BACKBENCHER
Rod Kapunan
10/8-9/2011
Anybody with common sense could tell how the Supreme Court lost track of what it is supposed to do when it lifted its restraining order to stop the collection of the 12 percent value-added tax imposed on motorists using the country’s expressways. The government insists it needs additional revenue of between P2 billion and P3 billion to narrow the widening budget deficit. As usual, it is the people who are made to bear the burden.
Reexamining the current opposition, one would realize that the amount is only incidental. The indignation of many is why the High Court legalized the collection of tollway fees by the private operators. The question may sound philosophical, but knowing the wisdom behind the law is the only way to guide the courts to let the public understand that the exaction is “for their own good.”
That is supposed to be the case because there are basic obligations the state must undertake to justify its existence. It is its ability to carry out those obligations that justifies its right to collect taxes. To ensure that they are not hindered, the people entrust their government some extraordinary powers as those obligations are for their common good. One is the power of eminent domain.
Originally and as today, that power is exclusive only to the State. Although eminent domain pertains to the confiscation of real property for public use, the government nonetheless is committed to pay just compensation. This we must understand because road and bridge construction is essential to commerce, and is considered the lifeblood of the nation.
But when the father of the country’s privatization sold in 1994 the North Luzon Expressway to the Lopezes, he squarely placed in grave doubt that wisdom. Certainly the former owners of those escheated properties would not have meekly parted away with their lands had they anticipated that the government would sell them, just as they are now shouting to high heavens as they see those private tollway operators raking in much profit while the government imposed an additional burden called VAT to support itself.
The stupid “privateers” would argue that since the expressways are now in private hands, they have the right to impose VAT on services for income above P1.5 million a year. If so, then who told them to sell them when the government could have earned more in direct earnings had it retained ownership of those expressways following the logic that percentage-wise profit will always remain bigger than taxes? It is on this score that sensible Filipinos say the privatization of the expressways is a clear circumvention of the power of eminent domain.
The first decree, Presidential Decree No. 1005 issued on September 22, 1976 by then President Marcos allowed the reasonable collection of toll, but on a self-liquidating basis. That means fees will have to be collected to defray the cost advanced by the contractor, but should automatically stop upon full payment. Subsequently, P.D. No. 1112 issued on March 31, 1977 created the Toll Regulatory Board to regulate and check the amount collected from motorists. The same decree was amended by P.D. No. 1649 issued on October 26, 1979 authorizing the establishment of toll facilities on public improvements, and amending the Toll Regulatory Board.
The commuting public would not mind being charged an amount to defray the cost for its construction and a minimal amount for maintenance, but not for a private entity to continually amass profit out of the misuse of that extraordinary power that left them with no choice but to cede their properties. The motorists and the indignant commuters are asking whether there is a derivative power arising in the exercise of eminent domain like the power of the private expressway operators to collect toll fees. Their argument stems not from any socialistic sentiment, but out of plain logic that eminent domain is an instrument of the state, not of the private sector, so to put an order to our system of free enterprise.
The privatization of the expressways, like many of those industries sold by the Ramos administration, would obviously demand not just the maintenance of the toll, but would insist as a condition precedent the deregulation of their rate. That was bound to happen for then the concept of public service for the common good automatically ceased. Thus, it came as no surprise why right after the government-owned NLEX was handed to the Lopez-owned First Philippine Holdings, the toll was astronomically increased, by more than 1000 percent, from P21.50 to P218 from Balintawak to Sta. Ines.
Of course, the buyer-company carried out improvements, but just the same it was the public that shouldered the cost, notwithstanding that part of the funds used came in the form of a foreign loan. It is no longer a case of them required to use their profit to recapitalize their business or to borrow for additional capital to comply with their obligation pursuant to the grant of franchise.
The deregulation of the tollway fees contributed much to the unreasonable increase in the prices of goods and services. The corresponding inflation explains why the amount printed on the face of those paper bills has tremendously increased, but not its value. Having been made a permanent fixture, it is now the government that has to pathetically beg and justify the demand of the private operators so to raise its share in the VAT. In effect, the government now stands as co-principal in gouging the motorists for higher tollway fees.
Besides, the continued increase of the tolls is a limitation on the right of the individual to freely travel, except in the interest of national security, public safety or public health. Such interpretation of Section 6, Article III of the Constitution is not borne out of one’s fertile imagination, but rooted on the same postulate that the state is obligated to construct roads and bridges to allow people to freely travel for business, for family visitation, for religious pilgrimage or for the joy of traveling, and the driving force why they have to pay taxes.
