SENATOR Grace Poe believes that former Secretary Mar Roxas could have done more to address the problems plaguing the country’s railways when he was still at the helm of the Department of Transportation and Communications (DOTC).
“I think more could have been done. I think our people deserved better,” Poe said when asked during a presidential forum in Makati City on Wednesday if she thinks Roxas did enough when he was head of the DOTC.
“And I think that it’s really a matter of vision, planning and execution and leadership that could have spelled the difference,” she added.
The lady senator was initially reluctant to make her own assessment of Roxas’ performance when she was first asked if she considered him a good manager.
“I think that your outputs and accomplishments should speak for itself. I think that the people can determine their performance,” she said.
“‘I’ve been very fair in the hearing that we conducted in the DOTC, of course Secretary Mar was the DOTC Secretary and we know that we have some questions about what happened during his term that spelled out what we’re now experiencing,” she further said.
Poe investigated the MRT problems as chair of the Senate subcommittee on public services.