Vice President Leni Robredo branded as “ill-timed” the move to rename the Ninoy Aquino International Airport in the midst of the country’s battle against the virulent COVID-19.
“Number one, it’s ill-timed. Number two, alam naman natin why it was named Ninoy Aquino International Airport. So iyong tanong , where is our sense of history?” she added.
On Thursday, presidential son and House Deputy Speaker Paolo Duterte, Marinduque Rep. Lord Allan Velasco, and ACT-CIS Rep. Eric Yap have filedFor the three congressmen, changing the name of NAIA will make the airport “easily be identified as the international doorway of the country, in view of it being in Filipino language and branding it as the international airport of the Philippines.”
In 1987, the Manila International Airport was renamed Ninoy Aquino International Airport in honor of the late senator who was assassinated in its tarmac on August 21, 1983, as he was disembarking from a plane that came from the United States where he was exiled. Aquino was a fierce critic of the Marcos administration and a stalwart of the opposition at the time.“Ngayon pa talaga na dapat all hands on deck tayo na nagtutulong-tulong para masugpo iyong pandemya. Ngayon pa iyon naiisipan,” she added.
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