The power of eminent domain is a residual right to our freedom to travel, and not the other way around. Sadly enough, our courts have totally forgotten if not ignored this constitutional mandate. So, as tollway fees continually increase, the courts wittingly or unwittingly allow the private operators to use that power to violate our sacred right to travel without restriction.
(rodkap@yahoo.com.ph)
Sunday, October 9, 2011
Friday, October 7, 2011
Rice pila again?
DIE HARD III
Herman Tiu Laurel
10/7/2011
The annual floods that are already an expected ritual by the Philippine population have come and gone (at least for most), but the problems caused by this latest deluge are certainly going to stay longer than the yet-to-recede flood waters in certain parts of Northern and Central Luzon.
This long submersion of our rice fields was one major issue on the mind of farmer-leader Sonny Domingo, whose post-“Pedring” assessment of the rice supply situation I asked for. “The problem,” he said, “is the proximity of the typhoons and floods which came one after the other in a span of a day or two (didn’t allow) the rice fields and rice stocks (enough) time to dry. (And as) 50 percent of Central Luzon rice harvests have been hit; now the grains are blackened.”
I immediately queried if we are going to have another rice pila — to which he said: “(Unless) we can bring in rice from Mindanao.” But there’s a catch: “We don’t have enough bottoms (ships) so they can’t ship enough.”
If it’s not the lack of one thing, it is another. And as the crises for Filipinos never seem to end, the urgent question for everyone now is whether Luzon and the rest of the country will be facing another rice supply crisis because of the recent calamities.
The top honcho of the Department of Agriculture (DA), politician Proceso Alcala, boasted in the first few months of the present administration (after sufficient rains blessed the country) that “We have achieved the highest production in history.” He even declared that, by 2013, we will not need to import anymore.
It seems his enthusiasm was so palpable that, according to one Internet account I read, “Old-timers in the Department of Agriculture who cautioned him from such an ‘impossible dream’ found (themselves) removed or canned.”
It wasn’t just that: Alcala boasted that only 500,000 metric tons of imports for 2012 (as against Gloria Arroyo’s last year imports of 2.45 million metric tons) would be necessary. That, of course, would be ideal as our farmer-leader Sonny Domingo will say. But given the realities, just a slight miscalculation will usher in hell and high water for the entire nation.
Just think of the grave error committed by Fidel Ramos’ dreamy-eyed DA secretary, Bobot Sebastian, who, upon his boss’ much-hyped “Kaya natin ito” and “high value crops” campaign, held back on securing buffer supplies and ended up with shocking images of rice queues for hours on end, with people waiting for their meager rice rations in lines that spanned hundreds of meters, and with rice delivery trucks being reportedly attacked by hungry folks desperate to feed their families.
Thus, my own advocacy for the country’s long-term food strategy is not only to address the rice production issue but also to start giving emphasis to changing our attitude toward the dietary staple.
I have personally shifted to consuming only kamoteng orange, something that my mother used to feed me by mixing into lugaw whenever I came down with a fever. That white or parchment-colored root crop on the outside (and orange inside) is what the Chinese use for nursing back the sick. I now take this every meal, avoiding white rice. I only take the latter once or twice a week whenever sinangag, paired with chicken-pork adobo, is laid out on the table (which I still find irresistible). But my “orange kamote and no rice habit” has caught on in the family; my diabetic wife finds that her blood sugar has decreased while my fitness-conscious son lost eight pounds of fat in a week by totally avoiding white rice.
The People’s Republic of China is engaged in a national drive to develop root crops — and a wide variety of it — as its future staple replacing rice. Potatoes and such root crops require a fifth of the water that rice needs to produce each calorie and pack more nutrients. China, of course, has produced wonders and miracles in multiplying its rice production yields from its own developed hybrids and vast irrigation system. It is a balanced development of that nation’s agriculture that has ensured its food security well into a quarter of a century into the future.
The problem with BS Aquino III’s Agriculture secretary is that he is building his promises on wild dreams without preparing the ground, and without a fully-integrated and balanced development plan that includes all the other branches of government. Maybe that’s what the National Food Authority sees as perilous, making it continuously urge for more buffer stocks.
