A Metropolitan Manila Development Authority official is now suspended after he allegedly wrongfully named Senator Bong Revilla as a violator of the EDSA Busway rule.
Eimor Santos reports.
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00:08 Based on hearsay, you will destroy the senator?
00:12 Sir, I have no intention of destroying you.
00:14 What about our small countrymen?
00:16 Sir, I have no intention of destroying you. Why will I do that?
00:20 Why did you mention my name in the media?
00:22 Sir, that's what I'm trying to verify.
00:24 I hope you verify it first.
00:25 Like a scene from a movie, actor turned Senator Bong Revillas
00:30 called MMDA official Bong Nebrija for allegedly naming him
00:35 as a violator of the EDSA busway rule.
00:38 MMDA officials went to the Senate to personally explain to Revillas
00:43 that it was the driver of the apprehended car with a plate number 8
00:47 that dropped his name.
00:49 This information was passed on to Nebrija by an enforcer.
00:53 When Colonel Bong made a mistake, he told him
00:58 that if Senator Revillas is there, don't close the door.
01:04 Let him run away.
01:08 Unfortunately, there was a media next to Colonel Bong
01:13 that heard that. That's what spread.
01:17 Revillas demanded a public apology.
01:20 I already apologized. I'm really sorry.
01:24 I already apologized earlier. I already made an apology.
01:27 We're just human. We all make mistakes.
01:30 If my enforcer made a mistake, as the commander of the task force,
01:34 the buck ends with me.
01:36 Acting MMDA Chairman Don Artes also apologized.
01:40 He says to give way to the investigation, Nebrija will be suspended
01:44 as head of the task force special operations unit beginning Thursday.
01:49 The preventive suspension can last from two weeks to a month.
01:53 We will face violations because why would the name of the arrested leak?
02:00 Which is not right.
02:02 And second, even if someone namedropped, it should not be leaked.
02:09 That's our policy.
02:10 It should be caught.
02:12 Yes.
02:13 My instructions, even if it's namedropped, should not be allowed.
02:21 After airing his grievances, Revilla accepted the apology.
02:26 It's okay if I'm the only one who will be bashed.
02:30 The whole family will be bashed.
02:33 But it's okay. I accept your apology.
02:37 I'll leave it to you, Chairman, whatever your decision to Colonel Bong Nebrija.
02:44 I hope you understand why my reaction is like this.
02:50 Because if you were to step in my place, you will do the same thing.
02:54 You will be made a son of a bitch.
02:58 Revilla says he will no longer move to recall the MMDA's budget in plenary,
03:03 saying it's not the entire agency at fault.
03:06 He says he only said this out of sheer frustration, this being the news that greeted him this morning.
03:13 He says he has "phobia" about being wrongfully accused after being jailed and cleared for plunder.
03:20 I spent 4 years and 6 months in prison, but the people who blamed me were already called.
03:26 That's it. It's that simple.
03:28 Based on the Transportation Department's rules,
03:31 those authorized to use the busway are buses allowed by the LTFRB, ambulances, fire trucks,
03:37 and police vehicles that are on duty, and those used for the maintenance of the busway project.
03:43 Exemptions also include the Philippine President, Vice President, Senate President,
03:48 House Speaker, and Chief Justice to assist them in the performance of their duties.
03:53 Amor Santos, CNN, Philippines.