Staff of the Bank for Investment and Development of Viet Nam (BIDV) raised VND900 million for typhoon-damaged provinces.
Tolling the damage
Authorities and residents in the central provinces are endeavoring to return to normal after Typhoon Xangsane left heavy damage.
Preliminary statistics from the National Steering Committee for Storm and Flood Control showed that Typhoon Xangsane killed at least 12 people (not including the four cases earlier reported in Nghe An which were not directly caused by the typhoon), and injured hundreds of others. Nearly 500 victims were receiving treatment at Da Nang General Hospital.
Losses estimated at trillions of dong included downed power and phone lines, irrigation systems and road damage. Losses were expected to mount as the level of many rivers continued to rise, bringing the threat of additional flooding.
More than 5,120 homes collapsed and over 166,000 others suffered structural damage with Quang Nam and Thua Thien-Hue provinces suffering the heaviest losses.
Vo Le, head of local border guard forces in Man Lap Tay in Da Nang’s Son Tra District, died while patrolling during the typhoon. A metal roof fell on his head and he died due to brain injury. He left a wife suffering from heart disease and three school-age daughters.
According to the Vietnam News Agency correspondent in Thua Thien-Hue, heavy rains were still falling in the province after the typhoon, flooding nearly 17,000 homes and uprooting nearly 1,500 trees in Hue.
No deaths were reported in the imperial city but 31 were injured. Work crews in the province had cleared roads while more than 500 police arrived to assist the local population.
A provincial official said that the most urgent work for the province was to ensure resettlement of thousands left homeless, as well as to take measures against possible flash floods overnight.
Electricity of Viet Nam held emergency meetings to review and estimate losses caused by the typhoon. Da Nang and Thua Thien-Hue would likely suffer power outages more while important units, including post offices and broadcasting stations would continue to rely on diesel generators.
Hundreds of electric poles in Da Nang fell and many electric stations were flooded. Some isolated districts and communes would likely remain without power for some time.
Many students in Hue would likely miss school through the end of this week. The municipal People’s Committee guided relevant sectors to gets students back to school as soon as possible and provided each district with VND2 billion to make repairs to schools.
Bui Huu Thanh, director of the Thua Thien-Hue Electricity Department, said the city’s power was restored on Sunday but had to be turned off yesterday during repairs.
Transportation routes
Vietnam Airlines yesterday reported that it had all flights in and out of Da Nang would continue.
Airline spokesman Nguyen Tan Chan said the airline had planned to add flights on routes cancelled over the weekend during the storm.
According to Ninh Viet Cuong of the Viet Nam Railway Corporation, the railway route from north to south was re-opened yesterday after the sector’s workers repaired landslides and flooded areas on the route. The damage caused by the typhoon was estimated at VND5.8 billion.
HCM City pitches in
People in HCM City have donated VND4 billion to help Xangsane-stricken provinces in the central region.
The HCM City Party Committee on Sunday called on State and other agencies to raise relief for victims of Typhoon Xangsane which lashed the central coast on Sunday.
The city will also provide VND2 billion (US$125,0000) from its natural disaster reserve fund for relief work.
The city’s Communist Youth Union sent an open letter urging members and people to set up teams of volunteers to go to the central region.
Viet Nam Red Cross Society chairman Nguyen Van Thuong said the agency had collected 3,000 essential household items like mosquito nets, blankets, and utensils for affected families in Quang Binh Province.
The organisers of the ongoing U-21 national football championship in Da Nang have decided to hand over all ticket proceeds to city authorities for typhoon relief. The authorities have instructed the local Sports and Physical Training Department to repair stadiums damaged in the typhoon so that the tournament can continue. — VN
The bottom line, Philippines is lacking resources among other things to handle such magnitude. I will add more, but what else need to be said, we all got the picture of what’s like to live in a third world country. Oooops, pardon me, what I meant was Second World per fake Gloria.
Ellen:
If you need emergency generator may be we can all pitch in.
Thanks Toney. Finally, our electricity was restored last night.
Philippines, Vietnam still assessing damage from Xangsane
Wed Oct 4, 4:20 AM ET
MANILA (AFP) – The Philippine and Vietnamese governments are still assessing the economic fallout from Typhoon Xangsane nearly a week after cutting a trail of destruction across the two countries, officials and analysts have said. In Vietnam, the death toll has risen to 52 with another seven people missing, officials said, as the clean-up operation swung into full gear.
Vietnamese state media said most of them were electrocuted or had been killed by fallen trees or collapsed houses.
Philippine Finance Secretary, Margarito Teves, said it was still too early to determine the full impact of the typhoon on the economy.
“The calamity would certainly have an impact,” he told the Business Mirror.
A view shared by Agriculture Secretary Domingo Panganiban who warned that the prices of some basic food items such as rice and chicken may rise after Xangsane wipedout vast tracts of agricultural land.
The Department of Energy said initial estimates of damage to the power infrastructure alone may exceed 480 million pesos (9.80 million dollars).
