SENATOR Ferdinand “Bongbong” R. Marcos, Jr. the other day urged the government to help Filipina inventor Aisa Mijeno realize her group’s goal of mass producing its salt-water powered LED lamp invention.

Marcos made the exhortation in sadness. He observed that the Philippine government has done nothing to support Mijeno’s invention, while an American, US President Barack Obama himself, and a Chinese, the billionaire Jack Ma who founded and heads the wealthy and extremely successful internet giant Alibaba Group, had extolled our compatriot and raved about the greatness of her invention.

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