Energy Regulatory Commission Chair Jose Vicente B. Salazar (center), shown in the agency’s website photo with Commissioners Geronimo D. Sta. Ana, Alfredo J. Non, Gloria Victoria C. Yap-Taruc and Josefina PatriciaM. Asirit, says that he respects the president’s call for their resignation and that he would “definitely take the appropriate actions that would protect the organization.”
The House of Representatives is set to start an investigation of alleged corruption at the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) next week.
Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez advised the energy committee to look into the controversy that followed the Nov. 9 suicide of ERC director Francisco Jose Villa Jr.
“We’re already studying that. I already advised the committee on energy to look into how we can address the problem at the ERC,” Alvarez told reporters late Tuesday.—VINCE F. NONATO