Energy Secretary, Raphael Lotilla, said: “We are still finalising the estimates.”
Panganiban said poultry farms south of Manila had been heavily affected by the typhoon, and Manila is planning to import at least three million kilograms (6.6 million pounds) of dressed chicken from the United States “so it would not be a chickenless Christmas.”
At the Philippine Stock Exchange, investors cashed out on blue-chips such as Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co. (PLDT) amid concerns that repair costs could impact of PLDT’s profit.
AB Capital Securities said in a note to clients that there were suggestions that “some economists are warning about a possible downgrade in the economy’s growth forecasts due to the effects of Xangsane.”
Power has yet to be fully restored six days after Xangsane’s strong winds toppled electric transmission facilities, causing massive power outage that forced businesses to halt operations.
The typhoon killed at least 207 people and displaced 1.95 million people in 19 of the country’s 77 provinces, according to official counts.
Some parts of Manila and surrounding provinces, plus Sorsogon province on the southern tip of the main island of Luzon, were still without electricity by Wednesday, the civil defense office here said. Telephone services were also down in some of these areas.
Although the typhoon has moved on since slamming into central Vietnam early Sunday, officials said they were still worried about floods and landslides as rains remained very heavy in some areas.
Central Highlands provinces, along the Laos border, have been ordered “to immediately evacuate people from lowland areas close to rivers and streams due to the imminent danger of landslides,” the English-language Vietnam News said Wednesday.
The national committee on flood and storm control said on its website that 42 people were reported dead in six different central provinces and seven were missing.
However, tolls provided to AFP by provincial rescue officials took the toll to 52.
Four deaths reported by officials in Thua Thien-Hue and six in Ha Tinh were not yet included in the national list.
“The four included two children swept away by the floods after they brought food to their grandparents,” said Phan Thanh Hung, head of the Thua Thien-Hue provincial flood and storm control committee.
courtesy of Yahoo!® News
“More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones.”
St. Teresa of Avila (1515-1582), Spanish nun, mystic and writer.
(On October 4, 1582, St. Teresa of Avila died)
“There’s a difference between a philosophy and a bumper sticker.”
Charles M. Schulz (1922-2000), US cartoonist.
(On October 2, 1950, first Peanuts comic strip published)
I remember a few months ago when the issue of Billboards was raised in PCIJ reports, I (naykika) along with numerous readers were very “vocal’ about the hazards pose by these improperly regulated Gigantic Billboards not only for the users of the roadways, but also for the pedestrian along the roadways. I even commented that I have driven thousands and thousands of miles all over ontario and quebec and northeast U.S.A. and never seen such proximity of billboards toward the roadway. Had they done anything about it? Nothing. As usual waiting for the horse to die, before providing hay, is our government’s attitude. And I can bet my last dollar, as soon as this current event fade away on the public memory, the same will be the so-called presidential order to of gutting down the “unsafe billboards”. No sacred-cow my foot.. there is no such thing anyways..
Dito sa Tsina, hahanga kayo sa kaunlaran ng bansang minsan ay kailangan pang mag-import ng mga produkto sa ibang bansa. Kasalukuyang tinatayo ang multi-billion na Mega Dam. Tinatayo din ang mga gusali para sa darating na World Olympic. Ang Shanghai ang patuloy na umuunlad. Pati space projects ay pinakialaman na din. At siyempre may nuclear weapons ang Tsina. Pero bakit tameme ang US at ibang mga bansa? Dahil takot sila sa Tsina. Isa pang maingay ang bansa ng mga sakang na minsan nang gustong maging Hari sa Asia. Dahil walang kakampi ay kumampi na lang sa mga Kano na numero unong kaaway nila noon. Tapos kapag may negatibong komento tungkol sa Amerika dito, may agad na magtatanggol.
We should support this to do away with such inconveniences…
Power Sector Reform Blog Launch
Bukidnon Rep. Teofisto “TG” Guingona III has formally launched his power sector reform blog. Entitled NAKUPO (http://www.nakupo-nakupo.blogspot.com/), the blog seeks to be the internet site for Rep. Guingona’s advocacy to bring down electricity rates. His major advocacy includes the Privatization of the National Power Corporation (NAPOCOR) and the full implementation of the EPIRA law.
In his previous policy adovacy statements, he sees the NAPOCOR as a mafia controlling the price of electricity by having a virtual monopoly on power generation.
The blog includes newspaper articles quoting Rep. Guingona’s statements. It also includes transcripts of radio interviews he made in the course of his advocacy. Also available are the two major privilege speeches he made on corruption and questionable dealings of NAPOCOR and that of the Power Sector Assets and Liabilities Management Corporation or PSALM, the agency tasked to privatize NAPOCOR’s assets.
It is envisioned that with the blog, Rep. Guingona would reach more online citizens, including the private sector and civil society groups with the same concern for lowering of electricity rates.
The blog will also be Rep. Guingona’s way of building bridge with the more powerful consumer rights blogs which could provide pressure to national government officials to seek meaningful reforms in the power sector.