MIAA chief Honrado: Resignation not the solution

MANILA, Philippines - Manila International Airport Authority (MIAA) General Manager Jose Angel Honrado on Thursday insisted that he will not resign from his post unless President Benigno Aquino III asks him to.

"When the appointing authority says that you're not capable anymore of doing your job and he tells you to go, then you should go not a minute longer," Honrado said in an interview with ANC's Headstart.

The MIAA chief stressed that resignation is not the solution to the "laglag-bala" or bullet planting incidents in the country's airport terminals.

"I don't run away from a good fight," Honrado said.

He added that he will only step down from his position if he will feel that he is no longer contributing to the "Daang Matuwid" or straight path principle of the Aquino administration.

Honrado said that he has no authority over all the 22 government agencies operating in airports.

"They operate on their own mandates. Some are mandated by law, some are mandated by executive orders like the (Office of Transportation Security), some are mandated by other legal basis," the MIAA chief said.

Honrado assured that the government is trying to address the "laglag-bala" issue "as squarely as possible."

Transportation Secretary Joseph Emilio Abaya earlier said that the reports on the cases of bullet planting in airport terminals "have been blown out of proportion."

Meanwhile, the Department of Justice has ordered the National Bureau of Investigation to look into the bullet planting incidents at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport.

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