Of course, importing rice has become an unpopular idea, especially since its massive abuse by the Arroyo administration. But, if immediate food security is essential, then it cannot be discounted.
The matter of actual supply versus statistical shortages, as reported by UP Los Baños expert Teodoro Mendoza, must therefore be checked out. We’re told that much of the supply, including plenty of smuggled rice, is in Mindanao. But then, Sonny Domingo’s info on lack of ships also becomes crucial. According to the office of Sen. Antonio Trillanes, our country’s Cabotage Law has made inter-island shipping so expensive that it is more costly to ship from Mindanao to Luzon than it is from foreign shores to Manila.
Indeed, the problem is more complicated than just a promise of rice self-sufficiency in two years’ time. It certainly requires more “coconuts,” i.e. brain power, to solve, (the literal version of) which, by the way, we will delve into in a future article.
(Tune in to Sulo ng Pilipino/Radyo OpinYon, Monday to Friday, 5 to 6 p.m. on 1098AM; Talk News TV with HTL, Saturday, 8:15 to 9 p.m., with replay at 11 p.m., on GNN, Destiny Cable Channel 8 on “VAT, Fuel, Power Protests” with Rep. Tet Garcia and some NGOs; visit http://newkatipunero.blogspot.com for our articles plus TV and radio archives)
Herman Tiu Laurel
10/7/2011
The annual floods that are already an expected ritual by the Philippine population have come and gone (at least for most), but the problems caused by this latest deluge are certainly going to stay longer than the yet-to-recede flood waters in certain parts of Northern and Central Luzon.
This long submersion of our rice fields was one major issue on the mind of farmer-leader Sonny Domingo, whose post-“Pedring” assessment of the rice supply situation I asked for. “The problem,” he said, “is the proximity of the typhoons and floods which came one after the other in a span of a day or two (didn’t allow) the rice fields and rice stocks (enough) time to dry. (And as) 50 percent of Central Luzon rice harvests have been hit; now the grains are blackened.”
I immediately queried if we are going to have another rice pila — to which he said: “(Unless) we can bring in rice from Mindanao.” But there’s a catch: “We don’t have enough bottoms (ships) so they can’t ship enough.”
If it’s not the lack of one thing, it is another. And as the crises for Filipinos never seem to end, the urgent question for everyone now is whether Luzon and the rest of the country will be facing another rice supply crisis because of the recent calamities.
The top honcho of the Department of Agriculture (DA), politician Proceso Alcala, boasted in the first few months of the present administration (after sufficient rains blessed the country) that “We have achieved the highest production in history.” He even declared that, by 2013, we will not need to import anymore.
It seems his enthusiasm was so palpable that, according to one Internet account I read, “Old-timers in the Department of Agriculture who cautioned him from such an ‘impossible dream’ found (themselves) removed or canned.”
It wasn’t just that: Alcala boasted that only 500,000 metric tons of imports for 2012 (as against Gloria Arroyo’s last year imports of 2.45 million metric tons) would be necessary. That, of course, would be ideal as our farmer-leader Sonny Domingo will say. But given the realities, just a slight miscalculation will usher in hell and high water for the entire nation.
Just think of the grave error committed by Fidel Ramos’ dreamy-eyed DA secretary, Bobot Sebastian, who, upon his boss’ much-hyped “Kaya natin ito” and “high value crops” campaign, held back on securing buffer supplies and ended up with shocking images of rice queues for hours on end, with people waiting for their meager rice rations in lines that spanned hundreds of meters, and with rice delivery trucks being reportedly attacked by hungry folks desperate to feed their families.
Thus, my own advocacy for the country’s long-term food strategy is not only to address the rice production issue but also to start giving emphasis to changing our attitude toward the dietary staple.
I have personally shifted to consuming only kamoteng orange, something that my mother used to feed me by mixing into lugaw whenever I came down with a fever. That white or parchment-colored root crop on the outside (and orange inside) is what the Chinese use for nursing back the sick. I now take this every meal, avoiding white rice. I only take the latter once or twice a week whenever sinangag, paired with chicken-pork adobo, is laid out on the table (which I still find irresistible). But my “orange kamote and no rice habit” has caught on in the family; my diabetic wife finds that her blood sugar has decreased while my fitness-conscious son lost eight pounds of fat in a week by totally avoiding white rice.
