SENATOR Joseph Victor Ejercito has asked the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) to stop distributing firetrucks to cities and instead make a priority poor municipalities in the country that do not even have one.

Ejercito, during a recent hearing of the Senate finance committee on the proposed 2017 budget of the DILG, questioned officials of the Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP) on why it turned over brand-new Rosenbauer firetrucks to cities that are capable of buying their own firetrucks when there are more than 300 4th and 5th class municipalities in the country that do not even have a single firetruck.

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