Keep politics off local projects –VP
Vice President Leni Robredo prefers not to make a fuss over not being injvited to the turnover rites of the Calabanga Municipal Fish Port project, and stressed that what is important is that the project came to fruition.
"Ang importante nadala iyong tulong na kinakailangan (What was important was the much needed help was delivered)," Robredo said.
"Ang sa akin lang, pakiusap na, una sana, kung hindi naman makakatulong, huwag na lang pakialaman iyong mga tumutulong (For me, my plea, first, for those who can't help is they should not meddle with those are helping),” she added.
Robredo, who chairs the once ruling Liberal Party, shrugged off in a media briefing in Naga City last Friday an incident where she was not invited to the July 5 turnover of the fish port.
The Vice President was asked to comment on the matter after it came as a surprise to her fellow Bicolanas that she was absent at the event considering that she initiated and implemented the project.
It was Presidential Adviser for Bicol Affairs and Undersecretary Marvel Clavecilla, along with Presidential AntiCorruption Commission chair Dante Jimenez, who graced the turnover ceremony as witnesses.
For Robredo, it was no longer important whether she had been invited to the turnover of the project, but she spoke out against efforts to politicize the local projects that also include the Calabanga Infirmary.
The Vice President was also asked to react on the refusal of the provincial government to accept the delivery of equipment for the Calabanga Infirmary.
The Answering the Cry of the Poor (ANCOP) USA Foundation, through her office, donated the equipment to the infirmary.
Robredo is hopeful the issue will be immediately addressed.
"In a project like this, the public will benefit. This hospital, who will benefit from it? The people of Calabanga, not us," she said in Filipino.
"The election is still next year. They know all (projects) I was able to deliver there, they can't see my name. I'm not after the recognition," she added.