The People’s Republic of China is engaged in a national drive to develop root crops — and a wide variety of it — as its future staple replacing rice. Potatoes and such root crops require a fifth of the water that rice needs to produce each calorie and pack more nutrients. China, of course, has produced wonders and miracles in multiplying its rice production yields from its own developed hybrids and vast irrigation system. It is a balanced development of that nation’s agriculture that has ensured its food security well into a quarter of a century into the future.
The problem with BS Aquino III’s Agriculture secretary is that he is building his promises on wild dreams without preparing the ground, and without a fully-integrated and balanced development plan that includes all the other branches of government. Maybe that’s what the National Food Authority sees as perilous, making it continuously urge for more buffer stocks.
Of course, importing rice has become an unpopular idea, especially since its massive abuse by the Arroyo administration. But, if immediate food security is essential, then it cannot be discounted.
The matter of actual supply versus statistical shortages, as reported by UP Los Baños expert Teodoro Mendoza, must therefore be checked out. We’re told that much of the supply, including plenty of smuggled rice, is in Mindanao. But then, Sonny Domingo’s info on lack of ships also becomes crucial. According to the office of Sen. Antonio Trillanes, our country’s Cabotage Law has made inter-island shipping so expensive that it is more costly to ship from Mindanao to Luzon than it is from foreign shores to Manila.
Indeed, the problem is more complicated than just a promise of rice self-sufficiency in two years’ time. It certainly requires more “coconuts,” i.e. brain power, to solve, (the literal version of) which, by the way, we will delve into in a future article.
(Tune in to Sulo ng Pilipino/Radyo OpinYon, Monday to Friday, 5 to 6 p.m. on 1098AM; Talk News TV with HTL, Saturday, 8:15 to 9 p.m., with replay at 11 p.m., on GNN, Destiny Cable Channel 8 on “VAT, Fuel, Power Protests” with Rep. Tet Garcia and some NGOs; visit http://newkatipunero.blogspot.com for our articles plus TV and radio archives)
Monday, October 3, 2011
Vigil vs. PBR (Performance Based Rape)
CONSUMERS DEMAND!
Herman Tiu Laurel
10/3-5/2011
My erstwhile colleague in OpinYon, Butch Junia, calls it the “Pahirap sa Bayan Rate.” But, given the fact that the Energy Regulatory Commission’s PBR or Performance Based Rate, a rate setting formula implemented in 2004, has given us the highest power rates in Asia, it’s more like a “Performance Based Rape.”
When the Supreme Court reaffirmed the now defunct 12-percent Return-on-Rate Base (RoRB) mechanism in 2003 and, along with it, disallowed the Manila Electric Co. or Meralco’s pass-on of its corporate income taxes to consumers, ordering the Commission on Audit to open the power company’s books--through which Meralco was found to have overcharged consumers in at least two test audits--the ERC, in a seeming act of defiance and showing everyone “the finger,” concocted the 15.8-percent PBR.
Drastic action needed
Fast forward to the present and everybody, including the normally quiet and conservative business and labor groups, is now openly clamoring for drastic action against the massive price gouging in the generation, transmission, and distribution of electricity.
The Philippine Chamber of Commerce of the Philippines (PCCI); the Philippine Steelmakers Association (PSA); the Philippine Exporters Confederation (PhilExport); the UP National Engineering Center; the Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (TUCP), including the Associated Labor Union (ALU); and, the Foundation for Economic Freedom (FEF), a group that ironically advocated privatization of the power industry, have all recently spoken out in a joint statement against the Philippines’ highest power cost in Asia. Specifically, they decried the absence of any “specific and strong action program or roadmap coming from the executive department” to address the current power rate crisis.
Democrito Mendoza of the TUCP, not always the most assertive labor leader, worked up the courage to “ask the Aquino administration to bring power rates down.” He was joined by the chief operating officer of PhilExport who, upon citing figures from the Department of Energy on the Philippines’ power rates at 24 US cents per kilowatt-hour compared to Thailand and Malaysia’s eight and seven US cents per kilowatt-hour, respectively, added that our power rates are “the biggest disincentive to the entry of new foreign direct investors to our shores.”
Meanwhile, Gerard R. Seno of the ALU demanded that Malacañang “make the necessary bold policy interventions, including the suspension and review of all pending power rate increase petitions in the Energy Regulatory Commission,” with TUCP’s Mendoza calling for the scrapping of the 15.8-percent PBR and the restoration of the 12-percent RoRB, stressing that high power rates eat up as much as 11 percent of workers’ income.
