Poe: Roxas could have done more when he was DOTC chief

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.