1996 Olympic silver medalist ‘Onyok’ still awaits incentives

TWENTY years after bringing home the silver medal from the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, light-flyweight boxer Mansueto “Onyok” Velasco is yet to receive the incentives the government had promised him.

Velasco said that a proposed law dictating to grant him incentives for his victory was filed and approved in the House of Representatives but unfortunately, the counterpart measure was not passed in the Senate because the chamber was facing a leadership issue that time.