Concepcion’s lip service
Power company director Jojo Borja of Iligan Light, an advocate who has provided powerful, documented evidence against the ERC-Meralco tandem’s price gouging, called me about these news with enthusiasm. He, nonetheless, expressed frustration over the lip service that many so-called business leaders such as Raul Concepcion of the Oil Price Watch, a supposed consumer protection watchdog, give toward this fight.
Thus, it remains with the electricity consumers to wage the struggle against the Power Based Rate and the empowered institutions that were set up to serve and protect them but have used that power to turn against the very people who have bankrolled those institutions.
As I made sense of the torrent of news reports of complaints from the business and labor sectors last week, the day before “Pedring” hit Metro Manila, an idea occurred to me: We, the anti-PBR/ERC-Meralco campaigners, must strike while the iron is hot. We should focus the diverse sources of rage into one central target that will force a dismantling of the PBR. And that can only be achieved by putting the Chief Executive on the spot.
We should hold Noynoy Aquino entirely responsible and demand a solution from him, just as what the TUCP, PhilExport, and others have done. But the action that I believe will achieve this is a vigil, a continuous one, right at the Freedom Park across Malacañang.
Freedom Park vigil
I broached this to several of our colleagues on the morning of “Pedring” and it caught the imagination of many, including Kit Kilatis, Jojo Borja, and company. So, while the country was busy coping with the floods and winds, we braved the elements to meet at this Quezon Ave. restaurant to discuss the more devastating power abuse that’s been wreaking havoc on our national economy and lives for over a decade now.
I had already been preparing the equipment for the vigil even as I discussed it with various people. I have started auditing the tents as well as tried securing the commitment of restaurants and other establishments near the Freedom Park to allow vigil participants access to their toilets, which is a very fundamental requirement. When I broached the idea over my radio program, taxi drivers, students, and others liked it as the 24/7 vigil affords them the convenience of going at their free time.
We’ll set up a tent, with streamers and placards calling for the junking of the PBR and EPIRA (Electric Power Industry Reform Act)--the law that privatized the power sector. We’ll expose the ongoing ERC-Meralco collusion of price gouging the nation on a massive scale and demand a return to the 12-percent RoRB.
Visit at your own pace
Of course, we would need a regular sound system and a core group to maintain the vigil while others are being mobilized to visit and show their support. Regular presscons will also have to be made. We should expect thousands to visit at their own pace--each instance becoming an opportunity to educate the public further on the issues.
It is most likely that we can set it up by the first week of October; and since the Freedom Park doesn’t require a permit to stage such activities, I don’t see how the authorities would be able to obstruct us.
Let’s get together and support this vigil with firm resolve against the ERC-Meralco “Performance Based Rape” of electricity consumers!
(Tune in to Sulo ng Pilipino/Radyo OpinYon, Monday to Friday, 5 to 6 p.m. on 1098AM; Talk News TV with HTL, Saturday, 8:15 to 9 p.m., with replay at 11 p.m., on GNN, Destiny Cable Channel 8; visit http://newkatipunero.blogspot.com for our articles plus TV and radio archives)
Herman Tiu Laurel
10/3-5/2011
My erstwhile colleague in OpinYon, Butch Junia, calls it the “Pahirap sa Bayan Rate.” But, given the fact that the Energy Regulatory Commission’s PBR or Performance Based Rate, a rate setting formula implemented in 2004, has given us the highest power rates in Asia, it’s more like a “Performance Based Rape.”
When the Supreme Court reaffirmed the now defunct 12-percent Return-on-Rate Base (RoRB) mechanism in 2003 and, along with it, disallowed the Manila Electric Co. or Meralco’s pass-on of its corporate income taxes to consumers, ordering the Commission on Audit to open the power company’s books--through which Meralco was found to have overcharged consumers in at least two test audits--the ERC, in a seeming act of defiance and showing everyone “the finger,” concocted the 15.8-percent PBR.
Drastic action needed
Fast forward to the present and everybody, including the normally quiet and conservative business and labor groups, is now openly clamoring for drastic action against the massive price gouging in the generation, transmission, and distribution of electricity.
