“I want to pay for the old man’s bail. What court?” Guanzon said in her tweet. “I have assigned a lawyer to coordinate with the lawyer of Piston 6. I hope he can post bail soon. The elderly’s condition is pitiful.” READ:
The jeepney drivers were calling out the government for not allowing jeepneys to operate again two months after the lockdown rendered them jobless and as commuters endured the pain brought by lack of transportation to go to work and home.
After enhanced community quarantine was imposed on Metro Manila because of the COVID-19 pandemic, nearly all work, except for those tagged as essential, had ground to a halt. The ECQ, government lingo for lockdown, however, left people like drivers without any income for at least two months because they relied on daily earnings and cannot shift to work-from-home arrangements available to other workers.
Social aid was provided, but drivers wanted to return to fending for themselves as the cash distributed by the government was barely enough to put food on their tables for more than two months. Despite the transition to GCQ, supposedly the looser form of ECQ, the national government stood firm on banning “traditional” jeepneys, like the ones being driven by the arrested drivers, from the road. The government reason? Seats in traditional jeepneys could not be configured to prevent coronavirus transmission.
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