The Philippine Chamber of Commerce of the Philippines (PCCI); the Philippine Steelmakers Association (PSA); the Philippine Exporters Confederation (PhilExport); the UP National Engineering Center; the Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (TUCP), including the Associated Labor Union (ALU); and, the Foundation for Economic Freedom (FEF), a group that ironically advocated privatization of the power industry, have all recently spoken out in a joint statement against the Philippines’ highest power cost in Asia. Specifically, they decried the absence of any “specific and strong action program or roadmap coming from the executive department” to address the current power rate crisis.
Democrito Mendoza of the TUCP, not always the most assertive labor leader, worked up the courage to “ask the Aquino administration to bring power rates down.” He was joined by the chief operating officer of PhilExport who, upon citing figures from the Department of Energy on the Philippines’ power rates at 24 US cents per kilowatt-hour compared to Thailand and Malaysia’s eight and seven US cents per kilowatt-hour, respectively, added that our power rates are “the biggest disincentive to the entry of new foreign direct investors to our shores.”
Meanwhile, Gerard R. Seno of the ALU demanded that Malacañang “make the necessary bold policy interventions, including the suspension and review of all pending power rate increase petitions in the Energy Regulatory Commission,” with TUCP’s Mendoza calling for the scrapping of the 15.8-percent PBR and the restoration of the 12-percent RoRB, stressing that high power rates eat up as much as 11 percent of workers’ income.
Concepcion’s lip service
Power company director Jojo Borja of Iligan Light, an advocate who has provided powerful, documented evidence against the ERC-Meralco tandem’s price gouging, called me about these news with enthusiasm. He, nonetheless, expressed frustration over the lip service that many so-called business leaders such as Raul Concepcion of the Oil Price Watch, a supposed consumer protection watchdog, give toward this fight.
Thus, it remains with the electricity consumers to wage the struggle against the Power Based Rate and the empowered institutions that were set up to serve and protect them but have used that power to turn against the very people who have bankrolled those institutions.
As I made sense of the torrent of news reports of complaints from the business and labor sectors last week, the day before “Pedring” hit Metro Manila, an idea occurred to me: We, the anti-PBR/ERC-Meralco campaigners, must strike while the iron is hot. We should focus the diverse sources of rage into one central target that will force a dismantling of the PBR. And that can only be achieved by putting the Chief Executive on the spot.
We should hold Noynoy Aquino entirely responsible and demand a solution from him, just as what the TUCP, PhilExport, and others have done. But the action that I believe will achieve this is a vigil, a continuous one, right at the Freedom Park across Malacañang.
Freedom Park vigil
I broached this to several of our colleagues on the morning of “Pedring” and it caught the imagination of many, including Kit Kilatis, Jojo Borja, and company. So, while the country was busy coping with the floods and winds, we braved the elements to meet at this Quezon Ave. restaurant to discuss the more devastating power abuse that’s been wreaking havoc on our national economy and lives for over a decade now.
I had already been preparing the equipment for the vigil even as I discussed it with various people. I have started auditing the tents as well as tried securing the commitment of restaurants and other establishments near the Freedom Park to allow vigil participants access to their toilets, which is a very fundamental requirement. When I broached the idea over my radio program, taxi drivers, students, and others liked it as the 24/7 vigil affords them the convenience of going at their free time.
We’ll set up a tent, with streamers and placards calling for the junking of the PBR and EPIRA (Electric Power Industry Reform Act)--the law that privatized the power sector. We’ll expose the ongoing ERC-Meralco collusion of price gouging the nation on a massive scale and demand a return to the 12-percent RoRB.
Visit at your own pace
Of course, we would need a regular sound system and a core group to maintain the vigil while others are being mobilized to visit and show their support. Regular presscons will also have to be made. We should expect thousands to visit at their own pace--each instance becoming an opportunity to educate the public further on the issues.
It is most likely that we can set it up by the first week of October; and since the Freedom Park doesn’t require a permit to stage such activities, I don’t see how the authorities would be able to obstruct us.
Let’s get together and support this vigil with firm resolve against the ERC-Meralco “Performance Based Rape” of electricity consumers!
(Tune in to Sulo ng Pilipino/Radyo OpinYon, Monday to Friday, 5 to 6 p.m. on 1098AM; Talk News TV with HTL, Saturday, 8:15 to 9 p.m., with replay at 11 p.m., on GNN, Destiny Cable Channel 8; visit http://newkatipunero.blogspot.com for our articles plus TV and radio archives)
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